The process for me has always been to ask the question Why? and wait. Because the mind will tend to jump to a certain answer, and that’s not the only answer. So the way I think about it is, wherever there is a complex question I am trying to answer, I always start with the words “Part of the reason is this”—which means there must be other parts too. I’d like to think about what those parts might be. There don’t have to be twenty of them—even if there are three or four of them, that’s better than one.
