When your body’s tired and your mind is loud, the answer is usually sleep, not solutions.

Exhaustion does not announce itself honestly. It shows up as urgent thinking, as problems that suddenly need solving right now, as a mind that will not stop generating. Almost none of that thinking is any good, because the machine producing it is running on empty.

When your thoughts are racing late and nothing is getting resolved, treat that as information about your body rather than about your life. Put the phone down, sleep, and look at the same problem in the morning. Nine times out of ten it has shrunk without you doing anything.