In engineering you are thought to think logical and start from A to derive Z. On the flightdeck there is no time to go through that process.
I once went through a recruitment process for a large company who were recruiting both pilots and engineers at the same time.
As part of that process there were various aptitude tests, based on ones used by the military.
One test was to enter a room where an invigilator at a desk (actually the HR manager) pointed out the rules, which were to remove a number of assorted objects, some large and heavy, some small and light, from a taped off area on the floor. There was a bag of "implements" that could be used to remove the objects, but each one could be only used once. No objects could be touched by hand. There was a time limit, twenty minutes iirc.
Myself plus two other pilots were sent in. None of us knew each other and we had only met earlier at the recruitment event - and were in effect competing for a job. As we were told "Go", we emptied out the bag of implements. There were ropes, canes, short pieces of wood etc and not much else. We had a quick individual think, a short consultation and then got on with it. We completed the task in less than half the time. The invigilator said because we had removed all the objects she wanted us to put everything back as it was whilst she kept the clock running. We did that, too, inside the original time.
The HR manager told us in the debrief that we were the first group of pilots she had put through the test and that she was very surprised how well we worked together and got it done. Only engineers had been put through before and NONE of them had ever finished within the time limit because they spent a great deal of time discussing the task and coming up with alternative theories.