‘I am very motivated by frustration’: A Yale creativity expert on how to turn your ideas into action

When scientist Zorana Ivcevic Pringle first started out in academia as an undergraduate student, she wanted “to study interesting people.” Unfortunately, that’s not a scientific term, and it carries with it a value judgement (also unscientific, as fun as it sounds). “I started being interested in describing what creative people are like, and understanding that complexity in a creative personality,” she says. “They seem to embody these dichotomies, things that oftentimes don’t go together in...