They key is to work very, very hard at solving the problem before sleeping. It's insufficient to just read the problem, or tinker around with it a little.
However it also doesn't work to beat at the problem so hard that I stay up all night without sleeping.
I'm afraid that I didn't clue into this until _graduate_ school. As an undergrad I quite commonly didn't start my problem sets until the night before they were due.
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Did you use some form of presleep self talk, think about the problem just before bed... It's a fascinating idea.
They key is to work very, very hard at solving the problem before sleeping. It's insufficient to just read the problem, or tinker around with it a little.
However it also doesn't work to beat at the problem so hard that I stay up all night without sleeping.
I'm afraid that I didn't clue into this until _graduate_ school. As an undergrad I quite commonly didn't start my problem sets until the night before they were due.