I don’t think they have found brain structures specialised for coding VB or placing inductors. They and you knew how to do these things well because of learning and practice.
I don’t think they have found brain structures to explain most of what makes us individual. When I was 13 I was exposed to amateur radio. I immediately decided that I wanted to become an EE and I also learned Morse code in 1-2 days. Looking at this objectively, it does not make any obvious sense. I had no idea what I was getting into! But the stuff fascinated me and in 57 years I have never regretted those decisions. I dare say that there are plenty of people who would not have given those pursuits a second glance based upon the exposure that I had. And for further reinforcement, read about studies of identical twins raised apart. (Where they grew up in separate families.) The sorts of preferences which are attributable to genes are truly uncanny. (Smoking the same brand of cigarettes for example) Here is one example:
I am quite sure that to a large degree, the way that I am (and this will be true for most of us) was largely (not completely) hard-wired. For me, it is transistors and diodes instead of lines of code.
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Maybe opportunities, time, obligations and interest have some bearing also?
Maybe you may have become a brilliant software developer had you never been exposed to amateur radio.
I think the current thinking is half nature and half nurture. So there is still a lot of room for self-development. There are probably half a dozen other professions I could have been good at though they lean towards the analytical. Besides, such beliefs tend to be self-limiting. Instead of “I’m no good at this”, a more fruitful approach is “What skills and knowledge do I need to acquire to master this?” Whether it’s worth the effort or if you really want to, is a different question.
Thanks for your vote of confidence. It would not be impossible. But…why do I find this interesting and not that? I think that is another side of the same question. I was never good at focusing on subjects which were not interesting.
And I did not say that genes were the whole picture, just that they seem to be a big piece of it.
Sounds reasonable. But I did make a concerted effort to get somewhere with VB, and I just did not get far with it. Some people are “polymaths”. Perhaps I could have designed mechanical devices instead of electronic ones. But somehow, software never seemed to “click” for me.
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Interesting discussion, although off-topic.
If have written Pros and cons of using a VCS (git etc.) with KiCad but it doesn’t actually prove why one should choose a vcs over some other, simpler revisioning method.
It is true that a KiCad user would need only about 1% of the features of a full blown modern VCS, and the most important features of a modern distributed system would never be used.
Personally I just find “invisible older versions” good for me. But it’s not an objective, neutral reason.
I would say that if you find the proposed reasons interesting and you have any possible reason to get familiar with a VCS, go ahead, but if you dislike the idea for starters and don’t have any other specific reason, go for a copy based system.
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What ESL means? Something like English Language. Google suggests that it is a kind of English Lessons.
It means English Second Language. That you are no native speaker.
That is it!!
It also means equivalent series inductance but I do not think that is what I intended here…if I remember correctly. (??)
I have a lot of respect for all of you who need to be multilingual for a variety of reasons. I know a few words of Spanish and also Mandarin but I am monolingual.
My first thought was Equivalent Serial Inductance 
We in Poland were compulsorily taught Russian. So there was a time when I knew Russian better than English. Even during my studies, I wrote a matrix rotation or FFT program on the basis of a Russian book on algorithms.
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I written previous post and than read it.
I’d appreciate any comments about my mistakes, but I can’t promise to fast avoid my typical mistakes. I learn such things rather slowly, very slowly.
Don’t worry about it, your writing is fine; I think of it as a little mental workout. I remember with amusement another poster’s request for a solar pastor which is readily understood from the latin origin of the word for shepherd or herdsman.
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I was going to say similar. Actually I sometimes find myself guilty of doing what I observe you doing…but I have no excuse. That is typing the wrong word when two words are pronounced similar. My only solution is careful proof-reading of what I write, but usually that only comes too late. 
When one is hungry, frites may be preferable to files. 
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Agree completely.
In fact, sometimes on this forum, I feel a little inferior being only monolingual.
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In Polish ‘Electronic shepherd’ = ‘Pastuch elektroniczny’.
But ‘ch’ you don’t read like you expect. Rather closer to single ‘h’.
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@Piotr
The definition of pastor as shepherd (or leader) of a flock has fallen into disuse outside religious groups.
Pastor, outside religion, is more generally thought of as “just a title” before a persons’ name.
When the thread asking about a solar pastor was posted, my immediate thought was “sun priest”… whatever is he writing about?
It took some time and thought and brainpower to realize “solar pastor” meant “solar powered electric fence energizer”.
Obviously, @retiredfeline , just as I, saw some humor in the differences of meanings and translations between languages.
I just stole the electronic shepherd saying and posted on twitter Thank you
great set of replies - extremely helpful …
tho - this leads me back to a few background questions I have about what the software 'expects" from Project Folders which I should ask about in a separate thread.
again, thanks all for providing such explicit details !!
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