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I've fixed this several times by going camping alone for a week with nothing to read, no devices, no pencil and paper. Just me, a tent, food and coffee. I come
by mcnamaratw 11y ago
I've fixed this several times by going camping alone for a week with nothing to read, no devices, no pencil and paper. Just me, a tent, food and coffee. I come back full of ideas. Stuff I've been stuck on for a year becomes easy. Motivation returns.
I rarely "have time" to do it ... but somehow I always have time to work in circles for weeks or months and not get much done.
A common answer here is "learn something new" and that works for me at first. When "learn something new" isn't enough, I bring out the big guns and go camping. I haven't isolated what about camping does it for me. (I believe Danny Hillis, the founder of Thinking Machines wrote that he would never have finished his dissertation if he hadn't written the first draft at Disney World. Not my kind of thing but I guess it worked for him.)
Good luck!