And yes.* I could have said the whole thing in a short, single
   sentence.* There's absolutely nothing "new" here, really.* Yet
   it took a surprising amount of research to come up with simple
   conclusions.* For example, at one point I studied "Who figured
   out the best way to solve a Rubiks Cube in the shortest amount
   of time?"* Well, I found out one of the fastest methods, when it
   came down to it, was simply this: Mentally chop the thing in
   half diagonally.* Solve one diag.* Solve the other diag.* One of
   the fastest (I think it ended up being "the fastest") and there
   are some yippity-yap and awards and such for the guy but when I
   realized all he did was chop it in half long-ways... making two
   triangles (pyramids as it were)... I was like, "ok, duh, makes
   sense".* Not that I could do it; but it that's what it ended up
   being. Lots of complicated problems with elaborate descriptions
   for their solutions ended up working out to: break it down in to
   parts you can manage, and solve the parts you can manage to
   solve until you're done. Substitution is another great solution
   to problems.* Have a stand-in.* If you're getting bullied, a
   strong friend can take your place.* If you don't know something,
   learn from someone smarter; they are a "stand-in" for your brain
   until you understand it and then it gets incorporated into your
   brain.* If you dont want to understand something and just "get
   it done", you can pay someone to do something for you. etc etc.
   So there's a surprising amount of "stuff" behind my ridiculously
   simple way of explaining what's "obvious".* So many notes I took
   about different subjected, and ended up pointing to the same
   answers over and over again.* It was actually kind of annoying;
   I wanted it to be so much harder or more amazing.* But it
   wasn't. Maybe that's my limitation; but I can only do as much as
   I can do.* Someone smarter or better spoken than me can come up
   with something that sounds better.* I just wanted to "go super
   basic".* You can accomplish a lot with a few very basic rules,
   applied thoroughly.