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I think it's because despite the fact that programmers have to deal with complex problems, we fail to see complexity in a lot of things. So it's very easy to dismiss things or ideas as useless and apply cynicism to everything. For instance,when I started managing people, I thought that the journey from ' I don't know it' to ' I know it' is as simple as getting from A to B. So I was always very surprised when someone would come to me asking 'why is that?' or ' how do I do it?' or simply saying ' I wasn't trained on this' or ' nobody told me about it'. At first I was perplexed why people don't just read about the problem and they'll figure it out. But for a lot of people it's not from A to B. It's more like A to G to F to B to R to A and then to S. Or not even moving from A. Things like motivation, hunger for knowledge kicks in and so on. I often sit in meetings with people that have very different backgrounds, positions and usually approach things differently. It's fascinating to see how some subjects get discussed and I end up seeing way more angles than I initially thought about.