What physics looks like when you stop optimizing everything before coffee

This is probably obvious to veterans here, but it clicked for me only recently. chemistry got easier when I stopped treating every attempt like a final exam.

The detail that surprised me was how much a neighborhood park changed the outcome. Same plan, different setting, completely different energy.

I tried this in Nairobi with a friend and we both noticed the same thing: the social part mattered more than the perfect plan.