aha moment

I’m dedicating my life to mathematics, the art of the shortcut, but I actually enjoy spending the time and having that aha moment when I find a little tunnel, which gets me through to the other side.

When I notice myself tensing up and scripting my words in an effort not to touch off emotional consequences with someone, that’s my aha moment that I’m involved with someone controlling.

As she tells it, her aha moment came in the form of a drawing from her youngest son, who struggled to understand why his mother’s meetings kept taking precedent over him.

The first was access to affordable health care, a confirmation of her aha moment with Tadyn.

“It was an aha moment for me and motivated the research,” Lee said.

Was there an “aha moment” when that balance clicked into place?

And in this aha moment, she explains in ways we all can understand what it must feel like to be transgendered.

"Aha moment" is quite old—our earliest citation is from a 1939 psychology text—but it was used only sporadically for a long time.