Once in your life you had probably came across this myth You’ve got to hope for a “Eureka!” moment. Now I want to point out that it's mostly used under circumstances that concern creativity, meaning creative people go for a passive process to make their projects outta nowhere, without any skill or effort at all. Wrong!
It might be frustrating living in a country where your professional figure have to deal with these false beliefs. No matter what you do, say and believe. They still believe your job is useless. Kinda deeply-rooted dull thinking deep inside of dull people! Not to mention the millions I met and heard. As long as I can fight this big huge massive misunderstanding, I chose to make it clear using someone else's voice, Christian Jarrett, I found surfing the web. He couldn't explain better what I'm talking about:
Michael Jackson once described how the bass line for his mega hit “Billie Jean” fell into his lap, as if a gift from God. It’s a modern equivalent of the apocryphal tale about Newton discovering the law of gravity when an apple fell and hit him on the head.
This myth of sudden creative epiphanies is seductive because often it feels as if ideas do arrive in a flash of genius. However, such moments belie the hard work and perseverance that’s needed for them to occur in the first place.
It’s well documented that Jackson was one of the hardest working, most perfection-seeking artists in the entertainment industry. Newton was obsessed by his work and had been thinking about gravitational forces long before the apple incident
The trouble with the myth of the Eureka moment is that encourages the belief that creativity is a passive process. It suggests you have to wait and hope that you’ll make a breakthrough. It’s true that the final moment of insight often comes as a surprise— a spurt of inspiration rising suddenly from the geyser of the unconscious. But crucially, for this to happen, your unconscious mind needs material to work with. It cannot sift and recombine ideas—a process known as “incubation”—if you don’t first put in the hard work of studying and mastering your field and exposing yourself to different perspectives. That Eureka moment is actually the last step in a long, involved process and not the only step.
Back to us, I don't wanna take this too seriously, as I know people who really believe creative job is worthless like nothing. No way you can argue with 'em, no matter what. Period. And it's deeply sad to think about it.
