Henry—
You’re a little guy right now, but you’ve already got a skill that will help you your whole life. You don’t just play with something and move on. You stop, you turn it over, you try to figure out what’s going on inside. If it doesn’t work, you don’t shrug—you try again. You figure out how to fix it.
Not everyone does that.
And it’s going to matter more and more as you get older.
The world you’re growing up into is going to change a lot before you’re grown. By the time you’re old enough to decide what you want to do, a lot of what people are preparing for today will be different, and some of it will be gone. The truth is, nobody really knows what it’s going to look like—not even the people who sound like they do.
So don’t worry too much about having a perfect plan.
What matters more is understanding how things actually work.
Because the world you’ll live in will make it very easy not to ask. Things will just work. You’ll push a button and a car will show up with no driver. You’ll ask a question and get an answer right away. You’ll walk into places where everything adjusts itself—lights, heat, doors—without anyone touching a thing.
Most of the time, it’ll all seem fine. Easy. Good enough.
And that’s where people start to stop thinking. Not because they’re lazy, but because they don’t have to think anymore.
But you won’t. You’ll want to know why.
When something doesn’t quite make sense, don’t let it go. Stay with it a little longer. Look it up.