Are you able to elaborate?

Its hard to do so.

It felt like a mental "click" but not like you get when you have been trying to solve a puzzle... it felt like a mental " gear change ".

My thought processes changed order or priority, Things that I felt were important before were suddenly less important and I think I things from a different angle (not just life stuff but problem solving approaches.).

its really hard to describe.

What I can say is that having a second didnt do a damned thing... lol whatever change was going to happen only happened on the first.

> Things that I felt were important before were suddenly less important

I definitely felt a change in perspective like this. Sitting in a 1hr long meeting, going over something which could be done in 10 mins, and the whole time thinking "none of this even matters, there's a human life at home which I helped create!".

For me.. this took around 8 months.. I was so overwrought with stress that I was numb to anything else.

Do you mean like parental instinct? When you are in 'father mode', you physically and mentally geared up and ready to take up the role.

My first thoughts were that it was like that, but I realized after a few weeks that I was thinking like that at work as well, when nowhere near the kid.

I think you may have got better at managing both your tasks and time :)

Very possible that been a father cornered you to think more pragmatically in daily life, and that translates to how you do things at work.