Keep asking questions until the jolt happens. When looking for ideas, this is the feeling you want, so if it doesn’t happen right away, don’t worry. The analogy is that the moment you get a great idea is like getting hit with a large jolt of electricity - your mind becomes excited and can’t wait to get started. This is a dynamic to look out for and facilitate with care. Which explains much of the conflict and idea squashing that can happen. Sometimes there can be a clash of people thinking in opposite modes. Of all the places we could start, what feels like the most appropriate?.Put a sticker on the three words that resonate with you the most?.Which of the questions sums up your current challenge?.Which five ideas have the most potential?.When we think in convergent thinking mode, we are not open to new ideas because we attempt to make decisions.Įxample questions to encourage convergent thinking: Usually, this is done by filtering or voting on collections of ideas or datasets. We narrow down the options in convergent thinking, finding a smaller selection of possibilities.Ĭonvergent thinking is often described as a more analytical and closed mode. It is an expansive and open mode of thinking. I often describe Divergent Thinking as a mode when we generate lots of different options. When we feel like this, it is impossible to be genuinely innovative. At the same time, convergent thinking looks for the correct answer to a specific problem.Ĭulturally, we are trained to think in ‘right or wrong’ terms and that the only way to be creative is to come up with new ‘right’ answers. Our focus will be: how we can create the right intention to be more creative.ĭivergent thinking involves exploring lots of possible solutions to a problem. Regardless of the model, we use to understand creativity, at its heart is a desire and an intention to be creative. Today, we look at mental models associated with ideas, creativity, and originality. In our last issue, we explored the notion of innate creative thinking. Reach out with comments, questions and feedback at or on Twitter at If someone forwarded you this email, subscribe to get the Dialogic Learning Weekly sent straight to your inbox. Thanks for spending part of your day with me. I’m Tom, writing to you from Melbourne, Australia. Hello there! Welcome to the Dialogic Learning Weekly.
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