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Reminds me of a math teacher I had who had the following on some of his exams:

"Guidance: Think".

The same math teacher also had at least one exam where all the correct answers except one happened to be exactly 3.

Writing down the problem is a very important step that people often omit.

I think I might start suggesting this to my coworkers + friends.

Not everybody can do that. Note that there's no loop between 2 and 3.

There is obviously a missing step though, which is to break the problem down into manageable chunks. That's the only way anyone can do it.

That's a part of step 2.

Perhaps considered a natural effect of thinking hard about it