Innovative breakthroughs are the result of the interplay between convergent and divergent modes of thinking.
The interplay between convergent and divergent thinking is recapitulated even in something as trivial as memory.
The kind of convergent, focussed thinking people seek from Adderall can interfere with divergent, creative thought.
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Several people responded that convergent methodologies like reading and even memorization are not necessarily antithetical to innovation.
But the convergent approach of both robotics solutions and actuator efficiency that DARPA is taking should be applauded.
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Dr Conway-Morris has arrived at this view from a detailed study of what is known as convergent evolution.
Focusing on a single problem and memorizing the prison and its routines are perfect examples of linear or convergent thinking.
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The double helix nature of DNA may have come to Watson divergently in a dream, but it was preceded by years of convergent thinking.
Indeed, it was this modernization process that shaped fundamental evolutions - sometimes convergent, sometimes divergent - in Japan as well as in the Arab world.
The broadcasters still have an eye on the "convergent future", however.
Bosnia is spectacularly situated in a rich culturally convergent mix on the Balkan Peninsula, with Croatia to the north, Serbia to the east and Montenegro to the southeast.
For example, in a few minutes, and without even leaving Wikipedia, you can travel from the Tasmanian Devil to Tasmanian devils to Tasmanian tigers to thylacines to convergent evolution.
Several convergent data highlight how countries that have developed most rapidly are those who have invested in education and health, recalled the Director-General, citing the experience of South Korea.
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This status offers them the potential to become the mainstream distribution networks of the future, opening up considerable possibilities to conceive, design and launch innovative convergent services across devices to provide a new compelling consumer experience.
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That similarity, though, is almost certainly the result of convergent evolution rather than a common origin, since the last joint ancestor of Crassicorophium and spiders lived way longer ago than the ancestor of Crassicorophium and barnacles.
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