STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig explains the difference between convergent and divergent thinking, and identifies how the latter allows individuals to create an infinite number of answers to a problem. As a real world example, Seelig tells the story of the legendary one-word admission examination used by All Souls College at the University of Oxford.
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