My problem is that even in university, the vast majority of problems I was set were tractable, and I could oversee all of them with almost no effort. This only

My problem is that even in university, the vast majority of problems I was set were tractable, and I could oversee all of them with almost no effort. This only bit me when I had to do my final term project/thesis, since that was a problem no-one else had worked on before. I was a bit ambitious, after all I knew I was smart, but I just couldn't figure out how to start on it, so it took way too much time and was finished unsatisfactorily. The same problem haunts me in work since, and makes it very hard for me to find motivation.