The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

A great deal of thinking happens out of view. Solutions arrive in the shower, a decision feels obvious the next morning, a name surfaces an hour after you stopped searching for it. The part of you that deliberates is not the whole apparatus, and it is often the slower part. That is not mystical; it simply means conscious effort is one input among several.

Use this rather than fighting it. Load a hard problem deliberately, then go and do something else with your hands. And treat a strong intuition as a message worth examining rather than as either a verdict or a nuisance.