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MOST OF THE TIME, ideas develop from the steady percolation and evaluation of thoughts and feelings.
大多數時候，創意從思維和感覺的穩定滲流和評價發展而來。
But every so often, if you're lucky, a blockbuster notion breaks through in a flash of insight that's as unexpected as it is blazingly clear.
但如果你夠幸運的話，一個突然而來的靈感往往會在一瞬間迸發出來，這既出乎你的意料，又極其清晰。
These revelations can be deeply personal, even existential, prompting the realization that you should quit your job,
這些啟示可以是非常個人化的，甚至是判斷性的，使你意識到應該辭職，
move to another city, mend a broken relationship, or, as Lovell did, redirect your moral compass.
搬到另一個城市，修補一段破碎的感情，或者，像洛弗爾那樣，修正你的道德方向。
They can also be creative, generating a brilliant start-up idea, the perfect plot point of a novel, or the answer to an engineering quandary.
他們也可以很有創意，想出一個絕妙的創業點子，構思小說的完美情節，或者解決一道工程難題的答案。
In all cases, you apprehend something that you were blind to before.
在所有的情況下，你理解了一些你以前看不見的東西。
The early-20th-century psychologist William James described such moments of clarity, in his book The Varieties of Religious Experience,
20世紀初，心理學家威廉·詹姆斯在《宗教體驗的多樣性》一書中，將這一清晰時刻描述成
as snap resolutions of the "divided self."
“分裂自我”的突然決議。
It's as if a whole lifetime's worth of growth is compressed into a single instant as dense as a collapsed star.
就好像一生的成長都被壓縮在一瞬間，像坍縮星一樣密集。
That's how it felt to Leroy Schulz.
這就是勒羅伊·舒爾茨的感受。
Driving home from a wedding in Canada late one night, Schulz glimpsed a ghostly form surging from the highway median toward his headlights.
一天深夜，舒爾茨從加拿大的一場婚禮上開車回家，他瞥見一個幽靈般的身影從高速公路上撞到車燈前。
He didn't have time to brake.
他沒有時間剎車。
He barely had time to turn his face away from the flying glass as the moose's head hit the windshield.
當麋鹿的頭部撞到擋風玻璃上時，他幾乎來不及把臉從飛濺的玻璃上移開。
