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Defining Divergent Thought
Divergent thinking refers to the ability to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions in an effort to find one that works. It involves bringing facts and data together through convergent thought and then applying logic and knowledge to solve problems or make decisions, or imagine, create or design . It starts from a common point and moves outward in diverging directions to involve a variety of aspects or perspectives.
Divergent thinking is a method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible creative solutions. Typically, it occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing, "non-linear" manner, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion.
Divergent thinking is your right brain (the emotional, artistic and creative side) and it’s responsible for the questions WHY or WHY NOT?
He is CHAOS.
Divergency involves the creative generation concepts and ideas that provide multiple answers to the question WHY. Think of a flowing stream. Other terms for divergent thinking are “flexible thinking” or “fluid intelligence.” Flexibility and fluidity are the key to triggering answers to flow. Many possible solutions can be explored in a short amount of time and unexpected connections are drawn.
When we have the answers to WHY then we need the answer to it’s twin, the question of HOW. Divergent thinking may throw his hands up after stressing over this question and say $@$@&!)!?!! Then in sweeps convergent thought from his corner office over in the left brain. He has been doing math with feverish delight.
He is ORDER.
His job is to help shoot for a single, correct solution to the HOW question. He’s your logical, rational thinking. After divergency has been completed, convergence formulates the process flow for the execution of ideas. He organizes and structures the ideas and produces solutions by calculating and analyzing with logic and reasoning. He brings order by reducing the high volume of ideas created through divergent thinking to a small group of the most efficient ideas or one single idea that is logical to pursue. One logical solution.
CHAOS AND ORDER
Chaos, according to the ancient Greeks, opposed Cosmos, the order of the universe. While Cosmos toiled to maintain order, Chaos kept just as busy unraveling it. Creativity unravels established patterns and delivers revelation or the “aha!” moments. The truly creative changes and the big shifts occur right at the edge of chaos.
Divergent thought throws all the idea elements up on the board by way of the state of CHAOS (creative output). Convergent thought comes in behind it and ties the elements all together with logical and rational thought and reasoning thus creating ORDER. Divergent designs and convergent implements.
Now what if convergent was tasked with the question of WHY? He would calculate the risks, analyze the data and produce one answer that is the most effective for the least amount of cost. Would it be the best product design? Not necessarily, in fact it’s rarely the best. But it’s cheap to produce and gets the job done efficiently even if the design looks like it was produced with crayons on a car seat.
So what do we do? Everyone knows you are either right brained or left brained, divergent or convergent.
WRONG.
That is a myth.
You use both modes of thinking. You were taught or conditioned to think that you didn’t, however there is some basis of truth to one side dominating over the other. You are WHOLE BRAINED. You may have a preference or you may seem to be more creative than logical. But you use both effectively. What you do is exercise both parts of your brain when you produce your work. Use your creativity and artistic expressions with your emotions and feelings to coax the answers from your right brain. Then use your left brain to collect the data, understand it, analyze it and then execute it. You do it unconsciously but there are ways to improve it. It takes practice but you can train your brain to be better on both sides.
Mindfulness, being mindfully creative, will help you.
Divergent thinking is a method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible creative solutions. Typically, it occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing, "non-linear" manner, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion.
Divergent thinking is your right brain (the emotional, artistic and creative side) and it’s responsible for the questions WHY or WHY NOT?
He is CHAOS.
Divergency involves the creative generation concepts and ideas that provide multiple answers to the question WHY. Think of a flowing stream. Other terms for divergent thinking are “flexible thinking” or “fluid intelligence.” Flexibility and fluidity are the key to triggering answers to flow. Many possible solutions can be explored in a short amount of time and unexpected connections are drawn.
When we have the answers to WHY then we need the answer to it’s twin, the question of HOW. Divergent thinking may throw his hands up after stressing over this question and say $@$@&!)!?!! Then in sweeps convergent thought from his corner office over in the left brain. He has been doing math with feverish delight.
He is ORDER.
His job is to help shoot for a single, correct solution to the HOW question. He’s your logical, rational thinking. After divergency has been completed, convergence formulates the process flow for the execution of ideas. He organizes and structures the ideas and produces solutions by calculating and analyzing with logic and reasoning. He brings order by reducing the high volume of ideas created through divergent thinking to a small group of the most efficient ideas or one single idea that is logical to pursue. One logical solution.
CHAOS AND ORDER
Chaos, according to the ancient Greeks, opposed Cosmos, the order of the universe. While Cosmos toiled to maintain order, Chaos kept just as busy unraveling it. Creativity unravels established patterns and delivers revelation or the “aha!” moments. The truly creative changes and the big shifts occur right at the edge of chaos.
Divergent thought throws all the idea elements up on the board by way of the state of CHAOS (creative output). Convergent thought comes in behind it and ties the elements all together with logical and rational thought and reasoning thus creating ORDER. Divergent designs and convergent implements.
Now what if convergent was tasked with the question of WHY? He would calculate the risks, analyze the data and produce one answer that is the most effective for the least amount of cost. Would it be the best product design? Not necessarily, in fact it’s rarely the best. But it’s cheap to produce and gets the job done efficiently even if the design looks like it was produced with crayons on a car seat.
So what do we do? Everyone knows you are either right brained or left brained, divergent or convergent.
WRONG.
That is a myth.
You use both modes of thinking. You were taught or conditioned to think that you didn’t, however there is some basis of truth to one side dominating over the other. You are WHOLE BRAINED. You may have a preference or you may seem to be more creative than logical. But you use both effectively. What you do is exercise both parts of your brain when you produce your work. Use your creativity and artistic expressions with your emotions and feelings to coax the answers from your right brain. Then use your left brain to collect the data, understand it, analyze it and then execute it. You do it unconsciously but there are ways to improve it. It takes practice but you can train your brain to be better on both sides.
Mindfulness, being mindfully creative, will help you.
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