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If I were asked to move Mount Fuji, I might say, “How far? I need some parameters.” (It’s OK to
ask questions to clarify or get more information.) Or I might use humor: “A bulldozer load at a
time.” Or, if I wanted to be creative, I might say, “I’d have a contest for anyone who could move the
biggest bucketful of Mount Fuji 1 mile, and the winner would get a prize.”

If I were asked “How many gas stations are there in the U.S?” I’d probably estimate how many gas
stations there might be in a small town of say, 10,000 people and start multiplying until I got to the
approximately 300 million people there are in the U.S.

In these kinds of questions, the answer is not the point as much as is the process of getting
there.