Ap Dijksterhuis
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549 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Ap Dijksterhuis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Divergent thinking is something you're basically born with.
It's in you as a child.
It's it's it's very active as a as a child.
And convergent thinking is something you you learn over life.
And
that makes you less creative when you uh when you grow older or at least it feels like you're less creative or not as not not as often inspired.
It's because the convergent thinking kicks in
uh more and more often and oft and and usually also way too early in the process and and being creative and
Being inspired by
one way to to put it is trying to find that child, you know, in yourself.
You know, go for that divergent thinking and forget about convergent thinking.
Exactly.
They may use the gas pedal but it's immediately um uh inhibited.
Yeah.
And we have to learn
To not use the brake too often and to tell ourselves, you know, t maybe next week but this week, you know, I wanna do something else and forget about the brakes.
And yes, maybe it's
It's a little dangerous, but um
That's that's part of creativity too, sometimes.
Yes, the art begets art.
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