Progress is Enjoyable In Itself

I worked full time in data science during my last 2 years of undergrad and I'm pretty sure the process to pull this off is reproducible.

If you hammer prerequisite concepts/skills into your long-term memory, get it really solid and easy to retrieve, then you can lessen the load on your working memory, keep it below capacity, avoid getting "broken," and keep up with the game.

When it looks like someone progressed so fast they “must” have taken a shortcut, what really happened is they speed-ran the foundations.

Nobody is born cracked.

Why jumping the gun on complexity leads to compounding struggle.