In the wonderful movie It’s Kind of a Funny Story, based on the autobiographical book by Ned Vizzini, the adolescent main character Craig winds up as a patient in an adult wing of a psychiatry unit in a New York City hospital. As he’s being oriented to the unit, a patient walks by and yells, “It’ll come to you.” That character, Jimmy, repeats this throughout the movie. Although it initially startles Craig, it turns out to be prophetic.
Indeed, there’s quite a bit of science to back up the idea that “it’ll come to you.” Sometimes, when we have problems that seem very difficult to solve, you might notice that you’ve figured things out when you weren’t really focused on trying to solve them. You might be thinking of something else, and that’s what the science suggests: the problem-solving part of the brain continues to work even when we’re not focused on it.
I hope you’ll be comforted by the idea that when things seem very difficult, if you have faith in the idea that “it’ll come to you,” it usually does.