We'll never know for sure, but would you likely have turned into an artist if your parents had surrounded you with paints and canvases instead? Would you have possibly turned into a tinkerer/problem-solver "of some sort" even if your parents hadn't surrounded you with computers?
It's interesting that you say your parents "encouraged" your nerdiness and didn't say they "instilled" nerdiness in you. It implies there was something innate to start with.
Perhaps there is a set of genes linking curiosity, detail-orientation, problem solving that are at the core of people that become engineers, programmers etc?
It's interesting that you say your parents "encouraged" your nerdiness and didn't say they "instilled" nerdiness in you. It implies there was something innate to start with.
Perhaps there is a set of genes linking curiosity, detail-orientation, problem solving that are at the core of people that become engineers, programmers etc?