Diversity of learning also helps for me, if you're 'thrashing' on a problem without making progress, take a break to focus on something else - even another skil

Diversity of learning also helps for me, if you're 'thrashing' on a problem without making progress, take a break to focus on something else - even another skill entirely you're learning in parallel like cooking, writing, or something physical. It's almost like background processing - you need to load up the context and let your brain chew on the problem a bit and when you return to the problem a solution will usually present itself.