My ability to obssess

I seem to have lost it and I desperately need it back.I was never the brightest in terms of actual intelligence in my high school class. However,one of the main reason I maintained above average grades was, during that time I had the ability to obssess about any task. The ability to think about a topic day in day out night after night till I solved it. I never needed coffee to keep me awake during those times. When I was in the zone, I could think about a topic while taking a
shower, playing cricket, watching TV,cooking. In the process I have burned myself making tea, mildly electrocuted, almost got run over by a bike and of course bump into infinite people and objects.I was slowly getting it back couple of months ago when I was working on one of my dissertation problems. But a series of non research issues with respect to the topic, broke all my interest in the paper. I was not able to think about it for an hour let alone a day. I thought I will take a break from the topic and come back at it after a month or two and now I am stuck in the same state. I am working hard, spending a lot of time in the lab but still not able to obssess about it enough to make it into a good paper. I remember my advisor telling me about how he used to think about some of the proofs all the time and about how he made a breakthrough once in the kitchen.I need to get into that mode and I need to do it fast!!!

On a totally unrelated note, the more I learn about Muhammad Yunus,Nobel Peace Prize winner 2006, the more I am impressed with him. His theory of Microcredit for the poor, which breaks every rule in banking is simply amazing. Add to that his modesty and simple demeanour. As Jon Stewart rightly said, it is the simplicity of the scheme which makes it truly brilliant.
Next time I visit the bookstore I need to remind myself to purchase Banker to the Poor.