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It Is All in How You Think It!

Creativity Challenge 1999 #48

Divergency, Divergency and more Divergency. Every book and article you pick up to read about creativity, creative problem solving and/or creative thinking focuses primarily on divergency or divergent thinking. To be creative must we always be divergent?

Sidney J. Parnes, Ph.D. and Alex Osborn, co-founders of the Creative Education Foundation, its Annual Creative Problem Solving Institute and their Osborn-Parnes' Creative Problem Solving Process, have for over 45 years been teaching, researching and writing about the need to use both divergent and convergent thinking in creative problem solving. Divergency for them is used to generate many ideas, options, possibilities, perspectives, plans. Convergency for them is used to narrow down the numbers into a manageable number of ideas, options, possibilities, perspectives, plans in order to solve problems.

verge (according to my paperback Random House Dictionary) means...

  1. the edge of or border of something
  2. the point beyond which something begins or occurs
  3. to be on the verge or border
  4. to tend toward a certain condition
  5. to change gradually into something else

diverge

  1. to move in different directions from a common point
  2. to differ in opinion, form, etc.
  3. to turn aside or deviate from a path, practice, plan, etc.

converge

  1. to tend to meet at a point or on a line

I believe that we limit ourselves by thinking of just these two words. It seems to treat thinking as if it is two dimensional instead of three, four, or poly-dimensional. So this week my challenge to you is do some of your own original thinking about thinking. My sparker is for you to think about new words we might add...

Make a list of possible prefixes in English or work in your native language or other languages you know and create new words that may add poly-dimensions to creative thinking.

For example...
an-, anti-, pro-, post-, pre-, ex-, sub-, mini-, maxi-, bi-, poly-, multi-,...

Choose one or more prefixes each day and create a new word.

  1. create the word
  2. define the word
  3. think about how it would enhance your creative thinking

Thinking about your thinking will enhance and expand your thinking.

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