[csours]

> "What stops you, I think, is a combination of not really believing you’ll get it and not really caring. Is that too harsh – or is it somewhere close to the truth?"

This reminds me of the curse of working with really good senior engineers. They already know the answers, they've already solved the puzzles. It can be very easy to just defer to them all the time.

If you are a senior engineer who really understands a system, you need to be conscious of this effect if you ever want someone else to start learning your system.

[dfxm12]

In my experience, people underestimate their abilities and are so afraid to mess things up, even in a preprod environment, that they don't even try. I try to encourage people and let them know they can't mess anything up, but like the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. Some people get it faster than others.

There's also the pressure from above to fix things quickly, meaning some people don't have time to really explore and learn and need to be given answers...

[alostpuppy]

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