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Why We Like Puzzles, and What We Get From Them

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Cross Word Puzzles - How to Find the Toe Hold

i think people naturally do that with the cross word puzzle. They just find the clue that they can answer right away, because then it just from there, you just gets the ball rolling. One of the best way is to solve problems is put it away, do something else for an hour a day a week, and then come back, and you'll have been working on it. Leonardo da vinci wrote a guide to how to be a painter, and one of his main suggestions is, if you get to a tricky part a problem in your painting and can't solve it, walk away and then comeback and you will be able to solve it.

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