Generally: Resting/Taking a break. (There might be more information on this in neuroscience, I’m not deeply familiar with that.)
Specifically: Starting over.
Normally if you stick with might be the benefits of:
1. if you’re productive you can continue to be
2. Not having to spend time re-loading context, figuring out what you were thinking/doing before
Sometimes 2 is an advantage. (Particularly if you stop doing something that isn’t productive.) If your approach isn’t working, ‘starting over’ can be very beneficial without thinking about the problem in the mean time. For an extreme example, if you stop doing something for not just days but weeks or months, and don’t think about it, and then you do it again, you have to figure things out again (knowledge, approach, etc.) to a fair extent (and restart context).
This can help in moving from ‘this isn’t working’ equilibria to ‘things working great’.
(Having a different perspective can also be related to ‘unconscious’ thought or making (random) connections. Over a larger time frame there’s more things that connections can be made between. Above I emphasized losing context and starting afresh, rather than connecting/borrowing contexts.)
Benefits:
Generally: Resting/Taking a break. (There might be more information on this in neuroscience, I’m not deeply familiar with that.)
Specifically: Starting over.
Normally if you stick with might be the benefits of:
1. if you’re productive you can continue to be
2. Not having to spend time re-loading context, figuring out what you were thinking/doing before
Sometimes 2 is an advantage. (Particularly if you stop doing something that isn’t productive.) If your approach isn’t working, ‘starting over’ can be very beneficial without thinking about the problem in the mean time. For an extreme example, if you stop doing something for not just days but weeks or months, and don’t think about it, and then you do it again, you have to figure things out again (knowledge, approach, etc.) to a fair extent (and restart context).
This can help in moving from ‘this isn’t working’ equilibria to ‘things working great’.
(Having a different perspective can also be related to ‘unconscious’ thought or making (random) connections. Over a larger time frame there’s more things that connections can be made between. Above I emphasized losing context and starting afresh, rather than connecting/borrowing contexts.)