Creative Pep Talk 512 - The Science of Realizing Creative Potential with Yale Researcher Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, PhD
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Jul 2, 2025 
Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, PhD, a senior research scientist at Yale's Center for Emotional Intelligence, discusses how to harness your creative potential. She emphasizes the importance of transitioning from ideas to execution and how a growth mindset can help overcome fears of failure. Zorana also explores the emotional dualities of creativity and how understanding emotions can enhance your creative process. Tips on balancing work, family, and personal projects, as well as breaking through initial creative limits, provide valuable insights for aspiring artists.
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Creativity Is Inherently Risky
- Creativity is inherently uncertain and without a blueprint, creating risk and difficulty in execution.
- Risks include self-doubt and fear of negative judgment from others which hinder creative follow-through.
Growth Mindset Fuels Creativity
- A growth mindset about creativity means believing it can be developed rather than fixed.
- This belief makes it easier to take creative action despite doubts and uncertainties.
Creative People Embrace Contradictions
- Creative people often hold contradictions, embodying traits that seem oppositional but coexist.
- This non-binary nature helps creativity by allowing flexibility between playfulness and seriousness, introversion and extroversion.
