When I'm troubleshooting something or making a big decision I definitely sleep on it. There is a lot of processing going on while it looks like I'm doing absolu

When I'm troubleshooting something or making a big decision I definitely sleep on it. There is a lot of processing going on while it looks like I'm doing absolutely nothing. Once the frustration and the anxiety and maybe even the mourning processes, then I'm able to approach that thing better, be it a decision or a troubleshooting process, and then I'm usually able to have a way better outcome with significantly less personal stress and turmoil. A good example I just came up with is let's say you go and reboot your network attached storage computer and when it comes back your entire array is dead. Now I am going to soften the blow a little bit by telling you that this nas of yours is the one that doesn't have anything life or death on it. Whatever is on it would just be annoying and by annoying I mean you have to redownload everything to put back into your archive and it's going to be hours or days or weeks of frustrating work. Your first impulse might be to simply buy replacement drives this exact moment so they are here tomorrow and you could get the machine back up and running and start recovering data. So you go and do that and you're frustrated but happy because the path to solving this is underway. 2 weeks later there is a sale on those exact drives that you just bought and you overspent buy a significant degree and that messes with your finances a little bit. Plus now you just have a nas with only some of the data back on it at this point. So good on you, you fixed the problem and overspent and for what? If you slept on it a little bit you might have realized that "ehhhh so what? It's just some annoying data that I am slightly inconvenienced by not having anymore. Let's reassess the situation and wait it out for a little bit.". In doing that you might have stumbled upon a sale or an alternative solution or you might just end up saving yourself the headache and the money because you processed the loss and you were okay with it.