Podcasts about Divergent thinking

Ep 63. Unkonventionelle Arbeitsplätze: Wie kreativ machen sie uns wirklich? (Juni 2025) Basierend auf dem Artikel „Spaces for Creativity: Unconventional Workspaces and Divergent Thinking" von Sunkee Lee und Manuel E. Sosa. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.02052  Der Podcast zur Unternehmensführung und Organisation für die Praxis, der Ihnen aktuelle Erkenntnisse aus der internationalen Spitzenforschung kurz und unkompliziert näherbringt.  Von und mit Prof. Dr. Markus Reitzig, Professor für Unternehmensstrategie an der Universität Wien. Dieser Podcast ist Teil des brand eins Netzwerks.

I, Stewart Alsop, welcomed Woody Wiegmann to this episode of Crazy Wisdom, where we explored the fascinating and sometimes unsettling landscape of Artificial Intelligence. Woody, who is deeply involved in teaching AI, shared his insights on everything from the US-China AI race to the radical transformations AI is bringing to education and society at large.Check out this GPT we trained on the conversationTimestamps01:17 The AI "Cold War": Discussing the intense AI development race between China and the US.03:04 Opaque Models & Education's Resistance: The challenge of opaque AI and schools lagging in adoption.05:22 AI Blocked in Schools: The paradox of teaching AI while institutions restrict access.08:08 Crossing the AI Rubicon: How AI users are diverging from non-users into different realities.09:00 Budgetary Constraints in AI Education: The struggle for resources like premium AI access for students.12:45 Navigating AI Access for Students: Woody's ingenious workarounds for the premium AI divide.19:15 Igniting Curiosity with AI: Students creating impressive projects, like catapult websites.27:23 Exploring Grok and AI Interaction: Debating IP concerns and engaging with AI ("Morpheus").46:19 AI's Societal Impact: AI girlfriends, masculinity, and the erosion of traditional skills.Key InsightsThe AI Arms Race: Woody highlights a "cold war of nerdiness" where China is rapidly developing AI models comparable to GPT-4 at a fraction of the cost. This competition raises questions about data transparency from both sides and the strategic implications of superintelligence.Education's AI Resistance: I, Stewart Alsop, and Woody discuss the puzzling resistance to AI within educational institutions, including outright blocking of AI tools. This creates a paradox where courses on AI are taught in environments that restrict its use, hindering practical learning for students.Diverging Realities: We explore how individuals who have crossed the "Rubicon" of AI adoption are now living in a vastly different world than those who haven't. This divergence is akin to past technological shifts but is happening at an accelerated pace, impacting how people learn, work, and perceive reality.The Fading Relevance of Traditional Coding: Woody argues that focusing on teaching traditional coding languages like Python is becoming outdated in the age of advanced AI. AI can handle much of the detailed coding, shifting the necessary skills towards understanding AI systems, effective prompting, and higher-level architecture.AI as the Ultimate Tutor: The advent of AI offers the potential for personalized, one-on-one tutoring for everyone, a far more effective learning method than traditional classroom lectures. However, this potential is hampered by institutional inertia and a lack of resources for tools like premium AI subscriptions for students.Curiosity as the AI Catalyst: Woody shares anecdotes of students, even those initially disengaged, whose eyes light up when using AI for creative projects, like designing websites on niche topics such as catapults. This demonstrates AI's power to ignite curiosity and intrinsic motivation when paired with focused goals and the ability to build.AI's Impact on Society and Skills: We touch upon the broader societal implications, including the rise of AI girlfriends addressing male loneliness and providing acceptance. Simultaneously, there's concern over the potential atrophy of critical skills like writing and debate if individuals overly rely on AI for summarization and opinion generation without deep engagement.Contact Information*   Twitter/X: @RulebyPowerlaw*   Listeners can search for Woody Wiegmann's podcast "Courage over convention" *   LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dataovernarratives/

Did you know the way you make eye contact could determine your next promotion—or prevent a team meltdown?  In this paradigm-shifting episode of Productivity Smarts, host Gerald J. Leonard uncovers the hidden mechanics of workplace success with Dr. Dianne Olvera, a clinical psychologist and former diplomat whose espionage experience revealed surprising truths about human connection. With dual doctorates in bilingual education and cultural neuroscience, Dr. Olvera proves that real productivity isn't about doing more, it's about connecting better. From her accidental dental disaster as a TWA stewardess to surviving Argentina's political turmoil, Dr. Olvera's extraordinary journey reveals how connection fuels resilience in business and life. This isn't just another soft skills lecture. It's an operational manual for the most overlooked productivity tool you have: your ability to truly see others.  Tune in to discover how mindful communication and authentic connection can transform your team dynamics, fuel inclusivity, and unlock lasting productivity.   What We Discuss [02:01] Introduction to Dr. Dianne Olvera's extraordinary career   [05:07] A hilarious (and revealing) story about knocking out a passenger's tooth mid-flight   [08:05] How language shapes culture—lessons from Latin America's "open conversations"   [13:29] The science of eye contact: Why being "felt" boosts productivity   [17:36] Spy tactics for workplace dynamics: Using eyes to set boundaries   [19:17] How electrical energy in our eyes rebuilds broken relationships   [23:31] The dark side of jokes: How negative speech patterns poison teams   [26:21] Neurodiversity in the workplace: Creating safety for divergent thinkers   [32:15] The "Ask Don't Tell" philosophy to empower self-leadership and intrinsic motivation  [32:53] Naming behaviours in the book [38:40] Where to connect with Dr. Olvera   Notable Quotes   [05:01] “I knocked a man's tooth out with my hip as we were getting ready to land at the Indianapolis 500. This is when they still had real forks." — Dr. Dianne Olvera   [08:05] "I spent 12 years in graduate school going for my first doctorate in bilingual special education, and then my second one was in cultural differences because I wanted to know what is the impact of language on people." — Dr. Dianne Olvera   [09:59] "In Latin America, people would come up, hug me, and tell me to my face what they thought of me. At first, you want to crawl into a hole, but then you realize they really care about me." — Dr. Dianne Olvera   [13:29] "When you broaden your awareness, you actually notice when somebody looks at you, and you also notice when they don't look at you. And so you don't feel." — Dr. Dianne Olvera   [19:17] "Our eyes are of the electrical system of our body. You can literally turn negative relationships or relationships that have gone cold within a week by just learning how to use your eyes." — Dr. Dianne Olvera   [23:31] "Negative speech patterns usually start out as a joke. But then that little negative gesture permeates the whole group." — Dr. Dianne Olvera   [33:44] “So it's the words you don't use that are the words that get you into trouble.”— Dr. Dianne Olvera   Our Guest Dr. Dianne Olvera is a lively and compassionate educator, former diplomat, and intelligence officer whose groundbreaking work has transformed classrooms and workplaces around the world. Holding doctorates in bilingual special education and cultural neuroscience, she brings a rare blend of academic insight and real-world experience. Her research into how language and nonverbal cues shape the brain has helped teams and individuals communicate more effectively, resolve conflict, and foster genuine connection. In her acclaimed book, The Power of Connection, Dr. Olvera reveals how subtle shifts in speech patterns and body language can unlock empowerment, collaboration, and lasting change.   Resources Dianne Olvera Website - https://www.drdianneolvera.com/ Book - The Power of Connection   Productivity Smarts Podcast Website - productivitysmartspodcast.com   Gerald J. Leonard Website - geraldjleonard.com Turnberry Premiere website - turnberrypremiere.com Scheduler - vcita.com/v/geraldjleonard   Mentioned Book Conversational Intelligence  Kiva is a loan, not a donation, allowing you to cycle your money and create a personal impact worldwide. https://www.kiva.org/lender/topmindshelpingtopminds

