It is often through experiencing new tasks and challenges either first-hand or as witness that we acquire new skills, new mindsets, new ideas, or even just new heuristic rules-of-thumb for them, which we add to our toolkit and eventually benefit from in solving new challenges. 2/
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(For instance, I learned a lot about bash scripting from some early collaborations at Stanford, and experimental work has never been the same if I only knew how to do everything in, say, Python.)
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