Comment by aintitthetruitt

I think this is less an age thing and more of a combined curiosity and systems understanding and thinking thing.

I've noticed the same effect, but the lines it always seems to fall on are if the person fails one (or heaven forbid both) of these: 1) are you curious about how your tools work and how to get better using them? 2) can you hold the mental map of both what you are solving and how your tools work in your head, and explain how information flows.

There is also a dash of: 3) are you willing to try something, even if it has a bit of a screwup risk, just to see what happens?