Nope I thought myself. It's more persuasive revelation when you discovered the power of it by yourself than having someone teach it to you. I remember the moment it all started "clicking" and you feel like any software problem is now within your reach (which I give a ton of credit to SICP for teaching me the power of abstraction).
Very true. The "aha!" moment is quite the powerful motivator, had one at work last week on a project that I was stuck on and it resulted in me staying after work for 2 extra hours once I figured out what everything was doing (inherited some very old code to troubleshoot).
Happy holidays, friend!
Are you my systems design instructor? My systems design instructor said the exact same thing in college