It may be fun to try a new task all by yourself. You will feel brave and proud of your accomplishment at the end because you did it all on your own.
Even though a task might seem new to you, it probably isn’t.
It might be new to you, but not to this world.
When you need to drive a nail, an appropriate tool would be a hammer and not a rock. The rock might get the job done, but not as cleanly and neatly as the hammer would.
A person using a rock might feel proud and brave for having accomplished the task. But he or she wouldn’t know if it was the best way to get the task done unless he or she actively sought after an answer.
And it’s better to seek before doing, and not after.
How would you know a hammer is a good tool to drive the nail unless someone told you? And why would someone tell you if you didn’t ask?
The time, energy, and effort you put into feeling proud and accomplished might not have been worth it if you could have got that thing done using an already invented tool(s).
Before you do something new, it is worth the effort to seek the right tool(s) to get the job done.
Don’t reinvent the wheel. For 99 percent of tasks, inventions have already been made.
It’s worth more to seek the right tool, the right advice, or the right insight before you start the new.