You may be a staunch advocate of one of the following principles, such as systems thinking or people involvement. Assume initially that the problem, issue or opportunity is different. Don't copy a solution or use a technique from elsewhere just because the situation may appear to be similar.
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
The most successful problem solvers do not begin by trying to find out what has worked for someone else. We can't clone others' successes. Copying what others have done doesn't necessarily produce the same results for us. We don't know where others have come from and more importantly where they are headed. If we could get their solutions to work for us, by the time we succeeded, these others would have likely continued ahead of us.