How to have an AHA Moment

Posted on | January 26, 2008 |

Sharon Begley (Newsweek.com) wrote an amazing article on how the brain works when people have their little epiphanies….aha moments….revelations…whatever you want to call it. 

What I found most interesting from her “lab notes” is that the ones who solved problems quicker, with less strain, are the ones who relax mentally and don’t get all anxious.  I mean, isn’t it true that we all have had, at one time or another, test anxiety?  Or performance anxiety of some sort where our minds just go blank?

It really makes a lot of sense!

Begley concludes:

“So if you’re stuck on a problem that requires creativity, the first thing to do is relax, mentally. Stop pursuing the same old dead ends. Let your thoughts wander. Let your attention flit between seemingly irrelevant memories and thoughts. That’s the best way to let disparate pieces of the puzzle come together into your own eureka moment.”

  So, relax.  Your AHA moment is on it’s way.

  Click here to read the NewsWeek article.  Well worth it.

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