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Aha!

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Aha!

By Wright State University) Irvine William B. (Professor of Philosophy

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About the book

Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length-but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. For Gustav Mahler, it came as the blades of his oars touched the water. And for Albert Einstein, it emerged while he was talking to a friend. Why do these moments of insight strike so suddenly? Why do they so often come to us when we are focused on something completelyunrelated? And when great ideas...Show more

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9780190690274

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Oxford University Press Inc

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2017

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