Published 2012 by Prometheus Books

SNAP: Seizing Your Aha! Moments. Copyright © 2012 by Katherine Ramsland. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ramsland, Katherine M., 1953–

SNAP : seizing your aha! moments / by Katherine Ramsland.

       p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–1–61614–464–7 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978–1–61614–465–4 (ebook)
1. Inspiration. 2. Creative thinking. I. Title.

BF410.R36 2012
153.3—dc23

2011041552

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper