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Discussion on: Why programmers stagnant from an analysis of competitive gameing.

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Michiel Hendriks

If you practice doing things incorrectly, you get better at being wrong.

Where is the bookmark/highlight quote feature on dev.to

I see this mistake being made a lot. The most (in)visible form is "experience in years". Just because somebody has 10 years experience in a field doesn't mean they are good. They could have been doing the wrong thing for a long time. The experience is "measured" on the scars. That is, mistakes people made and learned from.

People don't learn from success. People don't even know why something was successful, too many variables. Failure is easier to diagnose.

Want to get better? Then get good at failing and analyzing the causes.