CONVERGENT THINKING

CONVERGENT THINKING

Convergent is about logical, analytical, often predictable thinking.

Convergent thinking follows the rules of logic and tends to look for a single correct answer. As we study a problem, for instance, we converge, as it were, upon the answer. This kind of thinking is ussually used where we can quantity things. We can therefore, often foretell the results of convergent thinking, one we can see where our thingking lead us.

How well we think depends largely on how clearly we think. If our thinking is faulty, then what we say or write will be faulty. There are logical processes which thinking should follow if it is to show the proper connections between ideas or between different pieces of informations. It must also follow these processes if it is to show the true relationship between one idea, fact, object or event and another.

(summarized from: Gordon Wainwright, STEPS for Succes, Jaico Publishing House: 2004, p.7-9)