As a full time professional Martial Artist, I witnessed this rise first hand with both students as well as a nephew. (don't get me started where this originated).

However the focus on something they enjoy lasers in far beyond us mortal beings. They are savants in their own ways... so maybe, just maybe... we were the ones with dulling factors injected into us comparatively, that the younger generation is growing out of.

There is a growing number of very enlightened children these days.