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WDYT?: What Was Your Last Aha! Moment?

Lindsay Starke

What was your last "Aha!" moment, epiphany, or instance of sudden insight? Do you find yourself having moments of clarity? What are they like?

 

Share your "Eureka!" stories in the comments!

 

 

 

photo of Nikola Tesla by Dickenson V. Alley

 

 

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Alan Leong
8 months ago

I have clarity of vision when I'm angry, but I'm at my creative best when I'm carrying a mischievous attitude, ready to break the rules and remix the elements. My last major aha moment was realizing the preceding. It was during the quiet aftermath of a workshop on personal innovation. A friend, Sammie, leads workshops that involve the origin and expression of personal visions. She said that a number of baby boomers report that it arose out of anger - rebelling against stupidity in the system. For Generation Y and the Millennials participants, it is borne out of shared, cooperative experiences. It's a small sample and so I don't want to overgeneralize, but it caught my attention.

Lindsay Starke
8 months ago

That's really interesting, Alan. I've been having quite a few conversations lately about the differences in perception between the generations—this is a nice piece of data to add to my musings.

Clarence McKinney
8 months ago

My last Aha moment burst into flower just a moment ago, when I realized that the incomprehensible behavior of my friend could be easily and parsimoniously explained by the fact of his dipsomania. It was so obvious, once I thought of it.

Lindsay Starke
8 months ago

HA! I think we all have a friend like that.

Ramón Sender Barayón
8 months ago

On the inhale: YEW - REE On the exhale: KA-HA-THAH-THAH-THAH (repeating on the heartbeat)

Ramón Sender Barayón
7 months ago

For an amazing AHA! with birds of paradise, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTR21os8gTA&utm_source=Cornell+Lab+eNews&utm_campaign=5d401e6c4b-Cornell_Lab_eNews_2012_10_11&utm_medium=email

Michael Taft
7 months ago

My biggest epiphanies come when I get outside of a situation a little bit and look back at it from a vantage point. That perspective tends to bring with it an aha! experience of seeing the forest, instead of being lost in the trees.

 
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