He mastered reading at an early age during preschool and got attached to owning books to a degree that his mother had to designate specific periods for him to read outside school material because he neglected his schoolbooks. He was also fond of innovations and the way things worked, he once said in an interview: “children were buying toys to have fun with them, and I was buying them to take them apart to see how they worked from the inside”. As well as saying: “In my childhood, I fell in love with the stories of inventors, discoverers, and the greats so much that I thought they were family members” in an article titled “the prince of inventors”.