It's important to forget things.

I find myself chatting with both beginners and experienced developers. I sit on calls with them listening to them talk about their newest tools, their best wins, and their worst pitfalls. I love listening to how other peoples' brains work. How they're making money. How they're solving problems. From Reddit to real-life, the conquest is always for knowledge . Thinking, building, producing: the fruits of their labor; the reflection of applied lessons. The beauty in this is that there's levels and layers to development, just as much as there's levels and layers to solving problems. The beauty is when the beginner finds the solution the expert missed. The title of this thought-piece should be 'how to think like a beginner', less 'it's important to forget things': the concept I'd like to expand upon is rooted in the idea that what you've learned might be holding you back. An expert utilizes learned-knowledge to solve issues. An expert has already suffered , learning what they need to know t