The guy playing ping pong with a door handle instead of a paddle is basically all of us diving into a new programming language without bothering to read the docs first.
Sure, you could spend three hours reading proper syntax and best practices, or you could just start hacking away and Google error messages as they appear. Who has time for documentation when there's a deadline tomorrow and Stack Overflow exists?
Ten years in the industry and I still find myself doing this. The cycle never ends - new framework drops, copy-paste some examples, break everything, fix it somehow, and suddenly you're an "expert" giving talks about it.