My wife and I excelled in engineering drawing in school. But she still has great difficulty in keeping up with me in carpentry and trying to visualize how joint

My wife and I excelled in engineering drawing in school. But she still has great difficulty in keeping up with me in carpentry and trying to visualize how joints come together. I might have some hindsight and confirmation bias of course. And while what the author is saying about taking up engineering courses like these could be true to a varying extent, but a RCT is necessary to ascertain what sticks and what does not and how much.