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> That might work well for your crud day job, but for your own projects, why not learn from the mistakes of others and not your own?

There's value in learning from others, but in general, people learn more quickly from trying things right away.

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In general, you have to understand the mistakes to learn from them. Often, we don't even understand what someone else was trying to do. Much less what their mistake was.

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That's true, and a major benefit of trying something is that it can correct for overconfidence and expose specific gaps in understanding (so you can seek out explanations, or puzzle it out)