You are given some advantages from the people around you. My father was a construction worker. He also was a hobbyist technical person, and besides the obvious

You are given some advantages from the people around you. My father was a construction worker. He also was a hobbyist technical person, and besides the obvious of introducing me from computer to computer since a very young age, he also taught me how to think in ways that are very advantageous for thinking technically, rigorously, and logically. Education is important and the people you have around you either compete against information or reinforce it. Construction is mechanical work. It operates in accordance to rules that are easy to observe and aren't subject to chaotic, dynamic shifts. It is a literal concrete foundation of how to build things. Don't excuse my puns, they are intentional. Some people simply don't have enough information in the background to reinforce one way of reasoning versus another, and lots of these kinds of things can direct what path you wind up traveling in, especially when as a child, you don't have the awareness to understand how world views get constructed, because you haven't seen enough cycles of it happening, nor had the time to think about it.