Change the representation. Work small, simple examples by hand until you see the pattern. Try to start at the smallest simplest Most reduced example of the problem you can come up with and work your way to the next one. Once you see a pattern, try to change the representation and how you write it down invent some language for the problem it’s important parts of relationships aspects or dynamics of the problem come up with some terms are some symbols to represent those parts.

Celebrate the small wins find enjoyment in the process and motivate yourself with peptalk’s imagining how great it will be when you solve it, or how close you are. get a feel for the problem and believe that it has a solution. I just keep trying to get there, enjoy the uncertainty and the excitement of discovery.

Remember, you may be the first person to tred these paths. So don’t forget to stop to take it all in once in a while. Even if you’re not The first person to do so, you’re doing the first time you’ve been there, so still stop to take it all in because it’s important to you, and that makes it important.