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IMO the best way to think "clearly" is to be patient. I find that when I try to figure out the best way to do something, just waiting on it I come up with a bet
by armchairhacker 5y ago
IMO the best way to think "clearly" is to be patient. I find that when I try to figure out the best way to do something, just waiting on it I come up with a better way or at least get more confident. Even when I didn't consciously think anymore about it, and especially after I sleep.
- zyemuzu 5y agoFinding solutions in your sleep is so incredibly satisfying when it happens.
- Meandering 5y agoThis may be partially caused by cortisol levels where cortisol levels are lower before, during, and after the sleep process.
- jstanley 5y agoSo, all of the time?
- axiosgunnar 5y agoI think the poster meant RIGHT before/after.
- papito 5y agoMany times when I am marinating on a problem, I come up with the most simple and obvious solution in 90 seconds after I open my eyes in the morning. I attribute it to the monkey brain not drowning your thoughts in crap, but then the tsunami comes in and you lost your chance. It's truly amazing what an uncluttered brain can do. I began seeing value in "practical" meditation. That is, focusing on something mundane like doing dishes, to distract the brain from those other things. Sometimes it's all the busy us can afford. Not everyone has Jerry Seinfeld money to meditate in peace for one hour each day (he does).
- jbkkd 5y agoYou don't need money to meditate for an hour a day, you need a conscious decision to do so. Start small. Meditate for just a few minutes, as you currently do with the dishes, and slowly increase that, minute by minute. You'll might find that you have that hour in your day.
- papito 5y agoI don't know.... The apartment won't clean itself and the food won't cook autonomously ;)
- perfmode 5y agomeditation can help one to realize the various other unnecessary things we do on a daily basis.
- Arubis 5y ago…like cleaning one’s home and eating food? Without context, your statement is true; as a response, it seems a bit of a stretch.
- bluejellybean 5y agoCould always hire a cleaner and order delivery. Doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to me.
- papito 5y agoAll of those things cost money. You are kind of making my original point that it's a privilege.
- bluejellybean 5y agoDon't really need "Seinfeld money" to do it though. I'm agreeing with the top sub-comment to yours. If you don't have time for 1 hour, should really find a way to do 2.
- rufus_foreman 5y agoIt's the only way I passed calc 3.
- the_only_law 5y agoMost of my dreams are interesting, but grounded at least somewhat in my real life, with the typical bits of surrealism mixed in. Recently, though, I've been having dreams that leave me waking up, reflecting on various things in my life, often to my detriment. Interestingly, in a recent dream, I found myself doing accurate math (nothing serious, very basic arithmetic, but I've never experienced that before)
- mercora 5y agoi would generally agree but there were times were i had seriously abstract dreams about implementation details i needed to come up with before going to sleep. these dreams are really hard to describe because they are so abstract but it feels a bit like running the debugger in your head and imagine code execution with some visual feedback. They are very tiring to me as my sleep definitely takes a hit in quality. I try to avoid going directly to sleep after working on something harder that could trigger it.
- jyriand 5y agoSometimes, half asleep I come up with a solution to a problem or a great idea. But then, waking up in the morning it feels like most ridiculous thing.
- dgb23 5y ago„Hammock driven development“
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- almost_usual 5y agoContext https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
- koolba 5y agoI was expecting this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IujLD7nSf8Q https://youtube.com/watch?v=IujLD7nSf8Q
- Raidion 5y agoThere is something magical about the subconscious. I find this works best if you truly understand the problem, but can't quite reach the answer. For me this happens mostly when playing a musical instrument. If you understand what you want to play and how to play it, but can't quite make it all come together, that's a sign for me to go to bed. Next day, there is almost always a noticeable improvement. Brain seems to do it's linking over night.
- maroonblazer 5y ago>Brain seems to do it's linking over night. Or in the space of less than an hour. Several years ago I dedicated myself to writing an album/CD's worth of songs. I'd recently got a dog and he needed to be walked regularly. So often was the case where I'd be stuck on where to take a particular song, hitting my head against a wall. Then, it would be time to walk the dog. While out for the stroll I'd come up with an idea. Sometimes that was the idea I'd run with and other times it would lead me to new, different ideas. I no longer have the dog but I keep taking the walks when I get stuck.
- tom_wilde 5y agoCan concur. This works for me when faced with some tricky code.
- tambourine_man 5y agoThis has happened to me a few times and it feels like magic. You spend the whole day trying to play something on the piano and it just seems impossible. Muscle coordination is way beyond what you can perform. Frustrated, you go to bed. The next day, you can just play it, your hands suddenly know how to. Amazing.
- Buttons840 5y agoI'm reminded of what's said in the War of Art: "What does it tell us about the architecture of our psyches that, without our exerting effort or even thinking about it, some voice in our head pipes up to counsel us (and counsel us wisely) on how to do our work and live our lives? Whose voice is it? What software is grinding away, scanning gigabytes, while we, our mainstream selves, are otherwise occupied?" --Steven Pressfield
- mrjivraj 5y agoi also find writing helps clarify thought
- goodpoint 5y agoApart from meditation and liminal dreaming, hot showers do wonders.
- bogdanoff_2 5y agoA problem I have with this approach is that sometimes my thoughts don't stabilize, but keep going in cycles. I think it would be best to do X, but then a few days later, the reasons I had no longer seem important and I think it would be better to do Y. And so on..
- dnhz 5y agoFor me, what doesn't work is trying to write it out on the computer. Writing down thoughts requires a level of clarity that I might not have yet for a particular task. I find that a shower or other bathroom break helps to organize my thoughts. Walking outside is a bit too distracting. I need to try to get up from my desk more when stuck. There's a bit of inertia to overcome in getting up from my seat, but it would probably be more efficient, thinking wise.
- bamboozled 5y agoMy partner is a dress maker, she was in tears, distraught because she cut a hole in a garment when trimming threads away from the hem, lower part of the garment. Losing 3 days work. Her conclusion was, she’d had to remake the whole thing. Anyway she had a break and we were sitting by the fire having a glass of wine, she said, “oh, that dress I screwed up, I just realised can afford to be a few centimetres shorter, I’ll just take it up so the hole isn’t an issue anymore”. It’s true, stepping back is power.
- onion2k 5y agoI think this demonstrates that all decisions should be made with help of a glass of wine.
- tharkun__ 5y agoThis, so much this. Can you please make my boss understand? For whatever reason he just always needs to have everything solved 'now'. Most of the time, the best answer is to wait a bit. Probably this latest most important thing actually isn't all that important. And if it really is, the waiting will have brought on a much more "clear" solution.
- melomal 5y agoI tend to just load up on information in short blasts, let it fester and then go back for more. Then sleep on it and time after time I generally find the solution, with a clear head. But I also do believe that time-sensitive problems can also pull the best solutions because I don't have the time to over-think which tends to destroy ideas for me.