Frustrating Puzzles

Another roadblock people experience when puzzled by a puzzle or stuck with some other sort of problem is frustration.  People who are frustrated can be seen pounding on a table top, swearing, stomping their feet, aggressively wadding up paper, throwing things or yelling.  Frustration is a mild form of anger.  As such, it invokes our primitive fight or flight mechanisms.  We no longer are capable of the higher forms of thought necessary for creative problem solving.  When we are frustrated, we need to stop being frustrated in order to proceed.  How do we stop being frustrated?  One way is to stop doing what we were doing when we became frustrated and do something completely different.  Take a walk, listen to some music, pull weeds in the garden, or take a shower. Anything that will change our perspective should work.