Sometimes when I am trying to figure out a technical issue for work, I spend far too long sitting at my desk, going round in circles, without coming up with a good solution. Other times (not often enough) I will go for a walk or do some household chore, then when I go back to my desk the problem doesn't seem so difficult at all and I have an easy solution for it.
This relatively short blog post, explains someone else's experience of this process very well: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/what-work-looks-like/






