Ap Dijksterhuis

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549 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 7 Sep

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Hidden Brain · Blowing Up Your Life · 7 Sep 2026 podcast

And if you focus on on

only consciously, in a very narrow way

uh when buying a house.

You're probably gonna use the wrong criteria in the end.

There's this old classic psychology study where um people devised a test battery to measure creativity, and it turned out that the question

What can you do with a paper clip?

Very simple question.

Was very central in that in that test battery.

And then the researchers doing that experiment they looked at the answers people gave, and they they you know they made a distinction between people that were very, very good and they called them highly creative.

And it turns out among young children, almost everybody scored very high.

highly on creativity, much b they did m way, way better than than the adults.

And that led to the development of a theory that there's really two two kinds of thinking.

One is divergent thinking, that is the wild associative creative thinking.

And the other is convergence thinking.

That's the sort of the

The voice in your head saying things like, Oh, but is this really necessary?

Oh, is this possible?

Isn't this too expensive?

You know, this this is the you could say the divergent thinking is the uh gas pedal in the car and convergent thinking is the brake.

Now, it turns out that

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