Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

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On the other hand, if you have never been formally diagnosed but resonate strongly with the descriptors for one or more types of neurodivergence, you might benefit from seeking a professional to find out for sure.

You can’t just set your heart on Disney World without considering practical factors, like budget or location. According to Klein and Badia, distant associates are tracked down and chosen using a strictly lexical-based modeling technique, where both the frequency of co-occurrence and the frequency of each term in the corpus are valued in the convergent and divergent parts of the process. Using inspiration from your previous brainstorms, you can truly make your event the greatest it can be, or solve any problem efficiently. The first process has been modeled by emulating responses to the Remote Associates Test (RAT) by Olteţeanu and Falomir (2015) [9] and Klein and Badia (2015). While neurodivergence is common, many people do not realize they are neurodivergent until they reach adulthood.Rather than doing them in the same meeting, try “batching” your divergent and convergent thinking tasks. This study highlighted the link between behaviours of divergent thinking, or creativity, in playfulness during childhood and those displayed in later years, in creative adolescents and adults. Regardless of causation, of note here is that women’s internal lives were barely acknowledged or considered.

Give your team members the opportunity to choose which type of thinking they would like to engage in (if they have to pick. This wonderfully positive and accessible introduction to the neurodiversity paradigm is packed with life-changing insight for anyone whose way of experiencing the world diverges from the ordinary. Once that is chosen, both groups will present that idea and the decision will be put to a vote amongst both groups. You will find that some team members have a hard time with convergent thinking, or others fail to speak up once the convergent thinking is over!Switching back and forth between the two may not seem like multitasking, but it is a form of multitasking. Physicians began to manage these centers and in turn medicalize interactions with patients as opposed to relying on more gentle, human dynamics that brought out “balance” in the individual. The increased medicalization of challenges affecting the brain and behavior meant that less and less attention was being given to how broader sociological and historical contexts would affect people’s emotions and mental states. But when these centers started to be influenced by medical professionals, the focus on moral treatment lessened, and a hybrid approach combining medicine and moral treatment began to take hold.