Anyone who has ever participated in a brainstorming session knows that most of us do not lack ideas. Yet many people never breathe life into them. To turn inspiration into real achievement, you must decide to act—and then decide to act again and again, despite obstacles, until your thoughts take shape and come to life. This is what psychologist Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, calls the creativity choice.
In her new book The Creativity Choice: The Science of Making Decisions to Turn Ideas into Action, Pringle—a senior research scientist at Yale University’s Center for Emotional Intelligence—draws on twenty years of research to dispel one of our most stubborn myths: that creativity is an innate gift reserved for the Albert Einsteins, Steve Jobses, and Coco Chanels of the world. In fact, creativity is a decision. And it is one that anyone can learn to make.
Pringle studies the role of emotion, emotional intelligence, and self-regulation in creativity and well-being, as well as how to use the arts (and art-related institutions) to promote emotion and creativity skills. She will be in conversation with Marc Brackett, (FAN ’19, ’25), the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University, and the author of the 2019 bestselling book Permission to Feel and 2025’s Dealing with Feeling.
Cost: Free
Julie Deardorff
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