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>when trying to force an activity thinking I "have to" do something at a set time. But once I just give in and go take a nap, I learn something that was waiting for me to step away from the activity
I actually had this happen right now. For a few hours I've been trying to get started on a practice assignment for the Japanese writing course I'm taking. I wanted to write on paper for maximum practice and to memorize better, because it's how I normally do things to "immerse" into it. But eventually I started writing in a word document thinking I'll translate it first and then write it on paper after, because my mind seemed to just lock up when I sat down with the paper.

Then I ended up finishing the task and I found that I made a lot of silly spelling and grammar mistakes. Writing on paper really wasn't the issue here, I already know how to write kana, so this was just a fixed idea. The real thing I should do is to actually learn how to spell and form sentences properly, and I can of course do that on the computer just the same, it's easier to fix mistakes that way.

But it took all that time for me to get past this mental block, the idea that "writing on paper is always better".