What about people who can break anything?
“What about people who can break anything?”
those people are important also
I am fortunate that I can do both break and fix.
I must have driven my parents crazy because I had a habit of taking things apart to see how they worked, then I never put them back together.
One time I took the family television apart because it was causing interference to an AM radio that I depended on. I attempted to shield some of the internal wiring with aluminum foil, and made an easily corrected mistake that rendered the set non-operational. They had to call a repair man to take care of the problem.
I'm amazed they never punished me for it, maybe my scientist dad saw in me a future engineer (which I became), and wanted to push me in that direction. For Christmas one year, instead of giving me normal kid stuff, he gave me an assortment of tools, batteries, wire, switches, and light bulbs and let me loose to play and experiment. I still have most of those tools.
Another time, my dad bought a new car. This being the late 50s, it had enormous tail fins. I looked at them and told him that they were a waste of material, pretty remarkable for 9 year old kid!
Even today, I see the results of other "fixers", some of which were disastrous. I bought an old tube amplifier at a flea market to restore, and I discovered that a "Mr. Fixit" had been into it and fixed a blown fuse by bridging it with some heavy wire. That destroyed the power transformer at many times the cost of fixing the real problem.
The best kind are those who can "break" things without actually breaking them. Just long enough to miss out on that important 3-hour meeting or team-building session. Sorry, Boss, our invoice tracking system is down, gonna be about a 3-hour fix.