A rising tide doesn’t raise people who don’t have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide. — Rahul Gandhi
While characters need to struggle, they also need a writer’s support to climb out of the mess we put them in. A wish and a wink or a too conveniently placed coincidence will leave the reader dissatisfied with subsequent solutions.
In your WIP, what is the scaffolding that helps your protagonist(s) reach their final conclusion? Is it a personality trait, a family circumstance, a relationship, a hard fought for education? What else can you pre-build to make your final outcomes believable?