Over the years, sometimes I would backtrack a bit because I would see someone presenting something in a cool way.
I’d think, “Woah, this is some secret that I don’t know and need to know.”
Then, I’d engage and quickly discover it’s just something I already know, repackaged in a different way.
So essentially I was being “sold” by someone who was packaging something in a cool way, but it was knowledge/experiences that I already knew and had internalized.
So sometimes there’s an element of wasting time there with that kind of stuff.