Perhaps the greatest gift I ever received was given to me by my father. I'm sure he didn't realize it at the time, it is just part of who he is, but my brothers and I all now possess this same gift.
When we were children we watched (and often helped) our father and learned. He always assumed that he could do pretty much anything that came his way, whether it was fixing cars, the house, or assembling some new gadget he had purchased. If it was something he didn't know anything about, he might buy a book on the subject and use it for reference. It wasn't just his assumption that he could do it that taught us, it was also what became sort of a standing joke: he would say to us "When all else fails, read the instructions!"
