The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation | Episode 103

• Divergent thinking: involves taking one stimulus to radiate out into different things.

(This is what underlies idea generation).

• Convergent thinking: involves getting to a single answer from one stimulus.

(It requires more focus).

Because there is impossible to be creative without the information to generate it.

• Nigra-Striatal Pathway: involved in generating movements, eye movements, and when you think about movement.

(It’s involved in divergent thinking).

• Mesocortical pathway: it’s involved in motivation and emotions.

(It’s involved in convergent thinking).

• Mesolimbic pathway

(Not involved in creativity)

• Tuberoinfundibular pathway

(Not involved in creativity)

• Open monitoring meditation (For divergent thinking).
• Focused attention meditation (For convergent thinking).
• Yoga nidra (For divergent thinking): it creates a 65% increase in the release of dopamine.
• Explore patterns of movements (for divergent thinking)

Allow whatever thoughts, emotions or ideas arrive to occur.

Focusing your attention on one stimulus.

• If you feel in a good mood (High dopamine levels), avoid external stimuli and start with divergent thinking as soon as possible.
• If you feel in a bad mood (low dopamine levels), seek external stimuli and don’t start divergent thinking just yet.

• Serotonin can increase both Convergent And Divergent Thinking
• Cannabis can increase too much divergent thinking, but those ideas can be forgotten.
• Being in a good mood facilitates creative thinking.

According to this theory, there are three elements to enhance creativity:

• World building: imagine new worlds are posible by creating new rules.
• Perspective shifting: think about others underlying motivations.
• Action generating techniques: force collaboration