A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

When you tackle challenges use the non satisfied approach. This means - look beyond that first 'correct' answer that pops up. Wait a while, adjust your perspective and go for another and another. You may find the optimum answer is way down the list or even a combination. Don't be a red-green light thinker use the amber to slow down.

This exercise tested, in effect, your level of satisfaction with the first right answer.

Herbert Simon developed the principle of 'bounded rationality' (1983):

'the capacity of the human mind for formulating and solving complex problems is very small compared with the size of the problems whose solutions is required for objectively rational behaviour in the real world.

Rather than maximising, the individual follows a strategy of 'satisficing'. The satisficer is someone who stops searching the haystack when they found the first needle. An "optimizer", on the other hand, would search the entire haystack in order to be able to find all the needles.

Most of us simply don't have time to be optimizers. However, there is a real temptation to be a satisficer - that is, to find one solution and stop. School rewards those who find "the" answer.

In some limited situations like solving maths there may be only one solution. But, for the vast majority of real, practical problems there may be two or three or an unlimited number of possible solutions.

There is always more than one "right answer".

H.A Simon (1957) Models of man. New York:Wiley.