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Gordon is best when she shows Merton as a divergent thinker who felt compelled to share his thoughts on everything from social justice, war and nuclear weapons to the contemporary Catholic Church's lack of aesthetic taste.

Merton's words, others' faith and ice

That person, perhaps, is a divergent thinker. Divergent thinking is the cognitive process of generating alternative ideas or possible solutions to problems (Wang, Hao, Ku, Grabner, & Fink, 2017).

Cultivating New Ideas and Solutions in the Occupational Therapy Profession by Fostering Divergent Thinking

If you're a divergent thinker, you may want to work on observing the world around you and allowing yourself to be inspired by what you find.

Unlocking your creativity: a guide to what makes you imaginative, innovative and resourceful

I have received so many incredible works via this lesson and have found that by not limiting their materials, they are free to be the creative and divergent thinkers we aspire for them to be.

Poetry & Song Lyrics

Throughout American history, Sitaraman demonstrates a common thread that connected the Jacksonians, the Republicans during Reconstruction, the populists, the 20th-century progressives, and FDR's crew, in which otherwise divergent thinkers have tied our Constitution to our economy.

Goodbye to all that democracy: can our constitution co-exist with extremes of economic inequality?

These ideologically divergent thinkers would form the basis for the 20th-century existentialism of thinkers as varied as Heidegger, Jaspers, Sartre and Camus.

The intellectual challenge of doing bioethics in South Africa

The perceived significance of divergent thinking supports findings by Hudson (1966, quoted in Quilter and Harper 1988, p.121) who found that the rule obeying behaviour and conformity of convergent thinkers was more appropriate for mathematics as it is taught in many classrooms than the thinking styles of divergent thinkers. The perceived rigidity of mathematics conflicts with the thinking styles of divergent thinkers, who wish to explore various approaches to mathematics.

Maths anxiety: Steve Dossel, an educational psychologist of Toowoomba, writes about maths anxiety and the implications it has for teachers

But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

Art and technology

Rather than everyone focusing on a question with a single answer, divergent thinkers look for many possible solutions to a problem.

Divergent convergence Part 1: cross-genre, multi-platform, transmedia experiences in school libraries