>I can take a much less intelligent military soldier with no prior programming experience and teach them to master this skill within four hours of education, and their corresponding output will be vastly superior to that of the experienced programmer who cannot perform that sort of navigational effort.

I didn't express myself well. Are there any specific exercises or concepts I should focus on? I struggle with this too. This made me wonder what would I practice in 4 hours that would lead to such outcomes.

I recognize my difficulties and I have tried to find solutions.

Is your method similar to this? https://www.amazon.com/Processing-Recursively-Structured-Dat...