It's an interesting opinion at any rate. It's been my experience and observation that it helps people more than hinders them to take a mental break, allowing the brain to stand back a bit and approach it from a different "pathway";thinking around the block so to speak. One could suggest that the time spent "bulldogging" stubbornly when nothing is forthcoming is wasted time, to approach it from the devil's advocate point of view. This is something that Himself and I have actually discussed informally-the vast differences in how we each approach the same problem. He'll keep at it all night until he's either got it or can't think anymore and is forced to take the break from mental exhaustion. I'll quit and do something else while it's still percolating in there somewhere until an idea presents itself because I already know the mental exhaustion is coming soon which will make it wasted time on my part. He's tried it my way to see if it helped by watching some mindless tv show that didn't require thought, doing something such as cooking, etc. Whether or not it shaved any time off of the solution is debatable but he felt better for having taken the brief mental break from his usual direct *attack mode. Maybe it's a Mars/Venus thing in problem solving, who knows? * I call it the attack mode but it's technically his viewpoint of meeting/beating the challenge. He views it more as a competition, I call it being stubborn. Yes, we're still married. :)
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Date: 2006-02-21 02:45 am (UTC)I'll quit and do something else while it's still percolating in there somewhere until an idea presents itself because I already know the mental exhaustion is coming soon which will make it wasted time on my part.
He's tried it my way to see if it helped by watching some mindless tv show that didn't require thought, doing something such as cooking, etc.
Whether or not it shaved any time off of the solution is debatable but he felt better for having taken the brief mental break from his usual direct *attack mode. Maybe it's a Mars/Venus thing in problem solving, who knows?
* I call it the attack mode but it's technically his viewpoint of meeting/beating the challenge. He views it more as a competition, I call it being stubborn. Yes, we're still married. :)