Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

— Terence

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Most difficult things yield to someone who keeps going at them. The thing that looks impossible from outside is usually a sequence of findable steps, and what separates the people who get there is not brilliance but the willingness to keep asking after the first three answers were useless. Persistence is a method rather than a virtue.

Go back to the question you abandoned after one attempt. Ask it again differently, ask a person rather than a search box, and ask somebody who has actually done the thing. Give it three more honest tries before deciding it cannot be answered, since almost nobody gets past two.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What have you given up finding out because it looked hard?

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