Whatever...

for those of you who don't know, I'll put "Gordian Knot" into something more modern day you might understand better. "kobayashi maru"....

The definition basically is to "cheat" your way out of a difficult situation.

In mythology (something I studied by the way) Alexander the Great couldn't solve a knot, thus he cheated and cut it with his sword.

Zeus smiled upon him and supposedly granted him his wishes.

More importantly, Alexander's biographers rewrote history stating the prophecy was that "whomsoever shall solve the knot would become king of all of Asia"... a little bit of revisionism going on way back when.