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Divergent and Convergent Thinking

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Divergent thinking generates many possible solutions; convergent thinking narrows to the single best one.

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Listing twenty uses for a brick is divergent; selecting the one that solves the task is convergent.

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Creativity requires both. Generation without selection produces volume rather than a solution.