Most problems you'll hit have already been solved and documented online. Search for your specific error message, code pattern, or problem description in Google, ChatGPT, Stack Overflow, or documentation. You'll find existing solutions faster than thinking it through alone.
"Look it up" are the 3 most important words, I think, for any technologist and probably for most people who are interested in solving complicated problems. There are a whole lot of things that require our special energy to analyze and think about, but that's actually a small percentage of the questions that we face. Most of the questions we face have an answer elsewhere, and there is a huge universe on the internet of people who have asked this question before, and I would encourage people to go look it up. When you're seeing something hard, Don't just stare directly at what's in front of you and pop it into Google, pop it into ChatGPT, pop it somewhere else, look it up, and you will find there is wisdom either in the primary documentation or in a Stack Overflow thread or in a place where you haven't even thought that it might exist. When you take something that's specific, like an error message or a particular pattern of code or whatever, you drop that into search bar, ChatGPT, Lexi, whatever, that you will find that there are interesting answers out there that even don't get you directly, give you insight that help you make progress.
