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Hi, Shortwaver's Burley McCoy filling the host chair today, and I'd like you to meet psychologist Zerana Ifcheverg Pringle.

When Zerana was an undergraduate, she was searching for a thesis topic.

To spark ideas, she was reading everything she could get her hands on, and she stumbled across work from the 1960s during the space age about creativity.

She read that creative people often have personality traits that don't seem to go together.

Creative individuals at times can be extroverted, other times very introverted.

They can be playful, but also very serious about their work, can seem naive and see

and see things and with fresh eyes, but also be very focused in their work.

In the two decades, Zerana's been studying creativity, she's realized that even though creative

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