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The article focuses on the author's childhood experience of fixing a broken ashtray, highlighting the joy found in tinkering, failing, and learning. Drawing inspiration from books advocating for embracing failures as learning opportunities, the author reflects on the freedom and joy in experimenting without fear of consequence, emphasizing the valuable lessons gained from trying, failing, and ultimately learning through hands-on experience.

The author challenges engineers to be unbound by starting with adventuresome seeking, seeing and seizing of opportunities. He stresses the need for engineers to have an appetite for solving problems and to have an open mind and discerning eyes to see opportunities. He discusses the importance of productive imagination and the art of changing perspective to the probability of attaining success when seizing opportunities.