Where do answers come from? To questions you have posed? There is a something that you want but the picture is not clear on how to proceed.
Analysis! Thinking, in other words, solves problems, doesn't it? Most of the time. But what if you can't reason with something, some dilemma that seems unsolvable no matter how much you try and pick the problem apart?
Intuition can be employed. The sense of knowing that can't be explained. Intuition, though, comes to you in a way different from thinking. It is very precise and fast, doesn't mess around. Some examples- "Move in this direction! Make that phone call! Act now, not tomorrow!" Directives like that that get you moving towards the goal. It can get you there directly, or it can get you lining up the puzzle pieces.
However, solving problems might take hours, days, weeks, months, years, or an entire lifetime! It's the timing of The Universe when you get certain things (witness the human condition). Some people get everything they want when they are young, some get everything they want when they are old, but most people get a mix. Nothing happens randomly. All the little things inevitably tie into the larger picture called 'Life lessons' and 'Soul purpose'.
But that's all big stuff. Solving most of the situational problems in life doesn't call for that much involvement or orchestation. These things are easily handled by one's thinking capacity, coupled with intuition, and then right timing in applying any necessary action steps.
The other stuff, the big stuff, calls for patience, processing, and dilligently working on your issues. This subject can be deep, deep as it gets. And you thought answers were easy!
It depends on the question!