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How to use your emotions as a creativity tool with Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle
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#006 - We’re trained to leave our emotions at the doorstep when it comes to work but using emotions consciously and intentionally can make individuals and teams more creative, more motivated and happier. This is according to Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, who studies the role of emotion and emotional intelligence in creativity. Zorana shares her insights on using different emotions for the divergent and convergent parts of a design process and how designers and facilitators can manage their and their team’s emotions to help them be more creative. We also talk about the benefits of acknowledging your feelings at work instead of hiding them. Zorana also shares her tips for bringing more emotional intelligence into your workplace as a leader, individual contributor or even someone starting a new role and how even a single individual can spread a positive emotion contagion by being the first one to embrace their emotions.
In this episode:
- The types of emotions needed for divergent and convergent thinking
- How and when to introduce constraints into a creative process
- Acknowledging and labelling feelings to relieve the pressure of hiding them
- Bringing emotional intelligence into work proactively
- Managing emotions in a new role
- Talking to co-workers about how you’re feeling
- Importance of rituals to begin and end meetings to prevent negative emotional contagion
Shownotes
Join the Design Feeling Fireside chat with Zorana on Thu 24th Feb 2022 2pm UK time
https://www.designfeeling.co/fireside/
Zorana's blog on Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/zorana-ivcevic-pringle-phd
Gravitational waves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave
Emotional granularity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_granularity
Rituals for Work by Kursat Ozenc and Margaret Hagan
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41544270-rituals-for-work
Courage to Create by Rolly May
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/646141.The_Courage_to_Create
Zorana's website
https://www.zorana-ivcevic-pringle.com/
Subscribe to Zorana’s newsletter
https://creativitydecision.substack.com/
Zorana's Twitter
https://twitter.com/ZoranaPsych
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Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. What is an emotion? (00:02:50)
3. How did Zorana get started in the study of creativity? (00:04:50)
4. What is creativity? (00:11:39)
5. Connection between emotions and creativity (00:16:36)
6. Fostering emotions that enhance creativity (00:23:02)
7. Managing emotions for creative idea generation activities (00:25:13)
8. Shifting into pessimistic moods for critical thinking (00:29:18)
9. Managing collective emotions for creativity at work (00:34:44)
10. Acknowledging difficult emotions at work (00:35:43)
11. Feeling safe to bring emotions to work (00:41:13)
12. Being proactive bringing emotional intelligence at work (00:45:49)
13. Managing emotions in a new role (00:50:40)
14. Importance of spaces and rituals (00:54:15)
15. Next exciting thing for Zorana (00:57:43)
16. Recources Zorana would recommend (00:59:48)
17. Zorana's message to humanity (01:03:54)
18. The need for Design Feeling (01:05:41)
19. Recap (01:08:33)
20. Contacting Zorana (01:10:55)
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