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Beyond the general idea that the more time you have to think about a problem the more likely it is you will do better at solving it. How does this translate into an ability to solve more emergent problems? Isn’t this “hack” somewhat similar to the idea of people who have never had to step up and learn to work harder. And in fact the hack gives a false sense of confidence in the ability to solve more typical real world problems when it matters.



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