Difficult questions require careful research. Most questions have obvious answers. The main task for the easier questions that are initially confusing is to mine sources for gears (definitions, explanations specific enough to allow inferring things from other things). The gears naturally assemble into narratives/hypotheses/theories, which then passively sift through anything else you encounter on the topic, shifting the balance of credence between them according to the pieces of evidence that are specific enough to have to be either largely correct or fabricated out of whole cloth.
Difficult questions require careful research. Most questions have obvious answers. The main task for the easier questions that are initially confusing is to mine sources for gears (definitions, explanations specific enough to allow inferring things from other things). The gears naturally assemble into narratives/hypotheses/theories, which then passively sift through anything else you encounter on the topic, shifting the balance of credence between them according to the pieces of evidence that are specific enough to have to be either largely correct or fabricated out of whole cloth.