Ap Dijksterhuis

Then at a day where he wasn't going to work, he was in the countryside doing something completely different.

And he stepped on a bus.

And the moment he stepped on the bus, almost the exact millisecond, he saw the solution.

He just knew it.

And it felt like it came out of nowhere, but he knew the solution.

Yeah.

If you have one of those sudden flashes of insight or inspiration, it feels like it comes out of nowhere.

And for a long time, people believed these insights came from God or in the old Greek days, the time of the old Greek philosophers, they thought it came from muses, the nine goddesses.

And Poincaré was probably the first one who explicitly said, you know, it came from your brain, but it's in an area of your brain.

where you just can't reach.

And at a certain point, you have this sudden flash of insight

Yeah, these sudden bursts of inspirations are wonderful in different ways.

One of them is indeed, if scientists have these ideas, yes, they feel absolutely right.

And some people describe these moments of insight basically as love.

They give you a lot of energy at the same time.

And the third thing is that it feels almost magical.

And that's why you feel forced to do something with it.

You can't have a wonderful moment of insight and then say, I'm going to ignore it for the forthcoming three days.

I'm now going to do something completely different.

That's impossible.