As a kid I couldn't have been less interested in Rubik's cubes but buying the transformers toys with the most complex transformations I could find and then doing them w/o the instruction manual was my shit lmao
See what you gotta understand about me is you have to dress up whatever intellectual effort you want me to do in something cool that I'm interested in. That's why I'll watch even weird difficult arthouse movies as long as they have some kind of scifi or paranormal twist, but I cannot be passed to watch the 373747447 drama about how hard some random dude's life is and how shitty his relationships are or whatever the fuck normal dramas are about lol