Choosing ideas with Convergent Thinking.
Have you ever had trouble in choosing among ideas? It’s a common experience and we all have gone through it multiple times. In this blog, we want to present some techniques that make the process of choosing ideas less confusing, less time consuming and more certain. We hope you have come here from our blog on how to generate ideas using divergent thinking. If not, you might want to check that one out first because this blog builds on what we learnt previously. Divergent thinking and the technique of mind mapping started out with a problem to solve and then left us with a pool of ideas. At this point, we are now ready to use convergent thinking to narrow down our ideas. As the name indicates, convergent thinking is the process of “converging’ our thoughts to a single idea or choice. Suppose we generated around 30 ideas, and we wanted to pick the best one among them. How do we select? There are multiple techniques to help us with convergent thinking. Here, we’ll discuss two of the most used methods. 1) The How Now Wow method: