[observationist]

Sometimes you might sit and stare at the same text, grappling with it in silence.

For technical problems, I find the act of writing out a request for help, even just into a text editor, is often sufficient for me to solve the problem at hand. Writing things out is a way of organizing and structuring your thinking, and is itself a powerful troubleshooting tool. Things will become obvious that, unwritten, you might not even notice. I think this is very similar to thinking out loud; when you listen to what you say, or read what you have written, your mind is somehow keyed to react in a useful way.

That response might not be what you want or need for problems that need to be wrestled with, chewed, and pondered on deeply, though.