An ‘Aha! moment’ is essential for success. You can find it accidently or you can go looking for it. But nothing is sure to work until Creative Insight grabs your attention.

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Creative Insight

An Aha! moment is a cognitive-emotional connection. It’s just like when something you’re touching makes you feel good all over! Or like when something you hear or see thrills you and gives you a tingly feeling. It’s when an idea or some thought suddenly gives you clarity of understanding or purpose for action you hadn’t thought of before. Something that clears up what’s been bothering you. An Aha! moment is something in your brain giving you emotions that elicit physical sensations.

Have you ever had such an experience? Creative insight occurs to everyone in some form. It’s a part of human function that may not exist in other creatures.

Pleasure is a critical part of Creative Insight. It happens in many ways that please us. Something we read. A puzzle we solve. A joke we hear well told. Signals of love exchanged between two people. All of these create a flush of pleasure we thoroughly enjoy. But the emotion of pleasure is always more for some than others.
The experience of creative insight is not all or nothing. It’s not exactly the same for the same person every time or the same experience for two people who otherwise are much alike. A really good idea that makes me shout out loud might just amuse someone else. Pleasing for sure but just amusing. Maybe nothing could make that person shout out loud!

This Eureka! Effect, shouting out loud, is named for Archimedes, an ancient Greek mathematician working on hydrostatics. The story is that when he was bathing in a public tub, he noted that his body displaced a volume of water equal to the volume of his body. He suddenly realized this was the way to measure the volume of an irregular object. He was so excited, he is said to have jumped naked out of the tub shouting “Eureka” (I have found it!).

Physical sensations of pleasure also shift from time to time as well as vary between people. A brief gasp of air, a few fast heart beats, a shivery feeling with sudden sweat gland action, hair standing up on the back of your neck. These are reactions that can be recorded in a polygraph test like a truth detector. Some people have a physical response to almost anything and other people simply don’t respond physically to anything.

For everyone, creative insight has two phases. In the first phase, an important issue or problem appears and defies resolution. Can’t be ignored. Too severe, too important. Plus possible solutions have been looked for and tested with no success. Tried again and again but always failure. Simply can’t find an answer that works.

Then the second phase appears as a welcome surprise. First of all, it’s a sudden surprise. Secondly, it’s amazing. It works smoothly and simply. Thirdly, it elicits all the cognitive, emotional and physical features of an Aha! Moment. The whole experience comes as a thrilling, pleasing, and welcome surprise. Finally, it really makes sense. There’s no doubt in your mind. This is going to work. In all, it seems to be a miracle you can’t believe happened to you.

Motivation

Broadly defined, motivation is why people do anything. It includes an appreciation of what, how and why people think, feel and act as they do.

Subconscious cognition governs most thoughts, feelings and actions. Every thought, every emotion and every action are all evaluated according to outcomes, processed into neurocognitive rules and stored in memory. These memories include situations and forces that were never fully appreciated or accounted for.

Deterministic chaos describes multiple features. As shown in the Figure below, all arise from initial conditions and evolve along distinct paths under various stimuli. But intertwined and interacting with each other. The result is chaotic and unpredictable by any formal set of rules

Local interactions inevitably occur that damp apparently unorganized behavior into stable, more predictable paths. At least briefly. For how long is never certain.

Efforts to make changes may succeed but for how long? Why is anyone even interested in diabetes, or metabolism, or nutrition, or physical activity?

Enhance Performance

Impact Matters

The long-term effects of type 2 diabetes are well advertised. It’s almost impossible to ignore what we know to be the long-term effects. There’s personal experience of yourself, your family and your friends. There’s consequences described on the internet, in newspapers and on TV for you, your community, our nation and the world. There are no long-term benefits from type 2 diabetes.

But some things mean more to one person than another. Sources of information are more or less reliable. Some more. Some less. Also, two people with the same information can form contrary opinions and make opposite decisions. I’ve made up my mind. You must make up yours.

Please be certain you’re persuaded that the long-term effects are worth your attention

The short-term effects are what to concentrate on right now. It’s the good things that’ll happen in the next 6 months that will improve your good health practice. You can expect to look better, feel stronger and perform at a higher level.

You’ll save a lot of money on healthcare. Fewer expensive medications and fewer clinic visits. Lower deductible limits on healthcare insurance. Lower copayments and lower coinsurance costs.

Improved performance will bring better offers for employment, fewer days lost from work and less burden on others for their help.

Short-term costs are time, effort and inconvenience.

Priorities Are Important

Many things in life are a waste of time. Figure out what’s most important to you.

Start with a list.

Pick the top three for the next 6 months.

Add some details.

Apply Creative Insight

Inspirational discovery of creative insight comes from searching everywhere imaginable. Including sources you find accidentally. Search social media, other communities, away from main stream thought, historical events.

Look again where everybody else has given up. Somewhere you may find sudden mental clarity with something of obvious value showing a clear strategy to follow.

Try again something that didn’t work before. Hardly anybody stops smoking the first time they try. Maybe deterministic chaos has created another combination of paths that will work for you this time.

Analytical approach to solving a puzzle will work if given enough time, effort and persistence. This is a brute force approach.

Start with a detailed written review of long-term goals and short-term objectives. Consider personal, family, social, occupational and financial issues. Concentrate specifically on the short-term rewards.

Establish an action plan starting with something, anything that you know you can do easily. Write it down and report it to your family, a mentor, a coach. Someone who will help you through the hard parts.

Follow your plan and track performance using quantitative measures including potential financial rewards. When what you started gets easy, extend your effort as it improves your health.

Most of all, take pride in your performance. The Creative Insight comes from personal satisfaction in accomplishing something you didn’t know you could do.

Test The Results

It’s much too complex to analyze the Motivation for what you thought, felt and did all your life up to now. However, it’s simple to test the practical results from any change in thoughts, feelings and actions you introduce alongside existing Motivation.

Requires a written record with quantitative measures. Write down a deliberate, detailed plan every week or two.
•including practical analysis and adoption of how to proceed
•including measurements to make in assessing progress
•including a timeline of what to do and when it will happen
Then check progress every few days until the final check.

Testing yourself means writing everything down and reporting it to someone else.

Testing someone else means stating, negotiating and recording a deliberate detailed plan with specific dates and measurements.

Finally, review and evaluate what happened. What Creative Insight have you gained to sustain your Motivation towards Preventing and Reversing Diabetes?

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