While I agree that experience and practice are key elements to success in just about everything we do in life, there is also seldom any reason to reinvent the wheel every time you want to do something new. You can easily learn from the experience of others and make your own modifications along the way. Even those of us that quilt alone, didn't get where we are today all by ourselves.
When I have questions, and after 45+ years I do still have questions, I ask someone whose work I admire what they would do under similar circumstances. I don't throw the question out to the general public. It narrows the answers down to the ones I'm more apt to try for myself and are most apt to work, saving time and my sanity.
Long ago I was an apprentice printmaker. It's a wonderful way to learn a skill without having to rediscover everything for yourself and when the skill becomes solid, your own style takes over.