text: Learning from what others say is a important skill, and basing new ideas off of other ones is a complex and great way to make an informed decision. I ask my father for help on my math homework very often. When doing hard, creative thinking problems that sometimes require more knowledge than I have, my father is there to teach me. One time, I was struggling on an especially difficult problem when I asked for advice on how to complete it. My father studied the problem for nearly 20 minutes before talking. When he finally spoke, he sounded just as confused as I was. We talked through the question, rebounding ideas off of each other. We tried the strangest ways to solve the math dilemma, but to no avail. After a random thought my dad spit out, we both suddenly fell silent and let the sentence hang in the air. A light, or to be more accurate, an explosion went off in my head, and then I was scribbling as fast as I could on a piece of paper.