I ignored "read the error message" for months and it cost me a week in Buffalo
Everyone kept telling me to actually read the red text when my Python script failed, and I figured it was just the sort of thing folks say to sound smart. Then last month I spent 5 days rewriting a chunk of my project at work because it kept crashing, and when I finally pasted the error into a search bar, the very first line said the file name was wrong by one letter. Is there a habit you picked up early that saved you from wasting a week like that?