A few different things: - Growing up with a maker dad and an artist mom. I would routinely come home from school and my Dad would be doing something like buil

A few different things: - Growing up with a maker dad and an artist mom. I would routinely come home from school and my Dad would be doing something like building a robot mouse trap with an IR tripwire, and my mom would be on the phone working connections to get a radio interview to talk about a new project. Nothing seemed out of bounds or too hard to try doing yourself. - Studying music, and learning that nothing is objectively difficult, just relatively unfamiliar. Learning that any skill is attainable through the right kind of practice. - Joining a 2-person start up and growing with it through to an exit. Learning there's no magic to a successful company or project, it's about solving a series of practical problems like anything else.