Do “AHA” moments really come out of nowhere?
Like other wild minds out there, my creativity is off the charts, as people tell me. I like to draw on quirky instincts to come up with unexpected ideas (that probably comes from my “out of the box” start in the world.) More like “in the box” since that’s what prison is. I write about this in my latest article for Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged. Along the way, I’ve developed product lines and ideas, dumped some, sold some, stored the rest, moved on, started over and created more, with some new ones upcoming. But not all ideas stick. Where do these “Aha” moments come from, these flashes of light when we know that a creative idea is a hot one? The research I’ve read about creativity and how our brains work confirms what my instincts have told me all along. The more we keep our minds prepared and open to creativity, the more those flash eureka moments come about. While some people are more creative than others, I, like many people, approach problems in two different ways. One i
