The programming mindset

How can I know if I'm too stupid for programming/engineering/maths?

Is it true you need a good memory and be good at just swallowing lots of apparently random technical stuff?

For example BSD sockets. To "learn" them I guess you just have to memorize all these syscalls, the whole connection model. What does it even mean in a deeper sense? I don't know.

At one point you just have to have faith and be good at remembering lots of formulas, how do you do that

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Things aren't stupid. People are stupid.

That being said, the field which requires the most brilliance is theoretical physics. The true test of a person's cleverness is his ability to create mathematical abstractions from observations of the physical world.