Archimedes Coined the Term "Eureka!" in the Bath. During a subsequent trip to the public baths, he realized that the
more his body sinks into the water, the more water is displaced--making the
displaced water an exact measure of his volume. Because gold weighs more than
silver, he reasons that a crown mixed with silver would have to be bulkier to
reach the same weight as one composed only of gold; therefore it would displace
more water than its pure gold counterpart. Realizing he has hit upon a
solution, the young Greek Math whiz leaps out of the bath and rushes home naked
crying "Eureka! Eureka!" Or, translated: "I've found it! I've
found it!"
In layman terms, Eureka is an exclamation of
triumph on discovering or solving something. What I feel is, Eureka moment is
that moment which gives you happiness, a sense of joy, a sense of satisfaction.
You’re
just flesh. Your soul animates you and the ones that surround you. As an
optimist it is my responsibility to not have a boring life. To feel deeply. To
listen to the stories of strangers. To try new things and go new places. To say
yes. To question everything. To find beauty in the commonplace. And to fall in
love. Over and over. Living almost an ordinary 19 years of my life, I fail to
recognize the extraordinary (Eureka) moments. However, I did find happiness, a
sense of joy& achievement in my everyday small moments (Not to mention, I
would run around naked for such events).
Napoleon Hill has rightly said: “If you can't do great
things, do small things in a great way.” Creativity and insight almost
always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the Eureka moment in
which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to
reveal something new. “I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was
nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked
and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think
it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.”
Completing a piano piece, discovering your own dance steps, solving a Sudoku
puzzle, that sense of feeling when you reach the 32 mark in your paper, winning
an ISTE event, completing a TV series and remembering all the dialogues while
re-watching it, painting some abstract that turns out to be beautiful, finding
out that resistor due to which your experiment failed again and again,
completing a marathon, finding new moves in chess to defeat your dad although
deep down you knew; he always wanted you to win, cracking your vivas in front
of a nut-crack external, generating a smart witty reply when someone is upset
with you! Achievement has no colour. However small it maybe, it is that
exclamation of triumph that matters.
You get educated, you get degrees, you take a job or make
one yourself, you earn, and you keep on earning money; for what? Happiness?
Peace? Survival? Why don’t just earn a living instead of earning money? Why not
find happiness in your small moments? Why struggle 24x7 for that one Eureka
moment? Why do stuff you don’t want to do, for stuff you don’t need? Look
wider, look at the bigger picture. I don’t have one single extraordinary Eureka
moment that world will remember forever but I do hold thousands of small
ordinary Eureka moment that are sufficient to make me happy in the long run.
Grow some balls, take a risk, think different and live life the way you want to
because ‘Nothing is Ordinary’.
- Dev Sanghvi
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