Same. I generally prefer to see the forest first, then understand how all the different trees fit into it. Similarly when looking at a map, I very quickly want to zoom out and see where in the bigger scheme of things is the small thing I’m looking at situated.

Same with more complex concepts in math or CS - it helps me understand and retain them better if I know where they fit into a bigger scheme. Category theory is particularly interesting in this regard, as it serves to connect different branches of math into a mesh of Categories and Functors describing their interrelationships.