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Funny enough, I almost exclusively do my best problem solving at night. I'll wake up with solutions, or I'll stay awake and get things done. I'd say 90% of my
by Waterluvian 2y ago
Funny enough, I almost exclusively do my best problem solving at night. I'll wake up with solutions, or I'll stay awake and get things done. I'd say 90% of my Master's work was done between midnight and 3am.
But indeed, regardless of time of day, if I just wake up, or am woken up, I'm basically a big, dangerous toddler when it comes to problem solving.
Context and nuance is important, of course. We're all so different.
- jrgoff 2y agoThat often happened for me in grad school as well. Generally the questions I had trouble with on a take home exam would yield to late night inspiration. And if they didn't yield by a semi-reasonable time, I would go to bed and many times, as I was drifting off, an insight would come to me. One memorable time though, that didn't happen and I woke up several times in the middle of the night from stress dreams where I was trying to solve the problem. And when I thought about the dream, nothing I had been doing in it made any logical sense to actually help me with a solution. Fortunately I woke up early and was able to figure it out in the morning. It was not a very restful night of sleep though.
- jimmaswell 2y agoOn the other hand, sometimes I find the time right after waking up the clearest, having an empty mental stack. Like having a clear cache.