After every five guest interviews, I reflect on each of the individual episodes and focus in on specific topics pulling on different threads and diving deeper to explore elements that piqued my interest. In this episode, exploring transformative leadership, storytelling, coaching, mentoring, identity crises, choices, responsibility, change, divergent thinking and elite sport, I share my Reflections with Actions from these five recent podcast episodes: 436 Drive Change for Good with Steve Howe 437 Wisdom of the Wolves with Claire Payne 438 Finding Alignment with Emma Menzies 439 Own Your Narrative with Natsuko Suwaki 440 Path to Gold with Aaron Phipps and Jon Cooper   KEY TAKEAWAY ‘If you don't ask, you don't get. If you do ask, opportunities will present themselves in abundance.'   BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS* Focus on Why by Amy Rowlinson with George F. Kerr – https://amzn.eu/d/6W02HWu   Mentoring - A Complete Guide to Effective Mentoring by Andy Lopata and Dr Ruth Gotian - https://amzn.eu/d/bKhXOiT   EPISODES REFERENCED 180 Eliminating Stress with Ruth Fogg - https://focusonwhy.libsyn.com/180-eliminating-stress-with-ruth-fogg 283 Professional Relationships with Andy Lopata - https://focusonwhy.libsyn.com/283-professional-relationships-with-andy-lopata 204 Money Mastery with Lesley Thomas -  https://focusonwhy.libsyn.com/204-money-mastery-with-lesley-thomas 129 Unconscious Competence with Jackie Handy -  https://focusonwhy.libsyn.com/129-unconscious-competence-with-jackie-handy  and 362 Exploring Life's Path with Jackie Handy -  https://focusonwhy.libsyn.com/362-exploring-lifes-path-with-jackie-handy 427 The Web of Life with Manda Scott - https://focusonwhy.libsyn.com/427-the-web-of-life-with-manda-scott     ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON Amy is a purpose and fulfilment coach, author, podcast strategist, podcaster and mastermind host helping you to improve productivity, engagement and fulfilment in your everyday life and work. Prepare to banish overwhelm, underwhelm and frustration to live with clarity of purpose.   WORK WITH AMY If you're interested in how purpose can help you and your business, please book a free 30 min call via https://calendly.com/amyrowlinson/call   KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AMY Sign up for the weekly Friday Focus - https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter   CONNECT WITH AMY https://linktr.ee/AmyRowlinson   HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson   DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence. *As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Paralympian gold medallist Aaron Phipps and his coach Jon Cooper share their incredible journey from the heights of elite sport to empowering others through their collaborative motivational keynote. As a dynamic duo, Aaron and Jon dive into the highs and lows of competition, the transformative power of partnership and how creative training and mental resilience propelled Aaron's performance beyond all expectations. With lessons on innovation, adaptability and the joy of preparation, Aaron and Jon reveal how adopting a divergent mindset helped create their unique path to gold.   KEY TAKEAWAY ‘There's a difference between putting the person at the centre of the journey and relying on the person to navigate the journey.'   ABOUT AARON Aaron Phipps MBE competes on the world stage as a three time Paralympian. He pulled himself from an impossible situation as a teenager to become the best in the world in what he does. He is a keen charity fundraiser and in 2016, set himself the biggest challenge yet to scale Mount Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair. He has been ranked in the top 100 most influential people in the UK with a disability and his story moves audiences across the globe. Aaron describes Jon as his biggest cheerleader and harshest critic yet the best coach he's ever worked with.    ABOUT JON Jon has been a performance coach in elite level sports for over 12 years, training a range of athletes from professional football, Olympic sailing and international athletics. He is also a PhD candidate, published researcher and university lecturer in sport science and coaching. Jon describes Aaron as an inspiration, a truly great athlete and the most driven person he's ever met which is both a blessing and a curse being his coach!   CONNECT WITH AARON AND JON https://www.aaronphipps.com/ https://www.instagram.com/aaronphippsgbwr https://www.facebook.com/AaronPhippsGbwr https://x.com/AaronPhippsGBWR https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6A9D2W7VOB_ERz6sFBN-fg/videos https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-phipps-mbe-ply-062b3747/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-cooper-91480849/   ABOUT AMY Amy is a life purpose coach, author, podcast strategist, global podcaster, professional speaker, trainer and mastermind host. Helping you to improve productivity, engagement and fulfilment in your everyday life and work. Prepare to banish overwhelm, underwhelm and frustration to have clarity of purpose and create a more purposeful, sustainable and fulfilling way of life.   WORK WITH AMY If you're interested in how purpose can help you personally and professionally, please book a free 30 min call via https://calendly.com/amyrowlinson/call   BOOK RECOMMENDATION* Focus on Why by Amy Rowlinson with George F. Kerr – https://amzn.eu/d/6W02HWu   KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AMY Sign up for the weekly Friday Focus - https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter   CONNECT WITH AMY https://linktr.ee/AmyRowlinson   HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson   DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence. *As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

If you want to make better decisions or if you want to have a set of diverse perspectives around you to guide thinking, then this discussion is vital. How do we frame and then re-frame our points of view to get better results? What keeps us from re-framing? Why is this a unique human skill when so much of what human's do can be done, eventually, by machines? Listen in for insight and tools.

