Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.

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    I think it only works if your brain is wired in a particular way.

    Tons of open browser tabs? Long, impossible-to-complete to-do list? Unread emails? Unplayed Steam Games?

    Good chance of it working :)

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      I have all of those… Except my to-do lists are not actually long because I never get around to adding stuff to them.

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        Hahaha.

        I used to have a home office room, and I bought and installed a whiteboard on the wall, for noting things down, planning, to-do list etc.

        For five years, it had a single scrap of paper blue-tacked to it, which read “1) Buy a whiteboard pen”.

        I eventually solved it by moving house.