Discovering you don't know something is the first step to knowing it. To argue with someone else's experience is a waste of time. You understand the instructions only after you have assembled the red wagon. Everyone in this room has the answer. The purpose of this intense experience is to stimulate one, several, or all of us to extract and remember what we already know.
Creativity is the elimination of options.
If you can't have fun with the problem, you will never solve it. The only valid test of an idea, concept or theory is what it enables you to do. In every adverse condition there are hundreds of possible solutions. You fail until you succeed. Nothing fails like success.