In this episode, I explore the often counterintuitive concept of creative constraints and how they can significantly boost creativity and innovation for creative entrepreneurs and early-stage founders. By setting boundaries, we can narrow our focus, refine our ideas, and enhance our problem-solving abilities. I discuss various types of constraints and offer practical tips for implementing them effectively. Chapters: Introduction to Creative Constraints (00:00:52) Personal Example of Constraints (00:02:04) Video as a Constraint (00:03:05) Overview of Episode Structure (00:04:05) Why Constraints Boost Creativity (00:04:53) Examples of Constraints Driving Innovation (00:08:12) Types of Creative Constraints (00:10:36) Implementing Constraints in Various Contexts (00:14:19) Overcoming Resistance to Constraints (00:16:53) Practical Tips for Applying Constraints (00:19:40) Convergent vs. Divergent Thinking (00:21:10) Recap and Challenge (00:23:01) Stay Connected: Subscribe to the newsletter and access extended resources on ⁠https://everydayinnovation.io⁠ Instagram accounts: instagram.com/jordandivecha⁠ , ⁠instagram.com/everydayinnovation_⁠ YouTube: ⁠youtube.com/@jordandivecha Jordan's LinkedIn: ⁠linkedin.com/in/jordandivecha⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/everydayinnovation/support

Most people with ADHD traits are original thinkers and creative problem solvers, but don't always know how to make the most of these abilities. My own search lead me to the work of psychologist JP Guilford who studied creativity in the 950s, and is based on the notion that all creativity is evidence of divergent thinking. Spoiler alert: if you are neurodivergent, you are creative, even if you don't think of yourself that way. In this episode, using Guilford's model, I will break down the four different types of creativity (aka divergent thinking) and share simple, effective strategies for how to enhance yours, from brainstorming and mind mapping to perspective shifting and role-playing. Troubled by your tendency to go off on tangents? Have trouble making decisions because you can see the benefits of every option? Feel self conscious about your impulsivity and intuition? It's all evidence of your divergent, creative thinking! Don't forget to share this episode with a fellow creative and choose one new strategy to implement this week. Guilford's Model of Divergent Thinking (aka Creativity) Fluency: generating a large number of ideas or solutions Flexibility: generating ideas that are different from each other.Originality: generating ideas that are novel or unique.Elaboration: developing, refining, and elaborating on ideas.We'll not only cover tools and techniques to amplify your creativity in each of these four areas, but how to protect your creativity through strategic rest, structured downtime and how to avoid toxic productivity and revenge bedtime procrastination. Also mentioned in this episode:Interview with Jude Star on mindfulness and meditation Q-less Crossword Solitare Dice GameJulia Cameron Morning Pages Voxer walkie talkie app Time is running out to grab one of my Summer Strategy Sessions. These fast and focused engagements are designed for maximum impact in minimum time. Click on the hyperlink to schedule your no obligation consultation NOW!

Most people with ADHD traits are original thinkers and creative problem solvers, but don't always know how to make the most of these abilities. My own search lead me to the work of psychologist JP Guilford who studied creativity in the 950s, and is based on the notion that all creativity is evidence of divergent thinking. Spoiler alert: if you are neurodivergent, you are creative, even if you don't think of yourself that way. In this episode, using Guilford's model, I will break down the four different types of creativity (aka divergent thinking) and share simple, effective strategies for how to enhance yours, from brainstorming and mind mapping to perspective shifting and role-playing. Troubled by your tendency to go off on tangents? Have trouble making decisions because you can see the benefits of every option? Feel self conscious about your impulsivity and intuition? It's all evidence of your divergent, creative thinking! Don't forget to share this episode with a fellow creative and choose one new strategy to implement this week. Guilford's Model of Divergent Thinking (aka Creativity) Fluency: generating a large number of ideas or solutions Flexibility: generating ideas that are different from each other.Originality: generating ideas that are novel or unique.Elaboration: developing, refining, and elaborating on ideas.We'll not only cover tools and techniques to amplify your creativity in each of these four areas, but how to protect your creativity through strategic rest, structured downtime and how to avoid toxic productivity and revenge bedtime procrastination. Also mentioned in this episode:Interview with Jude Star on mindfulness and meditation Q-less Crossword Solitare Dice GameJulia Cameron Morning Pages Voxer walkie talkie app Time is running out to grab one of my Summer Strategy Sessions. These fast and focused engagements are designed for maximum impact in minimum time. Click on the hyperlink to schedule your no obligation consultation NOW!

What happens when you mix Lego, business strategies, and playful creativity? Join us as we uncover the secrets with Tim Kroll, a seasoned business strategist and team-building expert who gained fame from season two of Lego Masters. Tim recounts his unique journey to the show, highlighting the special bond and collaborative spirit he shared with his son. Discover how Tim masterfully incorporates Lego into his workshops to break down barriers and nurture creativity, and learn how he teaches vital business concepts through engaging hands-on activities.Ever felt like you don't fit into the cookie-cutter mold of traditional education? You're not alone! This episode dives deep into the value of individuality and the often restrictive nature of conventional schooling. Tim and I discuss how embracing unique problem-solving skills and adaptability can lead to more effective and innovative outcomes. Using metaphors like basketball plays and coat hangers, we illustrate how foundational principles can support dynamic, personalized strategies in life and work, encouraging you to balance structure with flexibility.Transitioning from a secure corporate job to a creatively fulfilling career can be daunting, but Tim shares his journey that beautifully captures this emotional rollercoaster. We talk about the illusions of job security, especially highlighted during the pandemic, and the importance of following one's passion. Adding a playful twist, we engage in a fun game of "Survey Says" and share intriguing Lego trivia, all while emphasizing the balance between intentionality and fun. Tune in for a compelling conversation that champions the significance of serious play in achieving a purpose-driven and enjoyable life.Support the Show.Support the Playful Humans mission to help adults rediscover the power of play: Subscribe to the YouTube channel Subscribe to the Podcast Book a playshop for your team Support our sponsors

