Why can you sit 2 hours trying to solve a programming/math problem, give up, go to bed & then when you wake up, solve the problem in 10 minutes?
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I don’t really have a legit answer, just my own speculation. There’s more to your problem solving abilities than your conscious mind. Studies are increasingly showing that the subconscious mind actually contains most of your brain’s ability to process its environment (and is probably responsible for the sort of “gut feelings” where you size up the truth of a situation before you’ve actually realized specifically why something is wrong with it). I’ve noticed this effect in many different contexts. Like I love to write fiction and one huge thing I’ve noticed is your writing always looks considerably different the next day. Same day editing is almost worthless. Like you can’t just write something, read it immediately and expect it to be good. You want the most bang for your buck you have to wait a day and then read it again. All its flaws will pop out to you in a way they didn’t at all the day before. It will feel like it was written by a different person at that point. I’ve also noticed this with stuff like assembling furniture. I’ll have problems with one step and just can’t get the thing to fit like the instructions say. I’ll give up, go to bed, come back to it the next day and be able to get the thing to fit like magic in two seconds.
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