Just the opposite for me.
I'm only now learning mechanical stuff. Like this year, first time I changed a tire on my own.
But poetry? Stories? Plays? I can do that almost on the spot.
“…Judge not what a man has done, but judge what he could have done if he was a different bloke altogether. For art thou a leper? And a leper can changeth his spots…” --Rudy Wade, Misfits (Series 4, Episode 8)