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Why walking solves problems sitting cannot
A stuck problem is often a posture problem. Movement changes what your mind is willing to consider.
There is a particular kind of stuck that no amount of staring at a screen will fix. You have read the same paragraph four times. The answer is not going to arrive from that direction.
Change the input
Walking gives the mind a rhythm and takes away the pressure of the blank page. Ideas that refused to arrive at the desk turn up somewhere in the second mile, usually unannounced.
Leave the headphones at home. Boredom is part of the mechanism.
