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I agree with you. A hugely useful tool in problem solving is identifying our assumptions and then deciding whether they're actually valid or not. I like the example of special relativity that Einstein developed early in the 20th century. At the time, there were a lot of people smart enough to figure it out, and who had worked out ideas that were pretty close, but Einstein was the only one at the time who was fearless enough to seriously propose it.