Generating ideas with Divergent Thinking.
One of the major challenges faced by a content creator is deciding what to create , followed by how to create. There are so many interesting topics to cover depending on your motivation – entertainment, problem solving, information, social issues etc. Fortunately, there are techniques that help you generate better ideas in less time. We will break the whole topic in two parts and address them in two different blogs: 1. Divergent thinking 2. Convergent thinking Our process of idea generation is straightforward. First, you generate a lot of ideas (some of which might be crazy, and even stupid) and then filter out the good ones to eventually picking the best ones . In this blog about divergent thinking, we will focus on the quantity of ideas generated rather than its quality. The term divergent might have given you an initial hint about the process. We start with the problem as the origin to further “diverge” out of it with ideas that point towards the solution. They need not be solutions precisely, however; we