Welcome to episode 050 of Life Sciences 360.In this episode, Harsh Thakkar chats with Tony Martignetti, a top leadership development voice on LinkedIn and an advisor to numerous tech and life sciences executives. Tony shares his insights on inspired leadership, the importance of investing in people, and how to unlock potential within teams. They also discuss the concept of flashpoints in both personal and organizational contexts and the value of embracing divergent thinking in the workplace.Chapters:00:00 Introduction to Tony Martignetti and Leadership Development01:04 Advocating for Inspired Leadership02:23 Influences: Henry Tamir and “No Rules, Rules” Book04:37 Investing in People: Beyond Pedigree06:19 Authentic Leadership: Bringing Your Whole Self to Work09:40 The Core Model: Encouraging Authenticity in Teams11:33 Identifying and Aligning Personal and Organizational Flashpoints13:04 Overcoming Barriers: Personal Stories and Career Challenges16:13 Flashpoints in Organizations: Examples and Insights19:34 Embracing Divergent Thinking for Innovation25:30 Convergent Hearts: Building Connection and Understanding30:46 Practical Tips for Leaders to Foster Innovation and Growth35:21 Specialist vs. Generalist: Expanding Skills and Knowledge39:36 Key Takeaways: Expanding Vision and Narrowing Focus-----Links:*Tony Martignetti LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonymartignetti1/)*Tony Martignetti Website (https://ipurposepartners.com/)*Harsh Thakkar LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshvthakkar/)*Listen to this episode on the go!

Today marks the beginning of a series of episodes introducing you to five creative thinking skills. Future episodes will explore each skill's background, steps, application, and examples. In this episode, we'll explore how mastering divergent thinking skills can transform your life, turning obstacles into opportunities and making the impossible seem possible. Remember to subscribe so […]

Jeff Wetzler, co-CEO of Transcend, brings over 25 years of expertise in learning and human potential. With a background spanning business and education, he's served as a management consultant to leading corporations, facilitated learning for global leaders, and held the role of Chief Learning Officer at Teach For America. Jeff holds a doctorate in adult learning and leadership from Columbia University and a bachelor's in psychology from Brown University.He is also the author of Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You For Unexpected Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life. ___Get your copy of Personal Socrates: Better Questions, Better Life Connect with Marc >>> Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter Drop a review and let me know what resonates with you about the show!Thanks as always for listening and have the best day yet!*Behind the Human is proudly recorded in a Canadian made Loop Phone Booth*Special props

What are you dreams trying to tell you about yourself? Neurosurgeon Rahul Jandial feels dreaming is a vital part of being human. In this chat with Fearne, Rahul explains that while our waking brain is generally ruled by the logical executive network... the dreaming brain liberates creative and divergent thinking. We dream, he says, to keep our minds open so they're able to adapt if our world suddenly changes. They also talk about the role dreams play as our ‘nocturnal therapists'. Dreams allow us a safe space to rehearse real life scenarios we might be anxious or confused about. Sometimes our dreams can reflect what's happening in our waking life, but what if what you're experiencing in your dream life is flagging something that you haven't even recognised about yourself yet? Rahul talks about how to use your dreams as a psychological thermometer. Rahul's book, This Is Why You Dream, is out now. Listen back to Professor David Nutt's episode about psychedelics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a world of perpetual change, navigating digital transformation parallels the phases of societal evolution. From galvanizing momentum to the sobering reality of implementation, each stage demands strategic adaptation. Yet, sustaining innovation requires more than initial enthusiasm; it necessitates a shift in mindset towards everyday creativity. Daphnée Nostrome, Director, Channel Strategy at the Canadian Digital Service discusses the Digital Stress Scale, and how leaders must foster divergent thinking, recognising that innovation thrives in collaboration, not isolation in this week's episode. Daphnée Nostrome, Director, Channel Strategy, Canadian Digital Service For more great insights head to www.PublicSectorNetwork.co  

Our Guest: Aaron interviews our guest, Dr. Tamara Rosier. Dr. Tamara is an ADHD coach, and the founder of the ADHD Center in West Michigan. She shares her knowledge and history of ADHD going back to the 1800's. Ways to cope with the thing that gives you reoccurring anxiety, including emotionally engineering your day. The fact that ADHD people are more susceptible to addiction, because dopamine makes them feel more “normal.” Other topics include ADHD in marriage, supporting kids with ADHD, Convergent and Divergent Thinking, and flight, flight, freeze, and appease. Links:  d Dr. Tamara Rosier Books: Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD Events: 2024 Samson Summit Sponsor: Life Works Counseling   If you have thoughts or questions that you'd like the guys to address in upcoming episodes or suggestions for future guests, please drop a note to piratemonkpodcast@gmail.com.   The music on this podcast is contributed by members of the Samson Society and www.fiftysounds.com. For more information on this ministry, please visit samsonsociety.com.  Support for the women who have been impacted by our choices is available at sarahsociety.com. The Pirate Monk Podcast is provided by Samson Society, a ministry of Samson House, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. To help support the vision, please consider a contribution to Samson House.

The last few years have seen a spike in people being diagnosed with a neurodivergent condition, such as ADHD, autism, anxiety or OCD. It's something Francesca has had personal experience with, so to help other parents and adult women going on their own journeys, she and Louise talk all things neurodiversity with Anton Ashcroft, registered psychologist and co-founder of Divergent Thinking. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How do convergent and divergent styles of thinking relate to creativity? We explore how Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons can stimulate flexible, creative problem-solving. Visit https://AchievingExcellence.com and https://DonnaRay.com to learn more about Donna and Al and to explore our class and product offerings. Visit the show website: https://FeldenkraisforLife.com.

