4 Responses

1. Senia says:

   September 25, 2006 at 3:07

   Nice about your q to think about an AHA moment and to focus on that moment in order to keep that AHAness active. I like the idea that focus­ing is use­ful for keep­ing brain cir­cuitry active. Makes me think of the use­ful­ness of focus­ing on noth­ing, i.e. med­i­ta­tion, which must also acti­vate that circuitry.

   I met a girl this week­end who is a huge fan of that game, BrainAge!

   An AHA moment — when I real­ized two dif­fer­ent news sto­ries had at their core the same injus­tice that absolutely rubbed me the wrong way.
2. Alvaro says:

   September 25, 2006 at 10:29

   Hi Senia,
   I enjoyed the arti­cle for many rea­sons, but one of the major ones was that con­cept about the value of reflec­tion to “solid­ify” Aha!s and keep learn­ing and learn­ing and learn­ing. This may be an Aha! itself.
   Yes, I have heard the BrainAge game is really addic­tive. It is great that some­one is start­ing to pop­u­lar­ize the value of brain exercise.

   Med­i­ta­tion helps with train­ing atten­tion, appre­ci­a­tion and other behav­iors that we can become famil­iar through, I am sure, sus­tained focus.
3. Christopher Panayis says:

   November 26, 2006 at 4:18

   Didn’t get the AHA thing… Clear crys­tal­ized thought that only lasts a few sec­onds in my mind and then leaves makes me think of the “wow” feel­ing. You know these times; they make every­thing clear to you for no rea­son and then leave again. (e.g. “I feel con­fused tired and bored with what i am because i actu­ally love three things in life and not one”)
4. Alvaro says:

   November 26, 2006 at 4:35

   Well, they don’t fully “leave”. They have lit­er­ally con­tributed to the growth of some den­drites, on which you can build next time you have a sim­i­lar feeling.