Experience makes it easier to avoid Absence Blindness. Experience is valuable primarily because the expert has a larger mental database of related pa… - Josh Kaufman

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Experience makes it easier to avoid Absence Blindness. Experience is valuable primarily because the expert has a larger mental database of related patterns and thus a higher chance of noticing an absence. By noticing violations of expected patterns, experienced people are more likely to get an “odd feeling” that things “aren’t quite right,” which is often enough warning to find an issue before it becomes serious.