[kev6168]

I totally agree on the "competitive spirit" point. If one has a strong desire to take control and to win, the needed energy and sense of emergency will come quickly.

To expand on this point, I think in addition to the competitive spirit, a carefree mindset also helps to keep cool, make you to step back a little bit, to think quickly in unconventional ways.

I am not so sure about your second point. I understand more knowledge and more experience will help us, but is more studying of documentations/technical know-hows the best way to spend our time in the aim of improving our fasting thinking ability? I have experienced too many occasions in which much less knowledgeable/skilled people came on top in businesses/arguments/political competitions.

[freedevbootcamp]

I should have said this is from my 20 years of experience in an IT department. And as a response to my second point, it was in reference to technical problems that you see in an enterprise environment. I though you were directing your questions to technical knowledge not business/arguments/political competitions, my bad.