I think learning extremes can be useful, just don't take any one paradigm as gospel. Practicing Clean Code forces you to think in a special way, and when you've

I think learning extremes can be useful, just don't take any one paradigm as gospel. Practicing Clean Code forces you to think in a special way, and when you've tried it, you start to get a feeling for where you should draw the line. Doing CC makes you a better programmer, but you have to figure out yourself where the tradeoffs are. Other examples are TDD. Forcing myself to write tests for everything for a period has made all my code since better, even though I don't practice TDD now.