my Cousin

 My cousin said to me: "I don't have much mechanical skills." I said in reply to him: "NO. That's not true! You just had no one to teach you." This was true because his parents got a divorce when he was 5 years old. So, even though he has been a very successful lawyer all his adult life he always believed he wasn't mechanical which was never really true to begin with.

I had a different experience because my father liked to build things and to work on cars. He convinced me building my own home (which i eventually did) and working on my own cars and trucks and motocycles was the way to go because it was much less expensive. Also, my grandfather built a cabin on his 1800 acre Mining claim in Idaho near Elk City, Idaho.

So, I had someone to train me in doing mechanical things like working on cars and building houses and stuff like that growing up. Then my father and I built his retirement home on weekends from 1968 to 1980 when he and my mother retired there. Then I built my own A-Frame house on 2 1/2 acres I bought at 4000 feet on Mt. Shasta.

And before this I was taught the Electrical Trade of wiring houses and building by my father from when I was 10 to 17 years old and I also while going to college took a year off and worked with him as an electrician too in Los Angeles County in 1969 when I was 21.

So, most of the time it isn't that people "aren't mechanical" it's just that they never had anyone to teach them what they needed to know about Cars and Trucks and motorcycles and building houses.

This is my experience because I was taught to use a screwdriver and a hammer well before I was 10 years old by my father. This physical dexterity when trained allows you to build almost anything or work on almost anything ongoing in your life including fixing anything electrical or plumbing or mechanical in your home or apartment the rest of your life.

You just need someone to teach you what you need to know at a young enough age to get good at it.