Or at least look like you are.

Stress.

Have a coffee.

Scratch that, have a whiskey.

Hyperventilate.

Definitely don’t take a nap.

Ok, take a nap.

Have stress dream while napping.

Wake up half-enlightened, half-terrified, realizing your stress dream contained what was either a genius solution — or utter madness.

Iterate.

Iterate.

Iterate.

Slowly convince yourself your idea was just the right mix of mad and brilliant as you gear up for the big pitch.

Present “solution” with possibly glib, mostly false confidence.

Wonder if it’s all falling apart.

Discover meditation.

Deleted scenes.

Realize you used the idea of world peace as a way to shill soda.

Consider that it probably has all fallen apart.