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by mdiesel 302 days ago
The old saying "they've forgotten more about X than you'll ever know" is very true. A professional quite often has forgotten what it was like to be a beginnner, making them both very knowledgeable about a topic but also very likely to give dangerous advice to a beginner.
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This is absolutely correct.

I must confess that I have done exactly that.