I found myself thinking about a couple of issues at work the other day and felt frustrated that I couldn't come up with the solutions. I had some good ideas on parts of what was needed but I couldn't exactly make it all fit together.
Then I remembered last Easter when I was away in Noosa, a group of us were, collectively, putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I hadn't done many of those before but we all soon realised that if we each focused on a particular area of the puzzle, instead of looking at the "whole" puzzle, each of us could quickly solve for that component. The puzzle came together amazingly quick smart (then we were a bit bored for the rest of the rainy afternoon, but that's another story...).
Solving for part of a problem most often gets you to the full solution faster than trying to think about it end-to-end to start with.
Very few problems are not made up of steps in a process to solve for rather than a simple single decision.
Whether it's via a team approach or mapping out your ideas, almost like a jigsaw puzzle, those components of the solution will help you to clearly and more quickly solve the problem.
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