Simple solutions come by themselves, and not at the very moment when they are trying hard to find them.

“Simple solutions come themselves and not at the very moment when they are trying hard to find them.” - I made a similar observation a long time ago.
Therefore, when I encounter a complex, even urgent problem,
I try to postpone its solution if it cannot be resolved “right away”.

“Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today” - this is one of the generally accepted misconceptions that seriously reduces labor productivity!
It’s worth putting aside what you can do all day
long until tomorrow , if tomorrow, with new knowledge, technologies and ideas,
you do it “in five minutes”.

To justify my theory, I will give a very fresh example from my life.
It happened yesterday:


In the morning, a regular customer puzzled me,
it was necessary to change the form of the menu output in the photo album script.

This script was written quite difficult, used a bunch of modules and settings. In addition, the authors of the script did not leave any comments anywhere :)

The most offensive is that the menu in the main script was displayed
using a string variable, which is not clear where it was formed.
I spent half an hour studying several tens
of script files trying to find the part of the program where the
variable I needed “gathered” . But the search (of course, I used automatic search) yielded nothing ...

I had two options:
1. Continue the study when.
2. Use the day off as intended for rest.

I chose the second.
I rested intensively all day, and in the evening, when I got home,
I solved the morning problem with three lines, just using the operator to replace fragments of a line, I converted it to the type I needed.
The solution came by itself and seemed so simple that I could not understand
why I was dumb in the morning.

Question: “Would I find this solution if I chose the path number 1?”
remains open.