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I had this with one of my guys. He spent a week working on something and the validation at the end wasn't jiving.
He started showing me the complex solution and end results and so I said show me how you started and walk me through it.
It was step 1 the origin location of data was out of position.
I said if you start at this origin the rest of the numbers and data will work out.
He replied that the origin wasn't shown measured from somewhere, so how would we know location.
So I pointed out that the data to origin wasn't directly spelled out but if you take this measure and subtract this one that is your data origin start.
He said OMG I worked on this for a week trying to get the formulas working. I feel so stupid because you solved it in 1 minute.
I replied its not a question of smart or stupid (because my guy is way beyond me for formulae and programming) its just slowing down and following a process. And if you are confused, ask more questions, rather than just continuing.