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what is an insight?

november 18 20070

So, I have to find some subject to write about.
After all, that's a blog and they require you to write... things on it. That means I need an insight, but let me take a step back – what exactly is an insight?
The Wiktionary says...

Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception

Cool. That seems correct and very appropriated, but let me add to this definition...
They left out the most important aspect of an insight. It relates to a problem. In fact, this symbol represents the end of it. The very flashing solution of a problem, the one that was always there but you couldn't see before – but you actually can, using all the powers afore mentioned (see, I'm not saying it is wrong).

So, the insight is a check-mate. It's the moment when you realize that your problem is just a round of chess, and you are inside the table. You recognize the rules, your role on it, the actual round, and you realize that the next move is obvious – all they are – and that you can anticipate it, probably solving the problem.

Most times, you will laugh. You do that because insights are VERY funny.
I don't mean they aren't serious, they are very fucking serious.

The funny part is that they always sound like your audience on that same game of chess. They were waiting for so long for you to make that move, that they got bored. Very sleeeeepy bored. Your insight is a massive waking shock, a collective "AT LAST" scream, and for a painful moment you feel just like an idiot. That fear last for half a blink, or, as long as it takes for you to realize that if the problem do exist, that is because nobody found and effective answer yet. And if YOU found - or so you thought - that means you are the first idiot to get cured – hypothetically speaking.

That is also why people need to live in a society. If you are the only one in charge to find solutions, you will be always the last on the joke. But if you live among other people, every fresh idea you have is an idea nobody has had before. I know it sucks when you think about, but let's face it – Human nature sucks.
It is so... politically incorrect.

Now that the secrets about this crisp little word unveiled, I need to get my insight about the subject of this damned blog. Well, do I really? Because, you know, the answer is sitting right in front of me, all this time.

Ideas