Some prefer chaotic backgrounds, while others consider the Monastic silence of a monastery truly divine. For hard problems (months/years), I think it requires

Some prefer chaotic backgrounds, while others consider the Monastic silence of a monastery truly divine. For hard problems (months/years), I think it requires cycling through both context states for a time. This is something nootropics proponents often tend not to recognize. Some hard problems will persist, no matter the amount of resources thrown at the issue. At some point a Plan B becomes C though Z, and its time to prune the project scope to ever hit a launch date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus Quickly recognizing when a team has lost is important. =)