{"id":3302,"date":"2010-02-09T23:55:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T04:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2010-02-09T23:55:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T04:55:45","slug":"repost-tips-and-tricks-for-answering-hard-questionsless-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/09\/repost-tips-and-tricks-for-answering-hard-questionsless-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:: Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions::Less Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent set of advice on how to answer hard problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions<\/strong><br \/>\nI&amp;apos;ve collected some tips and tricks for answering hard questions, some of which may be original, and others I may have read somewhere and forgotten the source of. Please feel free to contribute more tips and tricks, or additional links to the sources or fuller explanations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Liked the advice below, problem is that I can&#8217;t adhere to it. I just begin to obsess on the problem and can&#8217;t go to sleep.\u00a0 I really need more discipline!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Sleep on it. <\/strong>I find that I tend to have a greater than average number of insights in the period of time just after I wake up and before I get out of bed. Our brains seem to continue to work while we&#8217;re asleep, and it may help to prime it by reviewing the problem before going to sleep.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/lw\/1g4\/tips_and_tricks_for_answering_hard_questions\/\">Less Wrong: Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent set of advice on how to answer hard problems. Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions I&amp;apos;ve collected some tips and tricks for answering hard questions, some of which may be original, and others I may have read somewhere and forgotten the source of. Please feel free to contribute more tips and tricks, or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/09\/repost-tips-and-tricks-for-answering-hard-questionsless-wrong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:: Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions::Less Wrong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}