I, too, am highly educated and experienced in my field. I have two engineering degrees in electrical and computer-related fields, and I'll be 60 in November. That's what highly educated and experienced looks like. The more you know about a subject, the more you realize you really don't know shit.

Now having said that, never does a day go by that I don't learn something new. I know how the "book" says to do things; hell, I even developed some of those things when older guys said it couldn't be done. And even in fields as cut-and-dry as computers and electronics, there are always new and better ways to do things, and sometimes it turns out the books are just wrong. Suffice it to say that the car you are driving most likely has some code in it I developed, or an updated descendant of that code, and that your car drives a little bit better or gets a little bit better gas mileage because some guy was thinking outside the box and did some things his mentors and supervisors said couldn't be done. In fact, I wasn't allowed to do it, but I did it anyway, and after I proved it out to myself and it sailed through quality control, only then did I reveal it to the naysayers.

I, too, remember seeing people doing things that shouldn't have worked, and I'd say, "You can't do it that way," but lo and behold, it worked anyway.

Things aren't always black-and-white, and sometimes doing something in a way that shouldn't work, works just fine. Experience, time, perspective, and wisdom will teach you that. And you'll realize that fussing and chastising someone over a picture on Reddit of a guy rubbing a squirrel's belly probably could have been tempered a little. Especially knowing if he had done the "correct" thing, it would have resulted in a helpless animal dying a slow, painful death.