Such solutions often rely on intuitive "insights." Intuition is a result of complex neural connections in the brain suddenly firing in a way that connects with a real problem. This requires two ingredients. The first ingredient is the network itself, which can be established by studying many other similar problems. The second ingredient i

To solve problems, our brains have evolved to employ cognitive heuristics—rough shortcuts that get the right answer often, but not all the time.

One interesting idea is how the decisions or actions you make are either dependent or independent of experience. For example, some things that are highly complex require zero experience to come to a conclusion on or do. Inversely, some things might be incredibly simple but require significant experience.