Thomas Lahnthaler, an expert in crisis management, shares his experiences and insights in this episode. He discusses his background in humanitarian crisis work and the challenges faced by crisis workers. Thomas emphasizes the importance of addressing trauma and mental health in the field. He also talks about his book 'Navigating Beyond Crisis' and how crisis management principles can be applied in various contexts, including the boardroom. Thomas highlights the value of divergent thinking and the need to work with emotions in crisis situations. Overall, this conversation provides valuable insights into crisis management and its broader applications. Takeaways Crisis management is not limited to major disasters but also applies to everyday challenges in our personal and professional lives. Addressing trauma and mental health is crucial for crisis workers and should be a priority in the field. Crisis management principles can be applied in various contexts, including the boardroom, to navigate change and uncertainty. Divergent thinking and working with emotions are essential skills in crisis management and can lead to innovative solutions. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction to Thomas Lahnthaler and Crisis Management 02:20 - Thomas Lahnthaler's Background and Career in Crisis Management 06:18 - Experiences in Humanitarian Crisis Work 09:18 - Dealing with Trauma and PTSD as a Humanitarian Crisis Worker 15:11 - Writing the Book 'Navigating Beyond Crisis' 18:45 - Applying Crisis Management Principles in the Boardroom 23:48 - The Importance of Divergent Thinking in Crisis Management 28:37 - The Role of Emotions and Ideation in Crisis Management How to reach Thomas for follow up: Website: https://www.lahnthaler.com/ Book: https://www.lahnthaler.com/book LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaslahnthaler/

What if you could identify creative potential in your classroom? In part two of this double expresso of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Todd Lubart discusses the evolving landscape of creative potential and education. With insights drawn from his extensive research in creativity, Dr. Lubart delves into the changing nature of divergent thinking in the digital age. He examines the impact of generative AI on idea generation and the challenges it presents in selecting and developing the most promising ideas. Additionally, Dr. Lubart explores the future of creativity in education, shedding light on how integrating generative AI and virtual reality can provide tailored, immersive experiences that stimulate creativity. Listeners gain access to valuable tips for educators, such as investing in creative challenges, enhancing the measurement of creative potential, and focusing on individual learner profiles. As Dr. Lubart emphasizes the importance of personalized approaches, he underscores the significance of educators designing activities that cater to the unique creative needs of their students. Whether you're a teacher looking to enrich the learning experience or an emerging scholar seeking to explore the intersection of creativity and education, this episode provides a compelling understanding of the changing dynamics of creativity in the classroom and beyond. Learn more about the EPoC here. About Dr. Todd Lubart: Todd Lubart is a professor of psychology at University Paris Cité. Former director of an applied psychology research laboratory, coordinator of several grants and contracts, he has more than 200 publications in articles, books and psychological tests. His lines of research concern creative potential, creativity assessments, creativity development, environmental support for creativity, the impact of technology on creativity. Todd Lubart serves on the editorial board of several journals concerning creativity and innovation, received the Berlyne award from the American Psychological Association, the NAGC Torrance Award, and was a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Todd Lubart is president of the non-profit ISSCI (the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation, issci.online). Eager to bring more creativity into your school district? Check out our sponsor Curiosity2Create.org and CreativeThinkingNetwork.com What to learn more about Design Thinking in Education?  Do you want to build a sustained culture of innovation and creativity at your school? Visit WorwoodClassroom.com to understand how Design Thinking can promote teacher creativity and support professional growth in the classroom.  Subscribe to our monthly newsletter!  

#A thought process used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions

#88. In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY., Daniel discusses how giving projects or problems space and time can help overcome being stuck. Strategies on how to practically do this will be reviewed.   Link to podcast by Huberman Lab (the science of creativity and how to enhance creative innovation): https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-of-creativity-and-how-to-enhance-creative-innovation/Non-sleep deep rest (one of the meditation techniques described): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGrmY8OSHMSupport the showI use buzzsprout.com for podcast hosting and love it! If you want to sign up, please use this link and you will get a $20 Amazon Gift Card (sent after 2nd paid invoice). Podcast Homepage: https://createphotography.buzzsprout.com

In this episode of the Ready, Set, Growth podcast, Nick invites guest Cathleen Beachboard, a teacher, author, and researcher, to discuss the importance of promoting divergent thinking in the classroom. They explore the benefits of encouraging students to generate multiple solutions to problems, which fosters creativity and innovation. Kathleen shares her expertise in psychological tools that schools can use to help students and staff increase psychological hope, resilience, achievement, and happiness. This episode aims to inspire and provide valuable insights for teachers looking to improve their teaching practices and support their students' growth. Follow us on social media: www.readysetgrowthpodcast.com https://bit.ly/3jN3eEz - Instagram https://bit.ly/3lC5ccp - Twitter  https://bit.ly/2YWVW91 - Facebook  Follow our guest:  https://twitter.com/CathleenBeachbd - Twitter/X [00:02:09] Creativity in education. [00:06:58] Divergent thinking techniques. [00:09:25] Reverse brainstorming and embracing failure. [00:12:08] Successful teaching strategies. [00:16:00] Mind mapping and creativity. [00:20:57] Enhancing education through creative thinking. [00:24:31] Shifting dynamics in the classroom. [00:27:11] Share with another teacher.

Dr. Robert Lengel's life and career have spanned the fields of engineering design, financial services, industrial sales, environmental research, consulting and academics. And frankly he's concerned about the future of humanity. So much so that he has put forth a treatise on a necessary way forward that involves embracing both the outspoken aspects of intellect, information, rationality and the practical, as well as the quieter voice of emotion, relationships, and the impractical.Working on Purpose is broadcast live Tuesdays at 6PM ET.Working on Purpose TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).Working on Purpose Radio Show is broadcast on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). Working on Purpose Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets. 

