Re:At the End of a Procrastinated Day
by keithpeter on Saturday December 10, 2011 @07:39AM
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See Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field Jacques Hadamard, published around 1900. Once you have immersed yourself in a problem, going about normal daily tasks not related to the problem allows your mind to churn and make connections. Sudden (Gestalt like) insight may occur.
That said, sometimes it seems it was necessary for me to stop work and just do nothing for a while in order to find that important insight.