When designing a conceptual system, you must start with a perfectly empty "box" and take great, loving care to what is placed in there. For example, I take my time before I accept something as true if it is going into the box. I take great care in gathering my materials from the most credible, honest sources and I naturally plan out the build both as I go and with my eye on the long-term. The more material (information) I can go through, the better I become in my building.
Descartes himself believed the perfect city could only be built from scratch, adding onto structures (systems) was too messy for him. He preferred to study all the systems he could and then go about building his own (box) cities after he had gathered what he needed. I love studying his building methods.
In my boxes, I am free to attack my own structures. I liken it to me taking a bat and beating my own structure after making new changes to ensure it remains sound, time-and-time again, I test the same parts. I tear it down often, sometimes happily. Everytime I learn or relearn, I go back to those old neurons and test my framework again. I have difficulty making short neural connections, such short bunching helps with memorization. I figure I developed my methods of long neural connections to get around it. My brain developed under trauma. Possibly, requiring my need to create "boxes" to understand the world. Which, I keep getting is a weird way to think about the world- as systems placed into boxes. Are you understanding me at all?
This does have it's perks, I can easily spot inconsistencies and patterns in other systems that I did not build, if I can pay attention and actually understand it to begin with (like physics has had me thrashing around for 2 years now, I cannot understand it, so it is pure agony for me). The problem is that I'm too lazy to build boxes for everything and end up missing the big things!
When I was little, I called the "box" a map to try to explain things to adults, and also used a "book" metaphor in my frustrations to communicate my thoughts! :)
But, maybe not so different from everyone else at all? Surely, learning is a purely creative act for most?