You Must Enjoy Solving Puzzles

Many puzzlers enjoy solving puzzles, because they often experience an Aha!  The Aha! experience happens when a person goes through a major shift in perception to achieve a solution to a problem (puzzle) that they couldn't find until they had this shift.  Often this sudden insight seems to come out of thin air.  It cannot be forced.  When someone experiences this sudden shift in perspective or insight, they may find themselves laughing out loud, throwing their arms in the air triumphantly, exclaiming “Yes!” or just feeling a little more alive.  Of course, there is also all the emotions that accompany accomplishment. The intensity of the Aha can be said to correlate directly to the amount of time and energy the puzzler has spent stumped by a particular puzzle.  The longer the time, the greater the energy applied, the greater the Aha! For most people, the Aha experience is a rarity.  By doing puzzles, one can experience what Archimedes and Einstein must have felt when they made their great breakthroughs.