It’s really about approximating the experience as a why to a decision. Usually I try to think through questions and talk out their benefits and things start to

It’s really about approximating the experience as a why to a decision. Usually I try to think through questions and talk out their benefits and things start to get more “obvious” to me as I go. Admittedly, I don’t struggle near as much in system / software design questions, it’s my “niche” (tldr thinking in systems changed my life as a teen) but data structures and algorithms still kill me, in much the same way. I have the correct intuition but can’t for the life of me correctly describe it in Big O notation and I sometimes “freeze” on questions because it’s not something I do every day and I can just well…look things up sometimes, or work through a problem iteratively until I have a solution