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MarkS:
This is happening to me ALOT!  :palm:  I'm in the middle of typing out the problem, describing the issue, and BOOM! A bolt of lightening hits and the answer presents itself! I guess it's the act of describing it that makes the answer clear?  :-//  Am I alone in this?

mendip_discovery:
I wonder if that is why there are soo many posts on the forums where the person posts the same problem you are searching for, but never says it is solved or if they do they never say how.

I find in the effort of making a post I figure it out becuase you start to explain it to people clearly and then you make the connection. I have then turned a few of those into posts about the stuff I worked out so that I can save the next person suffering.

SiliconWizard:
Yes that's a very frequent thing.
And it makes sense. The hard part of solving most problems is to be able to describe the problem at hand clearly enough, something you'll make an effort with when trying to describe it to others - while making that effort for yourself only looks a lot less "natural", so we often don't and get stuck not fully understanding the problem we are trying to solve.

https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/pinewiki/ProblemSolvingTechniques.html

MK14:

--- Quote from: MarkS on March 17, 2023, 05:24:56 pm ---This is happening to me ALOT!  :palm:  I'm in the middle of typing out the problem, describing the issue, and BOOM! A bolt of lightening hits and the answer presents itself! I guess it's the act of describing it that makes the answer clear?  :-//  Am I alone in this?

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Also, what sometimes happens.  Is that you are so convinced, that google won't be able to possibly find the answer, and the answer is so unlikely to be out there, that you don't actually try.

Then as you write out the thread starter, as an act of politeness and fairness to other forum users.  You submit the appropriate part(s) of what would be the opening post to google, just to confirm there are not any answers.

Then you find there actually are answers, so you abandon creating the thread.

Also, ChatGPT might give enough initial pointers and ideas, to avoid needing to create a new thread.

PlainName:

--- Quote --- I'm in the middle of typing out the problem, describing the issue, and BOOM! A bolt of lightening hits and the answer presents itself!
--- End quote ---

Nope, never worked for me. The post has to be completed and preserved for posterity, and only then will the obvious answer present itself.

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