Today we chat with Dr. Tamara Rosier, author of Your Brain's Not Broken. Dr. Rosier discusses the difference between convergent and divergent thinking and why understanding this difference can have a huge impact for those of us with ADHD!Many with ADHD prefer divergent thinking since this allows for creativity, expansion, and connection. While necessary for everyday life, tasks that fall under the convergent thinking category are often found to be boring or frustrating to those with a preference for divergent thought. We need both "thought modes" to thrive in our modern world and Dr. Rosier's interview will offer us some tools to help us do that!Dr. Tamara Rosier's website

Do you need to identify potential causes of an undesirable effect or problem?  Then you're in luck because in this episode of PMI's Uncommon Sense podcast, PMI Senior Consultant Damion Albinson talks about the Cause and Effect Diagram.To really get to the bottom of a problem it's crucial to avoid jumping straight to solution mode, Damion warns us.  Instead, focus on divergent thinking to generate a broad range of potential causes, before using PDSA to validate the most likely.  Listen now for some great tips on how to get the most from this powerful tool.Here are some helpful resources to get you started:Toolbox: Cause & Effect Diagrams - a quick and easy step-by-step guide that helps you use this toolVideo Series:  Essential Green Belt Tools - Cause & Effect DiagramOn Demand Webinar:  Every Day Tools for Daily Process ImprovementMore from PMI: Learn, share, and thrive at PMI's Goals to Results Conference on 25th September 2024.Register your interest for more information and to access early bird bookings. Dive into our Knowledge Hub for more tools, videos, and infographics Join us for a PMI LIVE Webinar Follow us on LinkedIn Take your improvement career to the next level with PMI's Lean Six Sigma Certifications - now available in two new and accessible formats, built around you. Explore On Demand >> Explore Distance Learning >>

In this episode, we talk about how to teach your child the creative process. Why is this important? Well, it develops critical thinking skills and helps them become better problem solvers. Problems can be social in nature, academic, relational, but the key is that you want them to be able to be flexible in their thinking so that they can formulate their own ideas and be leaders, rather than always following the crowd. There are just so many benefits to teaching your child the creative process and our special guest, Drew Vernon, child development advocate from Tonies®,  is going to help you understand your role as a parent.  About This Episode's Special Guest:Drew is a Marketing Director at Tonies® Learn more at www.tonies.comFree giveaway!!! Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify for a chance to win your very own Tonie®. Reviews must be posted by April 18, 2023 at 9pm PST in order to be entered into the drawing. If you are the winner, we will reach out to you and request your address for a Toniebox to be sent to your home. Resources Mentioned In this Episode:To schedule your 15-minute FREE Consultation, visit jessikashields.com*EMAIL LIST*Click here to join my email list for more free content to help you on your parenting journey!or go to strongermindsstrongeryouth.com/jointhelist*REACH OUT & SHARE*Email me your stories to share with others parents just like you @ jessika@strongermindsstrongeryouth.com *CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!* & *TAG ME IN YOUR STORIES!!!*#jessikashields or @strongermindsstrongeryouthGet Social to Stay Connected!!!Twitter: @Official_SMSYFB: @StrongerMindsStrongerYouthInstagram: @StrongerMindsStrongerYouthLinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessikashieldsTikTok: @Official_SMSYTo access more Podcast resources, visit strongermindsstrongeryouth.comThank you for listening!

If we gave you a bunch of positive whole numbers and asked what you get when you add them all up, you'd have a pretty easy time of it...  you are The Math Club, after all.  But what if we gave you an infinite series of positive whole numbers and asked you what you get when you add them all up?  In this episode, Pete and Noah talk about how mathematicians go about assigning a value in this seemingly impossible situation.  Join us and learn about divergent series, and be ready to be surprised by some of the results. • The Numberphile video • Leave us a voice message • Email us • Follow us on Twitter

When people brag about their 80-hour work weeks, I have to wonder, are they really working for 80 hours? Or are they starting, browsing social media, and then stopping and starting eight times in a row like me? While I often “work” for 10 or even 12 hours in a day, only a novelist would label what I'm actually doing as focused work. Many of us struggle with attention so profoundly that our only solution is to buffer the day with massive blocks of non-productive cloud-gazing time, so that 2-3 hours of focus will collectively add up by default by the time the day is over. Sound familiar? My guest on this week's podcast studies attention and productivity.   Listen and learn:  How a 20-minute walk encourages divergent thinking and can refresh your attention span How multitasking can increase your blood pressure and stress response How to practice discernment and mindfulness with social media The value of superimposing meta-awareness to tasks for greater attention Links Gloria's site ABOUT OUR GUEST Gloria Mark is a professor at UC Irvine. She has spent over two decades studying multitasking, interruptions, productivity and mood with the rise in digital technology. Her work has been published extensively and her new book is called Attention Span. Like the Show? Leave us a review Check out our YouTube channel Visit www.yogabody.com

Huberman Lab Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Creativity stems from neural structures in the brain that can be accessed in a certain sequence to spark creativity in different domains of lifeTruly creative acts are novel combinations of some things that reveal a fundamental feature about how our brain or the real world workCreativity captivates us because it's useful in some way – just coming up with a novel combination of things (like wings on a fish tank) is not inherently creativeIf you want to be creative, you need to seek out and forage for information about existing rules – you can't break rules unless you know themKey elements of creativity: (1) divergent thinking – brainstorming, exploring ideas – taking one stimulus and radiating out thoughts, events, and concepts from that thing; (2) convergent thinking – taking loose ideas and synthesizing them into a specific framework or coherent idea(s) To enhance divergent thinking try 5 minutes of open monitoring meditation: sit with eyes closed and just let thoughts flow in and outTo enhance convergent thinking try 5 minutes of focused attention monitoring: sit with eyes closed or open and focus on a specific object, sound, pointSkip the caffeine to enhance divergent thinking, consume caffeine to enhance convergent thinkingRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgIn this episode, I explain how the brain engages in creative thinking and, based on that mechanistic understanding, the tools to improve one's ability to think creatively and innovate in any area. I discuss how convergent and divergent thinking are essential for generating creative ideas and provide three types of meditation tools (open monitoring meditation, focused attention meditation & non-sleep deep rest; NSDR), which improve our ability to engage in these creative thinking patterns in specific and powerful ways. I also discuss how dopamine and mood contribute to the creative process and describe behavioral, nutritional and supplementation-based approaches for increasing dopamine to engage in creative thought and implementation. I explain how movement and storytelling (narrative) approaches can generate novel creative ideas and how substances like alcohol, cannabis, and psilocybin impact our creative ability. Excitingly, creativity is a skill that can be cultivated and enhanced; this episode outlines many tools to help anyone access creativity and apply creative patterns of thought to different domains of life. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman ROKA: https://www.roka.com/huberman Thesis: https://takethesis.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://www.insidetracker.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com Timestamps (00:00:00) Creativity (00:04:30) ROKA, Thesis, LMNT, Momentous (00:08:51) What is Creativity? (00:11:16) Creativity in Visual Arts, Escher & Banksy (00:23:37) Neural Circuits of Creativity (00:31:58) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:33:13) Creative Ideas & Divergent Thinking (00:42:09) Testing Creative Ideas & Convergent Thinking (00:46:41) Dopamine, Convergent & Divergent Thinking Pathways (00:57:02) InsideTracker (00:58:06) Tool: Open Monitoring Meditation & Divergent Thinking (01:07:38) Tool: Focused Attention Meditation & Convergent Thinking (01:11:06) Mood, Creativity & Dopamine (01:16:00) Tool: Mood Calibrating, Caffeine & Dopamine (01:23:41) Dopamine Supplementation; L-Tyrosine, Caffeine (01:30:15) Tool: Non-Sleep Deep Rest, Mesocortical Dopamine & Divergent Thinking (01:43:130 Serotonin, Psylocibin & Creative Thinking (01:49:13) Alcohol & Autobiographical Scripting; Cannabis (01:52:04) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) & Creativity (01:54:45) Tool: Movement & Divergent Thinking (02:01:02) Tool: Narratives & Storytelling for Creativity (02:14:47) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Neural Network Newsletter, Social Media Disclaimer Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac

