It's because I could never build anything, I just competed with myself to come up with ideas that nobody else would come up with. Avoided local maxima of the a

It's because I could never build anything, I just competed with myself to come up with ideas that nobody else would come up with. Avoided local maxima of the at-that-time-doable, while still making -- completing designs on paper = iterating faster. Iterate more times than competition on paper, never build anything, then when time comes to build, you can supersede competition. This approach may only work for perfectly logical, deterministic systems, like computers.