Situations that increase emotional ambivalence:

• Being placed in higher-status positions; and
• Engaging in organizational recruitment and socialization

A person stuck in an unusual environment can show increased levels of creative thinking, and the fact of the matter is that creativity is the experience of unusual and unexpected events. So if you want to increase creativity, ask yourself if your current environment brings out emotional ambivalence and motivational intensity or not.

• Creative people have messy minds, and have learned to embrace the messiness of the creative process;
• They are people who can easily adapt to their surroundings;
• They have the ability to mix seemingly incompatible states of being such as having open attention with a focused...