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Remember when that flash of insight last self-ignited in your expectant thoughts blasting away the fog of uncertainty, complexity and doubt. A sudden aha Eureka answer, pure, simple, so succinct, beautiful. To some this flash of aha is called duration, or a blink. insight, acumen, Eureka! But, my friend, how, why, when, where, do these Aha moments arise? Can we conger up more for ourselves, fill a treasure cheat with insights? Or is this quest a waste of time, as no treasure map exits. But does it? Can we ever know with what, and how, and when to cast the magic wand? Does our search for meaning, inquiries lay the foundation? Can we prepare the way ahead in some way or other? Think back, my friend, did these gems always spring up unexpectedly, and what occurred beforehand? These aha Euekas cannot be scheduled or delayed, cannot be snuck-up on, snared nor detected, cannot be forced out nor guaranteed to appear. Euekas are not rewards for hard work, perhaps the opposite is true. How often does lazy and shallow wader get the creative rewards. Chance is never fair in its rewards for hard work. Often, an Aha taps us on the shoulder, we are least expecting it, out of the blue, saying: "Look at Me. Look at Me". When gobbled up with glee, it washes over and transforms us. We are never be the same. It makes our day. Does begging the question, ignoring the answers laid out make it pop up from the soup into an inquiring mind? Or does it appear when we raise questions to that have already been answered well? Does it appear when we thin-slice the book to separate the leaves? Often mistakes and errors have led to great breakthroughs like penicillin, radioactivity, the color mauve and plastics. What does this mean to you and your Aha Eureka pot of gold? Should we be less careful, more observant for the unusual? The Aha Eureka is a fleeting feeling, easily lost in the blink of an eye, rampant, capricious, imperceptible, unbounded, elusive like seeing something in the corner of the eye at dusk, if you look straight at it, it's gone, look back again, it's there again. For me it can be a matter of serendipity. The more I see, the more I do, the more I explore, the more hits are triggered. Many total restarts from scratch, often helps. But, for me the one simple things that works is lay me down to rest, and to sleep on it!
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