How much better am I at solving work problems if I have some sense of perspective? Technical perspective, that is. I'm now reverse engineering a grammar to mo

How much better am I at solving work problems if I have some sense of perspective? Technical perspective, that is. I'm now reverse engineering a grammar to monitor the interactions with a legacy system. ANTLR is cool, but I wouldn't have known about it unless I had spent a lot of time web surfing over the years. How many people do you work with who have no clue about what's going on in their profession except for what they're told by their bosses to work on? Edit: Learning of any sort provides perspective, but it's the technical perspective for which I have the most direct evidence of employer value.