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Compesh is a question and answer (and debate) website, so before you make a debate, you better learn what an assertion is. I suppose you already know what a question is, and that you've typed it in the box. ;)
An assertion, is basically a statement you can make, that is either true or false.
Richer people have better health.
The question for that would be, Do richer people have better health?
And don't forget to make your assertion, match your question.
psychology
In a sentence: Epiphanies don't feel any different from me having ideas, so they don't really feel like anything significant for me.
I never have out of body experiences, and I have only had an epiphany about myself once.
That was yesterday when someone on Quora diagnosed me with chronic depression based on an answer I gave yesterday. I looked up what it was, and he was right. Damn. I never knew that chronic depression existed. Now I know this, there's not much I can say that I couldn't say before. I can't exactly change things and live a newfound life now because I know this. I always knew that I was something, but now I can now put a name on it. All I can do now is attribute the way that I act and feel sometimes to that.
How did that feel? I already had a bad day that day, so me knowing that, just made some tears fall from my eyes later on.
I have epiphanies often when I think of ideas to be creative about things, or think of new solutions I could solve with websites.
I was trying to write my 1st novel by extending a short story I wrote. The problem was that there was no material for me to use to extend it. Three years later after writing the short story, I decided to try again. I hoped that by trying it later, I would be able to do it. I then had a think of how to write Chapter 2. Instead of thinking about what happens next, why don't I instead get all the hooks that I've got, and see what I can do with that, and make new ones? Some chapters took 5-8 hours to write, but the novel literally wrote itself. I never got stuck since I had that epiphany. My second problem was that beginning chapters consist of a boring day. As my novel can't fast forward and is meant to document all events over 10 days, I couldn't skip the boring chapters. I decided to rotate the conversation between a funny lol, slack sad, and shocking wtf moment. This gave the characters depth.
How did that feel? I was too busy writing all day and continuing to think hard for 12 hours all day to feel enlightened by something I had thought hours ago while I was still thinking hard. I just wanted to continue writing.
I made up a GPT website which doesn't ask its users for any money, where I gave away $8.17 of my own money to 5 people, and made revenue of $25, leaving me a profit of $16.83. The fact that I made that profit even though none of my members chose to complete offers, and just view my own webpages that I paid them to do, make it more exciting and amazing for me. I had created a system where I profit from giving money to poverty stricken teenagers who aren't asked to part with their money. I was so amazed and astounded by this, and I still am today. It felt like I was printing my own money when I ran the service. It was the slot machine that always gave cherries. I wrote a blog post about that called Helping Romania.
How did that feel? Amazing that I had made a system that works. Exciting that I had no idea how the experiment would turn out. Great that I was making money. Valued as I had become a saviour for people.