Have You Ever Had a Hunch? (Creative Thinking) - Softcover

Palestrant, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984885218 ISBN 13: 9780984885213

Publisher: EpCreative Enterprises, 2014

Synopsis

Reclaim and explore your own creativity, creative potential and intuition by exploring the educational, sociological, psychological, and political influences on your independent thinking. However much you might have created, there is always so much more to learn!

About this title

About the Author

South African-born writer and artist, Ellen Palestrant, currently resides in Arizona. She was educated in South African and Britain and immigrated with her family to the USA in 1987. Palestrant has been a game inventor, hydroponic farmer, special education teacher, college instructor (English, Humanities and Creative Writing),  co-publisher of a college press, television script writer (adult documentary and children's animation) and film-maker. Her published books include Nosedive, Johannesburg One Hundred, Remembering Dolores, Have you Ever Had a Hunch? The Importance of Creative Thinking, I touched a Star in My Dream Last Night, Pretzel on Prozac, The World of Glimpse, If you Can Make It, Mr. Harris...So Can I. Ellen Palestrant is a Creativity Consultant.

From the Back Cover

"Have You Ever Had a Hunch? is a powerful tool for self-growth and an invaluable gift for anyone wanting to explore their own creativity. Read it."
- Ashley Lazarus, Award-winning New York film director and producer, Founder of the Lamed Foundation

"Have You Ever Had a Hunch? is an inspiring, uplifting and motivating book that took me into a new dimension of creativity. Thank you for the insight and perception that made me reach deep inside myself and pull out my potential."
- Annette Tucker, composer, lyricist, teacher, writer and producer whose songs have been recorded by Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, Michael Jackson, Sonny and Cher, Maureen McGovern and others

"I have always thought - and still do - that it's impossible to teach creativity. But it is possible to unleash it. And that is exactly what Have You Ever Had a Hunch? does. Turn yourself loose. Read this book and let your creativity take flight."
- Joe Rassulo, Emmy Award-winning actor/writer/producer/director and host of a syndicated radio talk show

"In a series of short, to the point chapters, Ellen Palestrant strips away the layers of inhibition and repression that encumber all of us. Her style is light, but penetrating, and her range of examples will stimulate even the most skeptical. This is a book I'll enthusiastically recommend to students, friends and family to help them act upon and fulfill their own hunches."
-Robert S. Tancer, LL.B., LL.M., Attorney at Law and Director of the International Health Management Program at the American Graduate School of International Management

"Have You Ever Had a Hunch? is a witty, cogent presentation of creativity and an urgent defense of intuition. This book is as welcome as a seed catalogue after a long, cold winter and, likewise, filled with hope and possibilities. There is some-thing to contemplate on every page."
- Juanita Havill, poet and author of more than a dozen children's books and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year award and Reading Rainbow Selection

5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book to all creatives who didn't even know that they are creative - highly recommended!

Byzoranaon September 16, 2015

Format: Paperback

This is a well written and clearly structured book aiming at describing what creativity is, how it can be enhanced, promoted and nurtured and why it should be just that. It doesn't have a regular approach on creativity, meaning that Ms. Ellen Palestrant doesn't seem to want to put any emphasis on what she believes could scale down the massive outreach of creativity as a phenomenon.

Today, considering the amount of time we spend in distractions and suppressing our own creative abilities, this book is refreshing - it really reminds us of what we need to feel good again, what matters, which part of ourselves we might to want to give a little more attention and why. It also explains why it is important to do just that, not only for ourselves but for the new international atmosphere in which being creative is actually, finally - something good!

I would like to recommend this book to everyone - it's really easy to read, understand and it gives you a lot of new insights into creativity and allowing yourself to have a hunch.

Edition details

• Publisher: EpCreative Enterprises
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984885218
• ISBN 13: 9780984885213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182