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I have no idea. I also learned to play "Sweet Baby James" note by note within one week of picking up a guitar. I was hired as a salesperson at a printing company and 3 months later was lead programmer. Like Ricky says, intense but short bursts of total concentration, followed by a period of satisfaction and contentment, which slides down the bell curve toward boredom and looking for new things to try. I'm thinking, origami.

I have done a lot of personal research and study on how the brain works. I have a vested interest, having suffered a head trauma some years ago, and now going through a possibly related neurological condition. One of the books I read considered the concept of memory from the viewpoint of several different researchers. One of the things that stuck with me was a neurochemist who thought he'd found a chemical that caused physical changes in the neurons, and was researching the hypothesis that they could be the mechanism for forming new memories. Then he very humbly admitted that his life's work could all be on the wrong track. What chemical reactions in the brain make memories vs, something else entirely? Who knows?

He gave the example of aliens trying to understand human technology and engineering. The first thing they come across is a child's solar toy in the window, which spins because one side of the toy's pieces are painted white, the other black. AH! Human technology works because of COLORS! Then they go off and study John Deere tractors (green), etc. A complete wrong track based on an, as it turns out, unfortunate initial observation.

My point: don't ask me how memory and learning work. No one knows.