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I myself have also learned a lot from this. But I also see people doing it whilst they feel more pressure and less space to ask for help. That can lead to a non helpful state of a very quick shallow search for solutions. Anything complicated gets dismissed as 'will take too long', and you end up with completely suboptimal bodged solutions that, if anything, taught the wrong thing.

Learning to do things properly by banging your head against the wall is great. But only if you feel like you have the leeway to figure out how to do things properly. Without that leeway, you need the space to ask for help.




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