The hardest part of any problem-solving exercise is trying to find the right question to ask.
The one that goes beyond the symptoms and looks at the root cause of what is happening and what you need to do to go forward to make it work.
In some situations, it’s the question we don’t want to ask, the one we don’t want to acknowledge because changing our question to the right one would be an acknowledgment that we were initially wrong.
But you weren’t “wrong”, you were simply figuring out how to get there – and as long as you’re in search of finding that question without the blinders on, you’re still on the right path.
