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Spine surgeons have long years of training to get their licenses and start clinical practice. After a long medical school graduation and some years of neurosurgery or orthopedic residence, an additional fellowship is generally performed for 1, 2, or even 3 years. When the full license is obtained, young surgeons have to deal with another problem: the large amount of surgical options and techniques they have to learn. However, should we have to learn all surgical techniques? Modern spine surgery is based on the understanding of the whole spinal alignment and also of the spinopelvic relationships, as well as on the understanding of the specific characteristics of the patients, such as bone quality, personal expectations, comorbidities, and others. Regarding degenerative lumbar spine surgeries, specifically, decompressive techniques are probably the most common procedures performed in the daily practice. For this, surgical options include open traditional laminectomies, lateral decompressions using paramedian approaches, pars decompression, tubular surgeries, endoscopic procedures (interlaminar or foraminal), among an infinitude of small variations described in the medical literature.1–4 When we talk about spinal fusion, there is also a multitude of procedures available (posterior lumbar interbody fusion [PLIF], transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion [TLIF], anterior lumbar interbody fusion [ALIF], oblique lumbar interbody fusion [OLIF] and lateral lumbar interbody fusion [LLIF], among others), with specific advantages and disadvantages. An entire career is necessary in order to achieve expertise in these procedures.5,6 Nevertheless, in our humble opinion, there is no surgeon who is able to perform all of the spine surgery procedures with the same level ofmastery. Experience requires performing the same procedure for a long time, and even for experienced and large-volume surgeons, mastering all of the techniques is humanly impossible. The industry and their representative surgeons put on tremendous amount of pressure for young surgeons to learn these new procedures, most of which are much more expensive than the old ones (especially because they are not yet popularized) and without a clear and well demonstrated scientific superiority. So, how can one deal with all this scientific noise? With this unbelievable amount of medical literature? In fact, the anxiety exists indeed. Personally, we do not know the answer, but we would recommend that surgeons focus on surgical indications and on understanding the nuances of the patient involved in the treatment (expectations, clinical conditions, and body habits, among others). Themagic sauce is understanding who needs surgery and for what reasons, and then master a technique (new or old) that will accomplish your goals with the most cost-effective strategy. If you have a good surgical indication, perform the technique that you feel more comfortable with and whichever you have more experience in. Throughout the years, youwill be able to understand what you should incorporate or not in your

Learning Curve in Spine Surgery—Too Many Techniques, Too Many Options—How Should Young Surgeons Deal with this Anxiety?