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Divergent Thinking Will Never Converge On Your Goal
The chaotic power of creativity must be narrowly focused, like a laser, or else it creates distractions.
Creativity Is Divergent Thinking
As in, you trade one thought for another. Divergent thinking is shifting or widening the focus of your mind. “Creativity” is an ambiguous word. What’s specifically going on is that the creative shifts and evolves concepts, and shifts and evolves actions.
The strength of this type of thinking is that it is free. A free mind can engage with whatever concepts it likes — a person with a free mind knows they are free to choose actions that are different from the norm.
Think healthy, positive rebellion. America diverged from England. Then, people diverged from the idea of slavery. Those events are originated in the free mind — the power of the creative, the power to diverge, to change reality.
The weakness of divergent thinking is: if you get stuck in the mode of change, of seeing only possibilities instead of something stable and concrete, you go insane. You can’t do anything about infinite, undifferentiated chaos. And for that matter, it hurts to experience that.
