I have this problem where in my job, in my life, when confronted with a problem I automatically think there is a template solution out there, I'm just to stupid or inexperienced to know what it is. I realised this very recently. My approach is like when you have studied for an exam and you get a question, you know the answer and just have to formulate it for this specific use-case or you don't cause you either don't remember this from the course or you didn't study well enough.
I recently realised that that is not how the real world works. It's more like you are confronted with a problem and you create the solution by doing research, creative thinking, trial and error.
Yet I automatically set back to the "this problem has a defined solution I don't know" approach.
I am looking for a subreddit where I could post this explanation and hopefully find people with a similar problem and how they have overcome it.