Salvador Gutierrez P7 Feb. 21 - Feb. 26

This week in AP Psychology: we learned about one of the best feelings in the world, eureka/insight solutions.  It is when you suddenly come up with a solution for the certain problem you had.  It happens on the third stage of creative problem solving.  After incubation and before verification-elaboration.  It’s kind of the same thing as the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.  Where you can’t remember exactly what it is so you stop thinking about it (incubation) and after a while, you suddenly remember what it was.  The eureka insights make you feel like a genius.  WARNING: you must have a pen and paper with you always because you don’t want to forget your eureka solution.  I have had many eureka solutions where I would forget what I came up with.  All those creative ideas, those genius ideas and solutions that would have blown the world away…gone.  Anyway, that’s my life motto now.  To carry around a notebook and paper and to put everything aside because I will eventually get back to them with a better solution.  Which is why for homework assignments, their shouldn't be a due date and the students should just put away their homework and forget about it.  Once you have an insight solution, then you can do your homework and turn it in.  It will increase the quality of homework turned in.  If you don’t get an insight solution by the end of the year, then forget about it.  Life goes on, brah! - “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” by The Beatles.  I bet The Beatles wrote most of their songs through eureka insights.  They would stop writing and then just go on with their lives.  And suddenly, while reading a nursery rhyme to the prime minister, they would come up with the chorus.  If we treated homework like The Beatles treated songs then we would turn in some #1 hits.