Name: The surprising habits of...
Uploaded: 2025-11-05
Description: there's no creativity boost. It's only when you're told that you're going to be working on this problem, and then you start procrastinating, but the task is still active in the back of your mind, that you start to incubate. Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

Statesman

Martin Filler

Some museum boards think that choosing an architect can be reduced to a science, but it comes down to a matter of taste, pure and simple. A shortlist of prospective designers speaks volumes about the likely outcome. If the candidates' styles are too divergent, the search committee doesn't know what it wants.

American Critic

Ray Stannard Baker

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

American Journalist

K. Flay

I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.

American Musician

Ronen Bergman

Relying on intelligence as the chief touchstone for decisions about whether and when to attack creates a wide opening for misunderstandings, divergent interpretations, and vulnerabilities to parties with an interest in either attack or delay.

Israeli Journalist

Victoria Moran

I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

American Writer

Patti Davis

My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.

American Celebrity

Jose Rizal

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.

Filipino Writer

Ansel Elgort

It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.

American Actor

Park Geun-hye

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

South Korean Politician

Use 'divergent' to suggest variety in directions or opinions, highlighting differences.

Variety of Directions

'Divergent' often implies a shared starting point before splitting into different directions.

Common Origin

When comparing two things, use 'divergent' to emphasize how they are distinct.

Highlight Differences

'Divergent' is useful to stress the uniqueness or uncommon nature of something.

Emphasizing Unique Quality

In math, 'divergent' describes a series that grows without approaching a specific limit.

No Finite Limit

'Divergent' in genetics implies species developing unique traits from a common point.

Evolutionary Development

In linguistics, 'divergent' refers to languages evolving separately after splitting from a common ancestor.

Separate Language Evolution

 there's no creativity boost. It's only when you're told that you're going to be working on this problem, and then you start procrastinating, but the task is still active in the back of your mind, that you start to incubate. Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

The surprising habits of...

 started out with identical sets of rules in both the sense of laws and regulations, but also in the deeper senses of understandings, norms, culture, values and beliefs. When they separated, they made choices that led to very divergent paths for their sets of rules.

Paul Romer: Why the...

 Because it gives us a new way of tackling problems. Instead of defaulting to our normal convergent approach where we make the best choice out of available alternatives, it encourages us to take a divergent approach, to explore new alternatives, new solutions,

Tim Brown urges...

 divergence and convergence. And I think it’s probably in the divergent mode that we most need playfulness. Perhaps in convergent mode we need to be more serious. And so being able to move between those modes is really quite important. So, it’s where there’s a

Tim Brown: Tales of...

 have inspired new research in developing flexible robots made of soft materials. And studying how intelligence can arise along such a divergent evolutionary path can help us understand more about intelligence and consciousness in general.

Why the octopus brain is...

 exquisite flavor in the combination of knowledge from two different parts of the world of science from two radically different approaches to exploration what could - such seemingly divergent areas of inquiry have in common as we create a

Mapping the Unknown,...

 And as one moment follows another, each possibility begets another set of divergent futures. Borges laid out infinite expanses of time in his labyrinths, but he also explored the idea of condensing all of time into a single moment.

Infinity according to...

 In my lifetime, it's never felt this divided. It's never felt this noisy with divergent voices. And it's never felt this much in need of places where voices might connect and converge. And it's my hope that this wooden sculpture,

Mind-blowing stage...

 and are also ecologically divergent, you will get a better understanding of what the evolutionary prior of that site is, i.e., if it is important for the mammal to function, for its survival, it will be the same

Emma Teeling: The secret...

 But the journeys of these early explorers are not forgotten. Despite their divergent fates, they are forever joined in history, and in the name of the research base that marks the South Pole.

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