I can not say that I have ever made a wonderfully important or influential discovery that has in some way changed the course of society forever. It has been decided, while talking in small groups during class, that a Eureka moment as Asimov references, can happen to anyone and could be the smallest victory- the tiniest realization. Asimov compares the discovery of Archimedes' principle, and other scientific revelations, to his own writer's block that he experiences in his life on a regular basis. As an author he often found that while, "...writing a great deal of fiction, there wold come, once in a while, moments when [he] was stymied." His discovered solution to fix this block was to occupy his mind with non-intellectual action movies. In this personalized example he explains the Eureka moment as simply a discovery made while in a way not volunteering to think. This happens to me all the time. I spend hours on hours sitting at my piano practicing other people's amazing and prodigious compositions, which often inspire my own musical innovations. But I find that I rarely can write an acceptable piece of music when trying to be creative. It is only when I am in random places or when simply improvising that I come up with a melody that blossoms into a piece that is personally acceptable.
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