[danabramov]

It helped me immensely when I realized

    obj.method();

is a sugar for

    obj.method.call(obj);

Similarly, this picture helped me understand `bind`:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/StZOr.png

The a-ha moment for JS is when you realize it's a way simpler language than you thought it was.

[jameshart]

Yes - the trick with JS is to realize it has this functional core, and every object has an __proto__ property, and then most of its syntax is syntactic sugar over the top of that.

   new method()

is syntactic sugar for something like

   var _tmp = {};
   _tmp.__proto__ = method.prototype;
   _tmp.call(method);