Week 4 - Mindmap

This week we were lectured about ways of thinking.

There are two types of thinking, one is the ‘Convergent’ way of thinking, and the other is ‘Divergent’.
Convergent way of thinking is pretty much taken by almost all kinds of people. Convergent thinking is done by thinking straight forwardly or their thinking doesn’t tend to diverge far away from the main idea. These kinds of idea are okay but nowadays ideas like these are mostly considered common clichés.

The divergent thinking process is a must mostly for creative people. The divergent way of thinking consists of creating more creative ideas. Brainstorming and playing around with the problems involved in a certain situation is the divergent way. People like these usually tend to look for alternatives and come with sometimes weird but fantastic ideas. But in the divergent world, you must beware not to lose your motive. The idea usually comes when you think of several ways to solve a problem by bringing it away from the main idea, and this is why people sometimes can go off topic.

Here's an example of divergent thinking process in mind-map...