Zen Scanner, your approach is the precise one that my DD seems to have used from birth. It was downright eerie to have a 4yo summing up (correctly) the M.O. and inner motivations of adults around her.

She knows people-- and WOW, does she ever have leadership potential-- but she spends at least 90% of her time studying PEOPLE/SYSTEMS, not the topic at hand.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.