I've always had a mind that worked that way - I can imagine how something works or could work before looking up how it actually does work. But there's no real b

I've always had a mind that worked that way - I can imagine how something works or could work before looking up how it actually does work. But there's no real benefit to thinking that way in my experience. Thinking differently has only been a career impediment or gotten on my teachers nerves for being "smart" in my experience. For example, as a young kid I saw a geometric ball made up of hinges that allow it to expand and contract, and in some stages it looks a little like a gear. So then I started wondering if you change gears instead of switching gears in a car. Then a decade or so later I started seeing CVT transmissions in cars, which is the same concept where you can change the size/ratio by expanding or contracting the roller instead of switching gears.