Integrated Divergence
The result of creative, divergent thinking. This combines Generative Creativity for 'original' thought with an integrated approach.
This is a key to genius - where Divergent Thinking and Convergent Thinking are combined, such that convergent thinking is used to refine divergent thinking, but one starts with a divergent approach rather than a logical approach.
Genius relies on a second quality: integration. First, we must think in a divergent way - to open up possibility. Second, we must think in an integrated way, meaning studying the different approaches for understanding something. Different approaches that can be considered for integration might be:
- Interdisciplinary - covering multiple disciplines of knowledge, at least 2. 3% of university majors are interdisciplinary in 2016 [1]
- Integrated - covering multiple disciplines of know-how. Knowhow is practical knowledge. Integrated learning would include knowledge, know-how, and knowledge by acquaintance [2] such as knowing London or how a food tastes.
- Teleological - studying the know-why. Teleology and praxiology are studies of purpose, hence critical to motivation and drive.
- Multiple intelligence - moral intelligence, emotional intelligence, and logic (standard intelligence), as well as the Gardner model of multiple intelligence (kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, spatial, logic, visual, linguistic, musical, naturalistic, [3]. Existential intelligence is important as it tries to answer the why of existence?
- Epistemology - the study of Why. [4]. Here it is important to note 3 ways of knowing - empirical (you can perceive it with the senses), rational (you can conceive it with your brain), and skepticism (does it exist at all - which is the study of General Semantics)
- Multimodal - using different modalities of the 4 human ones of VARK
- Multimedia - 'integration of multiple forms of content such as text, audio, images, video, and interactive elements into a single digital platform'
- Science - the study of how things work
- Spiritual - Anthroposophy by Steiner, Ponerology, spiritual psychology, philosophy, theology, neuroscientific study [5]
