Puzzle people start with the edges. When life’s a mess, find the straight pieces first.

Start where the certainty is. Puzzle people find the edges first because straight sides are the one unambiguous fact in a thousand pieces of doubt, and the middle becomes solvable only after the frame exists. When a stretch of your life is genuinely chaotic, the same approach works. You are not looking for the solution yet, only for the few things that are definitely true.

List the fixed points in the mess you are in. What time you have to be somewhere, who is on your side, what you still owe. Build out from those this week.