I can solve any challenge.

Watch a plumber find a leak. There's no flash of insight involved — just a sequence of narrowing questions, each one cheap, each eliminating half of what's left.

Most stuck situations answer to the same method, and most people abandon it because the first three questions turn up nothing and that feels like proof of incompetence. It isn't. That's how elimination works.

The list of things you've already ruled out is longer than it feels. Write it down sometime — the shape of what remains is usually smaller than the dread suggests.