Being a specialist, knowing your topic so well can close your mind to new ideas;
being a newbie, knowing a little about a specified topic can be the greatest of all gifts, giving you the freedom needed to create something new and original, all because of your point of view, perspective and innocence about a topic.
As if knowledge wouldn’t be enough.
it also gives you the opportunity of repeating the same mistakes. maybe the trick is to know a lot but to keep an open mind. not an easy thing to do.
yeah, kinda finding a way to perfectly know what’s in the box, without being trapped in, as if to keep an outsider point of view,
i guess..