I’ve definitely noticed this teaching the guitar. If students first have a really good run at learning something, particularly something mechanical when you’re

I’ve definitely noticed this teaching the guitar. If students first have a really good run at learning something, particularly something mechanical when you’re working on a piece/exercise, if you stop at some point and chat about/distract them with something briefly, subsequently when they start playing it again it’s sometimes as if ‘magically’ what they were working on previous to the break has been ‘digested’ on a more sub-conscious level or something, and afterwards they play it much better… I wondered if it was because initially the conscious mind was over-thinking and grappling with mapping a task from individual pieces (bit like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant ) …or even self-sabotaging, and the break helped somehow to reach a more ‘flow-y’, confident state where the brain has a starting point to work from - some sort of pre-prepared mental ‘map’…