If the math-centric metaphor of factoring your goals (like factoring out primes) doesn’t land for you, may I suggest my personal replacement metaphor: “The Alambic of Desires.” An alambic is one of the complicated glass devices you envision in a lab, used to distill liquids, in other words, to split into the parts that make it up. I have a (MidJourney created) painting with a heart shaped alambic on my wall to remind me that this technique is available to me.
If the math-centric metaphor of factoring your goals (like factoring out primes) doesn’t land for you, may I suggest my personal replacement metaphor: “The Alambic of Desires.” An alambic is one of the complicated glass devices you envision in a lab, used to distill liquids, in other words, to split into the parts that make it up. I have a (MidJourney created) painting with a heart shaped alambic on my wall to remind me that this technique is available to me.