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This sounds counterintuitive, but: learn when to take breaks and step away from problems. Some of my most productive hours have been spent walking through park
by candu 11y ago
This sounds counterintuitive, but: learn when to take breaks and step away from problems. Some of my most productive hours have been spent walking through parks, coming to crucial realizations or designing approaches that end up saving me days (or even weeks!) of wasted effort.
Along the same lines, the best advice I ever received was from an old music teacher: do less, better.
Also: if you think "delegating" and "managing" are luxuries and somehow antithetical to creation, I'm guessing you haven't done much of either.
- garraeth 11y agoI do this too. Walks are wonderful for stimulation. Sometimes for me, it's a hot shower or short nap.
- darkr 11y agoI find this helps a lot. Many a time I've been banging my head against a problem for hours, only to realise the solution later on when I'm cooking dinner or taking a shower.
- ralphael 11y agoI've solved my most complex problems when I went for a run on the evening of the day where I got stuck. There's something about stepping away and being able to step through each scenario and look at things from a different angle.
- IndianAstronaut 11y agoI call these 'piss break revelations'. Especially when debugging or doing analysis, just take a quick break and suddenly you have new ideas.