• Question: what do you do when you can't work something out or get stuck on a formula?

    Asked by 929heak43 to Valerie on 6 Nov 2017.
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      Valerie Bentivegna answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      Depending on the problem, I have a few ways to try and get “unstuck”:
      1. Put it aside for a bit, even a day or a week. Sometimes staring too long a problem just makes things worse. Letting my mind focus on something else for a while really helps. When I turn back to the problem, I have a whole new mindset!
      2. Ask a friend or colleague. I usually have lunch with a group of people who work on similar things and bouncing ideas off each other really helps. Even just having to explain the problem to someone else can help me look at the problem in a different way.
      3. Finally, to be honest, I google A LOT of things!

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