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Comment by andreareina

3 days ago

That's only when the breakthrough happened and misses all the rest of the time spent on the problem.

And nothing says they weren't thinking about the problem when it happened.

I've had a lot of "aha" moments not sitting by my desk, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't thinking of the problem. When people say they had an idea in the shower, I suspect it's precisely because they were undistracted enough to focus on the problem.