Coaching practices for I Try One Way to Crack a New Problem it Doesn't Work and I Immediately Stop and Go Look it Up I Never Push Myself to Come Up with Two or Three Different Angles First So I Only Ever See One Corner of the Thing Before Someone Hands Me the Answer

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• I try one way to crack a new problem, it doesn’t work, and I immediately stop and go look it up
• The moment a problem shows up I lock onto the first fix that comes to mind and start running with it
• I jump straight to the worked answer to save time, and it always looks obvious in hindsight
• I always jump straight to the worked example or the solution before I’ve even tried the problem myself, and the explanation never really lands
• I find one explanation for the problem, feel like I’ve cracked it, and stop right there

Practices that may help

1. Solution-space exploration
   Generate multiple different approaches to a problem before converging on one.
   Productive Failure: How Struggling First Makes Instruction More Effective
2. Adopt a "not-knowing" stance before problem-solving
   Delay solution-generation by first articulating what you genuinely do not know about a problem.
   Beginner's Mind (Shoshin), Made Practical
3. Generation: attempt before you are taught
   Try to solve or answer first, even if you get it wrong, before seeing the solution.
   Make It Stick: The Science of Learning
4. Attempt problems before seeing the solution
   Try to solve or answer a question before you are shown how — even if you fail.
   The Generation Effect: Why Making It Yourself Makes It Stick
5. Follow the causal chain until you reach a changeable cause
   Keep asking "why?" until you reach something you can actually fix.
   The Five Whys
6. Treat failed attempts as constraint-locators rather than dead ends
   Each failed approach tells you precisely where the active constraint lives — mine that information before trying again.
   Constraint Relaxation: Escaping the Walls You Built Yourself
7. Systematic alternatives: generate three more explanations before deciding
   Force yourself to generate at least three alternative explanations or interpretations before committing to the first plausible one.
   Lateral Thinking, Made Practical
8. Attempt before instruction
   Try to solve a new type of problem with your current knowledge before any formal teaching.
   Productive Failure: How Struggling First Makes Instruction More Effective
9. Study a fully worked example before attempting a new problem type
   Read through a completely solved example and understand each step before you try to solve anything yourself.
   The Worked Examples Effect: Learn Faster by Studying Solutions First
10. Reverse the problem to break fixation
    Ask the opposite question ("How could we make this worse?") to escape the constraints of the original framing.
    Problem Reframing: Solving the Right Problem First

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