[inphovore]

YOU’RE DOING IT RIGHT!!!

You’re paid to not stop until you have a competent solution.

Self as an obstruction as very common. Take breaks, EXERCISE, don’t eat junk food (it corrupts your mood).

Keep solving problems!

It is the persevering mind that endures.

The situations you describe are “as-hoc”. You’re thrown into the middle and expected to tread it out.

Judge yourself by your own doings, not your adaptation to the toil with the doings of others.

Don’t forget to intelligently ask for help. All the time a fresh eye reveals something, and to get (small discrete units of) help from others is actually a good way to make friends. Everyone likes to share how they would fix the problem.