Take a Break for Goodness Sake!
You can work at learning facts and you can work at analyzing data, but if you want an insight, you have to relax your mind enough for the anterior superior temporal gyrus to do its job. That's the "Eureka" part of your brain. That's where the breakthroughs happen.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago found that a certain level of inebriation can help get the creative juices flowing. In the study, participants whose blood alcohol level (BAC) was slightly less than .08 percent performed better in a creative task than did their sober counterparts.....