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There is a common experience that people have of sleeping on a problem, and having the subconscious brain keep working on it in the background and waking up wit
by totetsu 4y ago
There is a common experience that people have of sleeping on a problem, and having the subconscious brain keep working on it in the background and waking up with some insight. In my experience, when your brain doesn’t have any pressing problems from daily life to solve, when you just have nothing to do and nothing in mind, this is when the subconscious starts working on the really big problems and starts to deliver all kinds of insights.
- kater006 4y agoLearning how to learn by Barbara Oakley describes precisely that
- jarjoura 4y agoLove that effect! I do this in small doses when I take my dog for a walk. After I get back I usually have the answer I was searching for without actively thinking about it.
- yencabulator 4y agoAlso known as "shower thoughts". I usually solve my hardest programming problems in the shower.
- swexbe 4y agoThat's usually when I get really depressed :(
- yencabulator 4y agoI've always found I'm most productive at hard problems when I "try to solve it" for max 3 days in a row, and then let my mind wander before trying again.