This is often a teaching opportunity for young analysts. There might be infinite ways to tackle a problem. You can sit and map it out for 30 mins and then execute in 5, or you can sit down, focus, bang it out while hitting some roadblocks, doubling back a few times, in 15. The former is less taxing mentally but takes longer. It is counterintuitive but sometimes in crunch time it’s better to bang it out without a plan.
This is often a teaching opportunity for young analysts. There might be infinite ways to tackle a problem. You can sit and map it out for 30 mins and then execute in 5, or you can sit down, focus, bang it out while hitting some roadblocks, doubling back a few times, in 15. The former is less taxing mentally but takes longer. It is counterintuitive but sometimes in crunch time it’s better to bang it out without a plan.