Comment by bilekas
This is very underrated. Also an extension to this is don’t be afraid to break things further to probe. I often see a lot of devs mid level included panicking and thus preventing them to even know where to start. I’ve come to believe that some people just have an inherent intuition and some just need to learn it.
Yes its sometimes instinct takes over when your on the spot in a pinch but there are institutional things you can do to be prepared in advance that expand your set of options in the moment much like a pre-prepared firedrill playbook you can pull from also there are training courses like Kepner-Tregoe but you are right there are just some people who do better than others when _it's hitting the fan.