Though they initially seemed to require divergent career paths, the more science he learned, the more creativity he saw embodied in it.
We studied brainstorming by embedding it in a rule induction task that initially requires divergent thinking but increasingly requires convergent thinking as evidence accumulates across trials.
When d/R→0, traditional transformation optics cloaks require divergent parameters in the cloaking shell (see the Supplementary Information), which make the realization of ultrathin cloaks quite difficult, especially in the optical frequency regime.
I like the way Newsweek described it in a recent essay on creativity: "To be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result)." And where does divergent thinking come from?
In Lehrer's account, the task requires divergent thinking: the kind that yields multiple good solutions, as when psychologists ask people to generate alternate uses for objects (e.g., using a brick to prop open a window or to cook a chicken rather than to build a house).
After all, blockchain is a revolutionary technology that has the potential to transform many industries and the way we do business, but doing so will require divergent thinking, different perspectives, creativity and the ability to innovate, all of which, research shows time and time again, are driven by diversity – gender included.
"production of something original and useful... to be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result)." These challenges beg for an integrative approach.
Creativity requires divergent thinking, or the ability to generate unique ideas by exploring many possible solutions, or "thinking outside the box". Young children are often skilled at divergent thinking, as social norms and life experience have yet to force constraints on their imaginations.
This is problematic, as previous research has concluded that effective implementation requires divergent views of complex healthcare interventions to achieve some measure of agreement [ 54].
The maintenance of multiple functionally different alleles in a population requires divergent selection – for which sickle-cell anemia affords the best precedent.
Hence, speciation within a single population may occur when environmental heterogeneity requires divergent local adaptation in a sensory modality that is used in mate choice, a situation that may not be uncommon in nature [ 1].
