1058: Getting Creative Breakthroughs and Turning Them Into Action with Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle shares the tools and strategies for seeing the creative process through from start to finish.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to feel more confident taking risks

2) How to make creative blocks work in your favor

3) How to get the most out of AI for work

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— ABOUT ZORANA —

With more than 25 years as a scientist studying creativity, Zorana brings insights into the nature of the creative process, from the first decision to engage with new ideas to its culmination in creative performances and products. She is a scientist at Yale University, author, and speaker. Zorana's work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, ArtNet, US News, Education Week, Science Daily, El Pais, and others, and she is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and Creativity Post.

• Book: The Creativity Choice: The Science of Making Decisions to Turn Ideas into Action

• Website: Zorana-Ivcevic-Pringle.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Discovery-oriented behavior and the originality of creative products: A study with artists.” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jacob Getzels

• Study: “When do startups scale? Large-scale evidence from job postings” by Saerom (Ronnie) Lee and J. Daniel Kim

• Study: The power of the ‘be creative’ instruction: A meta-analytical evaluation” by Xing Wei, Wangbing Shen, Haiying Long, Fang Lu

• Book: The Courage to Create by Rollo May

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0:00.0	How we are feeling influences how we are thinking.
0:13.1	There are times when ideas are flowing and flowing and flowing and flowing,
0:16.9	and you are feeling positive and you're feeling energized.
0:20.5	And when you are in these kinds of moods, you can very quickly come up with ideas.
0:26.2	But at other times, ideas are not coming and everything seems stupid, right?
0:32.9	Well, it turns out that those kinds of feelings are also useful.
0:37.8	They're just not useful for coming up with ideas.
0:40.9	They are very useful for critical thinking.
0:43.3	And if we take creative work as not just coming up with ideas,
0:48.3	but also developing them, making them into best products we possibly can, then you see how this could be helpful.
1:01.0	That's Dr. Zerana Pringle.
1:06.0	She's a scientist at Yale who has spent over 25 years researching the field of creativity.
1:11.5	Her work has been widely published, and she recently released her first book, The Creativity Choice,
1:15.9	The Science of Making Decisions to Turn Ideas into Action.
1:19.5	So you'll learn one, how to feel more confident when taking risks.
1:23.1	Two, how to make creative blocks work in your favor.
1:26.4	And three, how to get the most out of AI for work.
1:29.5	And if you want to get a summary write-up of these actionable takeaways,
1:32.0	I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter.
1:34.6	That's found at awesome at your job.com.
1:36.8	I'm Pete McItis.
1:38.0	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
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