In this episode, I explain how the brain engages in creative thinking and, based on that mechanistic understanding, the tools to improve one's ability to think creatively and innovate in any area. I discuss how convergent and divergent thinking are essential for generating creative ideas and provide three types of meditation tools (open monitoring meditation, focused attention meditation & non-sleep deep rest; NSDR), which improve our ability to engage in these creative thinking patterns in specific and powerful ways. I also discuss how dopamine and mood contribute to the creative process and describe behavioral, nutritional and supplementation-based approaches for increasing dopamine to engage in creative thought and implementation. I explain how movement and storytelling (narrative) approaches can generate novel creative ideas and how substances like alcohol, cannabis, and psilocybin impact our creative ability. Excitingly, creativity is a skill that can be cultivated and enhanced; this episode outlines many tools to help anyone access creativity and apply creative patterns of thought to different domains of life. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman ROKA: https://www.roka.com/huberman Thesis: https://takethesis.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://www.insidetracker.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com Timestamps (00:00:00) Creativity (00:04:30) ROKA, Thesis, LMNT, Momentous (00:08:51) What is Creativity? (00:11:16) Creativity in Visual Arts, Escher & Banksy (00:23:37) Neural Circuits of Creativity (00:31:58) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:33:13) Creative Ideas & Divergent Thinking (00:42:09) Testing Creative Ideas & Convergent Thinking (00:46:41) Dopamine, Convergent & Divergent Thinking Pathways (00:57:02) InsideTracker (00:58:06) Tool: Open Monitoring Meditation & Divergent Thinking (01:07:38) Tool: Focused Attention Meditation & Convergent Thinking (01:11:06) Mood, Creativity & Dopamine (01:16:00) Tool: Mood Calibrating, Caffeine & Dopamine (01:23:41) Dopamine Supplementation; L-Tyrosine, Caffeine (01:30:15) Tool: Non-Sleep Deep Rest, Mesocortical Dopamine & Divergent Thinking (01:43:130 Serotonin, Psylocibin & Creative Thinking (01:49:13) Alcohol & Autobiographical Scripting; Cannabis (01:52:04) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) & Creativity (01:54:45) Tool: Movement & Divergent Thinking (02:01:02) Tool: Narratives & Storytelling for Creativity (02:14:47) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Neural Network Newsletter, Social Media Disclaimer Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac

Meet Jenn Graham. Jenn is the Founder and CEO of Inclusivv,  a platform helping companies, communities, and individuals make deeper connections and ignite change through guided conversations. Throughout her life and career Jenn  has been drawn to a diverse set of interests. Often this meant that she connected with others but never quite fully belonged in any one group. It would be over a decade before Jenn saw how her divergent interests and skills were meant to come together.On this episode we explore topics including: How intuition plays an important part in creating alignmentEmbracing diverse interests rather than feeling the need to hyper focusAsking for what you want and need,Making the decision to become an entrepreneur and tech founder.Important Links:Connect with Jenn on LinkedInLearn more about My Human Design

