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Sometimes working at something for long enough puts you into like a fugue state. It’s like the opposite of “flow” where you just dumb down.
^This happens to me only when I had entered my dumbzone the previous shift
Happens. Then you come back to it after a few days and all the shitfuckery of last session becomes so damn obvious.
I’ve done this so many times at school and work. It’s crazy what you can accomplish by leaving a problem until the morning.
Tunnel vision. I get this all the time. Actually more beneficial to go for a walk and not work.