From Jonah Lehrer’s book, Imagine: How Creativity Works “…the act of being stumped is an essential part of the creative process. Before we can find the answer–before we probably even know the question–we must be immersed in disappointment, convinced that a solution is beyond our reach…It’s often only at this point, after we’ve stopped searching for the answer, that the answer arrives.

So don’t despair if you’re stuck! It’s all part of imagination’s “wicked sense of irony.”