Zorana Ivcevic Pringle's research focuses on the intricacies of creative personalities, emphasizing the interplay between strengths and vulnerabilities. She concentrates on the self-regulation involved in creativity—how individuals nurture their ideas into reality. With her upcoming book, The Creativity Choice, Pringle aims to illuminate how complex and boundary-pushing creative individuals navigate successes and failures in their processes. Her observations reveal that creativity combines enjoyment with significant challenges, reflecting common experiences that resonate with everyone, regardless of their public acclaim or recognition.
Creativity has a lot of fun in it. We don't talk enough about it, but it also has times that are very hard - I mean, excruciatingly hard.
I wanted to study people who are complex, who are doing things that are different, and who are pushing boundaries of what is possible.
They seem to embody these dichotomies, things that oftentimes don't go together in most people. It grabs your attention to something really important.
I became interested in what I ended up calling the process of self-regulation in creativity. And that is, how do you make yourself do it?
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