Divergent and Critical Thinking

Holding 2 opposites together - how do we engage in both divergent and critical thinking at the same time? This means - considering creativity - and considering reality checks within that creativity? How to reconcile divergent and critical thinking by Integrated Design and Transcending and Including. General Semantics applied to driving ourselves sane. How.to perceive knowledge accurately, and the role of material security (and thus Reptilian brain). Baseline and how to lie with graphs. Understanding orders of magnitude of quantities and phenomena.