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This is what always happens for me, I’ll get stuck, start to do something like eenie-meenie-miney-moe, and then end up deciding on something completely different than what I get. I think the randomization sets an immediate deadline for our brains, and that results in us suddenly thinking through things much more clearly, sort of like a student that is suddenly able to type paragraphs and paragraphs when it’s 11pm and they realize their paper is due at midnight.
I think when you trick the brain into a forced decision by chance, you realize the pros and cons of that decision and can properly weight them and choose the better one