I have insane tech support mojo

My boss got a new PC and within minutes I was explaining how to import her Outlook contacts from her old computer. A coworker was going on vacation and I had to show her how to set up an away message. A WP.com user couldn't see images and Firefox and I helped her fix her preferences so that they were no longer blocked. The friend of the author of a blog that I read had display problems and I explained how to change her Blogger settings to fix them.

This is the insane part: I really had no idea how to do these things before I helped these people. The answers just come to me, like I have some kind of perverse computer/internet intuition. I don't even use Outlook — how did I now how to import comments and set up an away message? I've only been using a Mac for about a year, and I've never had to wipe out any preferences. How did I know what to do, and how did I now that it would work and not make things work?

I'm not complaining. I'm glad that things "just work" whenever I try to fix them. But I'd like this talent to migrate away from the computer and towards the more prickly things in my life, like dynamic optimization and econometric theory.