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My inability to solve the problem, and my inability to give up on it.
In what way was the problem more complex? I always picture mental difficulty in terms of objects-to-juggle. Was there a mental juggling threshold?
The head bashing ones are those where you can mentally plot a line from premises to the conclusions you want, modulo a few holes to fill in, and where the holes keep on getting bigger and bigger, but always look fixable.
Do you mean that it's a little like putting together a piece of IKEA furniture, thinking you're done according to the directions, and then noticing there are still pieces left to add, but you don't know where they go?
And this happens over and over?
More like making furniture, realising there's little pieces to add, making the little pieces, realising there's more little pieces to add, making them... and this does happen over and over, and since you can do this in your head, you never get to rest.
Anyway, that's sometimes my experience :-)