Yup. It’s not about taking the quickest route from a to b, like textbooks try to do (no doubt to save paper) but to “fill in” the mental graph in your head as f

Yup. It’s not about taking the quickest route from a to b, like textbooks try to do (no doubt to save paper) but to “fill in” the mental graph in your head as fully as you need. If that means solving the same problem multiple times using different methods no matter how useless or inefficient, trying things without knowing if they’ll work, and adding to your bag of tricks for later problems. You know, like life itself.