> The mind has a clever feature in that it surfaces subconscious goal-setting at the right time, and on an as-needed basis. I've heard of a strategy where you

> The mind has a clever feature in that it surfaces subconscious goal-setting at the right time, and on an as-needed basis. I've heard of a strategy where you think really hard about a problem, and then you go and do other unrelated things and your mind will come up with a solution. I have found that this does happen in practice. By stepping away from the problem, I'm basically forgetting all the context that made me approach the problem from the original angle and thus my mind tries a different approach. Often this new approach will also not work, but there might be things I discover when trying these approaches that lead to yet another approach.... I guess this process goes on until either a good enough solution is found or I give up.