What does "missing the forest for the trees" mean?

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it means you're paying too much attention to the details and not seeing "the big picture", to use another cliche idiom.
You're too busy worrying about or noticing one "thing" instead of seeing the whole picture.
Basically it means you're too close to the problem and can't see the whole picture.
Step back and look at the whole picture instead of just a portion.
Imagine yourself in the middle of a forest. Can you see the forest?
Now imagine standing outside the forest and looking back. What do you see?
It means being so hung up on the small details that you don't see the whole thing.

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