https://medium.com/@george3d6/encouraging-the-wrong-state-of-mind-for-creating-good-code-531031517881

George HosuBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJan 15Over the last year I’ve started noticing this strange pattern of how innovative ideas come to me when working on a project. Innovative — as in solving a problem in a creative way that makes the solution much easier to implement, much less fragile, or both.

It seem to me that innovative ideas emerge in two states of mind: bored and stressed.