I spend 4 failing to get a feature to work. Out of ideas + frustrated, I go to bed I get up the next day and resolve the issue in less than 2 minutes This happens often and its fascinating + frustrating. Almost like, what's the point in crunch? might as well just go to bed
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I guess it's because when you're doing this sort of logic-based work you're doing everything correctly: you're following a set of rules and a flow, so it's easier to forget / think you're making progress because you're doing "everything right" in trial-and-error
whereas it's a lot easier to emotionally justify taking breaks or "sleeping on it" with a creative problem because I have more experience with it and I am fully aware of how it works + the benefits of it etc. have to learn that it applies to less creatively-driven work too
