Fixing Things Before I Understood Them

When I think about it now, it's funny.

I spent a lot of time fixing things before I actually understood how they worked.

My mum's Nokia phone was only the beginning.

If something stopped working around me, my first reaction wasn't to call someone else.

It was to press buttons.

Open settings.

Restart it.

Try something different.

Sometimes I made things worse.

Sometimes I accidentally solved the problem.

I rarely knew why it worked.

I only knew that it worked.

Looking back, I don't think I was learning technology.

I was learning confidence.

Every small problem I solved quietly taught me something much bigger:

"It's okay if you don't know everything before you begin."

That lesson stayed with me.

Don't panic.

Start somewhere.

Change one thing.

Observe.

Learn.

Repeat.

Most people think confidence comes after experience.

For me, it came from hundreds of tiny experiments that nobody ever noticed.

Maybe that's why I still enjoy solving problems today.

Not because I always know the answer.

But because I've learned that understanding usually comes after curiosity, not before.