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Everyone mistakenly believes that their subjective difficulty is the difficulty of the task, but it is subjective, so there are discrepancies from person to person. When one person X looks like another person Y is C (when they seem to be struggling with a simple task). From Y, X looks like B. (They appear to have no clue about difficult tasks).

  • (a metaphor for) pushing through a wasteland
  • Person X, who limits the search range narrowly, reaches the answer faster than person Y, who does not limit the search range, if the answer is within the limit.
  • On the other hand, if there is no answer within the limit, Y can be reached, but X cannot.

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