My dad was a big (6’3” – 215 lb) guy and we spent a lot of time sailing together. On his big ol’ steel ketch, there was stuff I couldn’t reach, and things I wasn’t strong enough to do (I was a small person). When I would get frustrated at my limitations, and complain, he would say: “Don’t tell me why you can’t, show me how you can.”
I’ve carried that with me for life, it has always helped me to look at things from a different perspective, and often with an engineers eye.