Slightly tangential
To expand on Hamming’s point slightly: Any problem handed to you is almost certainly formulated wrong. Why can you be confident in that? If it were formulated right it would already be solved and not coming into your awareness as a problem. This is helpful for scientific problems, but also personal problems. Traversing the same representation of your problem for the nth time isn’t going to do much other than agitate you. This is part of why new self help techniques work for a time then stop working. The problems you had that were amenable to those representations are now solved.
Slightly tangential To expand on Hamming’s point slightly: Any problem handed to you is almost certainly formulated wrong. Why can you be confident in that? If it were formulated right it would already be solved and not coming into your awareness as a problem. This is helpful for scientific problems, but also personal problems. Traversing the same representation of your problem for the nth time isn’t going to do much other than agitate you. This is part of why new self help techniques work for a time then stop working. The problems you had that were amenable to those representations are now solved.