SNAP: Seizing Your Aha! Moments by Katherine Ramsland

SNAP: Seizing Your Aha! Moments


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SNAP: Seizing Your Aha! Moments Katherine Ramsland
Publisher: Prometheus Books


Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Deborah Blum, Author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York "Chance favors the prepared mind." —Louis Pasteur Sudden flashes of inspiration have triggered many discoveries and inventions throughout history. Are such Aha! moments merely random or is there a way to train the brain to harness these seemingly unpredictable creative insights? In this fascinating overview of the latest neuroscience findings on spontaneous thought processes or "snaps," Dr. Katherine Ramsland describes how everyone can learn to improve the likelihood of their own Eureka! moments by adopting certain rewarding attitudes and habits. As Dr. Ramsland explains, snaps are much more than new ideas. Snaps are insights plus momentum—they instantly compel or snap us toward action. They often occur after ordinary problem solving hits an impasse. We may feel stuck, but while we're in a quandary, the brain is rebooting. Then, when we least expect it, the solution pops into our heads. Ramsland describes the results of numerous scientific experiments studying this phenomenon. She also recounts intriguing stories of people in diverse disciplines who have had a snap experience. Both the research and the stories illustrate that it's possible to enhance our facility for snap moments by training ourselves to scan, sift, and solve. Scanning involves learning such habits as watching for opportunities and ideas, setting goals, coordinating short- and long-term memory, and letting the mind wander creatively. Sifting has to do with our mental maps, developing mental flexibility, balancing practice and play, and shaping information into new patterns. Finally, solutions occur when trust in our inner resources outweighs perceived risk and we know when to stop thinking and relax. Written in an accessible, jargon-free narrative, which weaves together the latest research with illuminating stories of innovative people, Snap teaches us how to cultivate our own inner epiphanies to gain an edge in business, career paths, and even our personal lives. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: "I've always said intuition is the highest form of knowledge. SNAP shows me why I might be right.... Highly recommended." —Dean Koontz, author of What the Night Knows "Both motivational and informative, Snap is a treat to read! Katherine Ramsland will singlehandedly increase the number of bright ideas to be born in the coming decade!" —Shelley Carson, PhD, author, Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life "Katherine Ramsland's Snap: Seizing Your Aha! Moments is one of the most affirmative and encouraging books I've ever read. It goes right to the heart of human frustrations, of what gets us stuck when we're in the midst of problems, and it suggests ways to build momentum and move forward, enlisting the full (and mostly unsuspected) powers of the human mind. Most encouraging, it gives us a history of problem solving, narrating spectacular aha! moments, from Archimedes to Watson and Crick, that led to breakthroughs, great turning-points in human history. It's thrilling to watch, and instructive, too, because out of these many well-told instances, Ramsland draws cogent, effective suggestions to help readers approach situations in which they can't seem to get over a block toward a solution. And who better to take us on this journey than Ramsland, who has made a career out of teaching us about creativity, about thinking differently? Except—as her book reminds us—it's not so much thinking differently as allowing our minds to be open and alert to all the ways they already think, to enlist both the background of the unconscious and the desktop of the conscious, the quiet brain and the declarative brain, to immerse and break free. Katherine Ramsland's Snap will help many readers relax into their most powerful selves. This whole book is one big aha! moment." —John Timpane, Assistant Books Editor, Philadelphia Inquirer

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