You sometimes hear people say that they come to AA meetings to be reminded of the fact that they can't drink. This is an odd statement, given what the AA Big Book says at the end of the third chapter:

The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power.

In other words, we can go to AA meetings till the cows come home, but AA meetings won't protect us against the first drink.

The same sort of muddled thinking can affect those of us who are in recovery but who now believe we have particular "problems" which -- shared in meetings -- will yield "solutions" from the experiences of others. But we don't really have problems -- we just think we do: ... [O]ur troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. Since there are no problems to begin with, there can't be any solutions either .... So how are we supposed to determine what to do? Certainly not by looking for answers to non-existent problems, but by ask[ing] God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don't struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while. What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind.

Just as the first three Steps are the key to our initial recovery, the last three Steps are the key to seeing that we have no problems that we don't create ourselves, and that the "answers" are intuitive and God-based rather than "logical" or ego-driven.