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A good night’s sleep can improve next-day problem solving

A good night’s sleep can improve next-day problem solving

A good night’s sleep can improve next-day problem solving

Sleep does not only store facts. It helps reorganize them, so a stuck problem can look solvable after a night you did not consciously work on it.

Studies of insight and motor skills both show overnight gains that extra waking practice sometimes cannot match hour for hour.

Quitting for the night can be strategy. The brain keeps tinkering after you close the notebook.

Shahzad Mahota Shahzad Mahota @shahzad-mahota

A good night’s sleep can improve next-day problem solving