How it all got started

[Turboconqueringmegaeagle]

Really enjoyed reading this thread especially as ive been feeling my years recently but being of the lego technics generation, reading stories from mechano boys has made me feel like a spring chicken!
At the risk of sounding like a palm reader i think How it started for a lot of us was decided before we were making conscious decisions, I have young lads come through my work as school or collage work experience, some were always meant to use their hands but never knew it, others want to but no amount of encouragement can replace the enthusiasm with fineness.
A lot of people have blamed or thanked their fathers for their desire to spend endless hours and quite often money learning and producing things that only ever leads to the exact same process, my dad certainly did this and so did his, my dads brother, my uncle takes things to a biblical level but the more time i spend with youngsters who are from such mixed backgrounds sometimes with no fathers, the more certain i am that its a genetic blessing (or disability my girlfriend says)
I think it is a possibility that nature Just decided some of us would get more excited about tool catalogues than football shirts and drum sets and our experiences did little more than decide what particular flavour of making we would favour.