Huberman Lab Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Nicotinic receptors and cannabinoid receptors are not in the brain for smoking tobacco or marijuana; they are endogenous receptors that support specific functions (such as acetylcholine) when appropriateCannabis dependence: when smoked or ingested, THC and CBD bind to cannabinoid receptors and tap into endogenous receptors with much more potency – your endogenous receptors are outcompeted  Sativa strains increase mood, alertness, and focus of the prefrontal cortex while decreasing stress and threat detection in the amygdala – this combination allows people to enter narrowed focus  Indica strains reduce the activity of the prefrontal cortex and induce relaxation and sedative effects but also lead to profound defects in short-term memory because it reduces the activity of the hippocampusThere are no predictors of what your reaction will be to a given strain (e.g., whether you experience relaxation or paranoia)“Cannabis increases creativity but through changes in personality that tap into the creative process, rather than directly impacting the neural circuits that, for instance, ‘turn on' creativity.” – Dr. Andrew HubermanSmoking cannabis increases prolactin levels (especially in those who smoke more than twice per week); dopamine and prolactin are mutually inhibitory – this is important in sexual arousal which will be suppressed if prolactin is elevated with cannabis useFertility: THC (not CBD) is inhibitory for gonadotropin-releasing hormone which ultimately reduces testosterone in men, ovarian health in women“Cannabis use itself makes people 4x likelier to develop a chronic, major depression.” – Dr. Andrew HubermanChronic cannabis is not safe for the developing brain and body because of thinning of gray matter that occurs – risks include depression, anxiety, psychotic events, inability to balance moodThe more potent the THC concentration, the higher the likelihood of developing a major anxiety disorder or psychotic episode later in lifeRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgIn this episode, I discuss cannabis (aka marijuana), including the biological mechanisms underlying its effects on the mind and body, its known medical applications, its impact on libido, creativity, hunger, hormones and more. I also cover the known adverse health consequences of chronic and even acute (one-time) use and the factors that determine if cannabis is helpful or harmful. Additionally, I detail how the various strains of cannabis: sativa, indica and hybrid strains, can produce such divergent effects depending on the strain type, THC-to-CBD ratio, total dosage, and frequency of use. I review why cannabis can impact speech patterns and one's propensity to develop anxiety/depression during and after use and, in some individuals, paranoia. As the legal landscape for cannabis is rapidly evolving, this episode should interest a wide audience, including former/current cannabis users, those in the medical, sports, law enforcement, and educational communities and, of course, children, teenagers, and parents. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman Levels: https://levels.link/huberman Thesis: https://takethesis.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Huberman Lab Premium https://hubermanlab.com/premium For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com Timestamps (00:00:00) Cannabis (Marijuana) (00:04:46) New: Huberman Lab Premium (00:07:03) Tool: Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR), Sleep & Anxiety (00:10:08) Levels, Thesis, InsideTracker (00:14:01) Momentous Supplements (00:15:08) Cannabis Strains, Psychoactive Compounds: THC & CBD (00:19:34) Sativa vs. Indica, Stimulant vs. Relaxation Effects (00:25:55) Hybrid Cannabis Strains, Type 1, 2 & 3 Strains (00:30:41) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:31:56) Naturally Occurring Receptors: Nicotinic & Cannabinoid Receptors (CB1) (00:40:35) THC, CBD vs. Endogenous Cannabinoids, Dependence (00:43:14) Endogenous Cannabinoids, Cannabinoid Receptors & Nervous System Function (00:53:07) Biological Effects of Cannabis (00:56:29) Cannabis Sativa & Subjective Effects: Mood, Stress, Alertness, Paranoia (01:04:58) Cannabis Indica & Subjective Effects, Memory, Dosage (01:09:41) Brain Areas Affected by THC & CBD, Side Effects (01:16:08) Creativity: Convergent vs. Divergent Thinking & Dopamine (01:26:41) Does Cannabis Increase Creativity? (01:35:08) Chronic Cannabis Use & Changes in Speech Patterns (01:46:46) Cannabis & Libido, Dopamine & Prolactin (01:56:55) Cannabis & Hormones: Prolactin, Testosterone, Estrogen & Fertility (02:06:53) Smoking/Vaping Tobacco or Cannabis & Negative Health Consequences (02:10:06) Avoiding Cannabis During Pregnancy/Breastfeeding, Fetal Neural Development (02:18:13) Negative Health Consequences of Cannabis, Anxiety & Depression, Tolerance (02:25:57) Cannabis Use & Adolescence/Young Adulthood, Predisposition to Psychosis (02:34:36) Adolescent Cannabis Use: Brain Development & Mental Health Disorders (02:41:44) Cannabis & Pain Management, Divergent Effects of Cannabis (02:44:54) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Huberman Lab Premium, Momentous Supplements, Neural Network Newsletter, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn  Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

In this episode, I discuss cannabis (aka marijuana), including the biological mechanisms underlying its effects on the mind and body, its known medical applications, its impact on libido, creativity, hunger, hormones and more. I also cover the known adverse health consequences of chronic and even acute (one-time) use and the factors that determine if cannabis is helpful or harmful. Additionally, I detail how the various strains of cannabis: sativa, indica and hybrid strains, can produce such divergent effects depending on the strain type, THC-to-CBD ratio, total dosage, and frequency of use. I review why cannabis can impact speech patterns and one's propensity to develop anxiety/depression during and after use and, in some individuals, paranoia. As the legal landscape for cannabis is rapidly evolving, this episode should interest a wide audience, including former/current cannabis users, those in the medical, sports, law enforcement, and educational communities and, of course, children, teenagers, and parents. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman Levels: https://levels.link/huberman Thesis: https://takethesis.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Huberman Lab Premium https://hubermanlab.com/premium For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com Timestamps (00:00:00) Cannabis (Marijuana) (00:04:46) New: Huberman Lab Premium (00:07:03) Tool: Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR), Sleep & Anxiety (00:10:08) Levels, Thesis, InsideTracker (00:14:01) Momentous Supplements (00:15:08) Cannabis Strains, Psychoactive Compounds: THC & CBD (00:19:34) Sativa vs. Indica, Stimulant vs. Relaxation Effects (00:25:55) Hybrid Cannabis Strains, Type 1, 2 & 3 Strains (00:30:41) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:31:56) Naturally Occurring Receptors: Nicotinic & Cannabinoid Receptors (CB1) (00:40:35) THC, CBD vs. Endogenous Cannabinoids, Dependence (00:43:14) Endogenous Cannabinoids, Cannabinoid Receptors & Nervous System Function (00:53:07) Biological Effects of Cannabis (00:56:29) Cannabis Sativa & Subjective Effects: Mood, Stress, Alertness, Paranoia (01:04:58) Cannabis Indica & Subjective Effects, Memory, Dosage (01:09:41) Brain Areas Affected by THC & CBD, Side Effects (01:16:08) Creativity: Convergent vs. Divergent Thinking & Dopamine (01:26:41) Does Cannabis Increase Creativity? (01:35:08) Chronic Cannabis Use & Changes in Speech Patterns (01:46:46) Cannabis & Libido, Dopamine & Prolactin (01:56:55) Cannabis & Hormones: Prolactin, Testosterone, Estrogen & Fertility (02:06:53) Smoking/Vaping Tobacco or Cannabis & Negative Health Consequences (02:10:06) Avoiding Cannabis During Pregnancy/Breastfeeding, Fetal Neural Development (02:18:13) Negative Health Consequences of Cannabis, Anxiety & Depression, Tolerance (02:25:57) Cannabis Use & Adolescence/Young Adulthood, Predisposition to Psychosis (02:34:36) Adolescent Cannabis Use: Brain Development & Mental Health Disorders (02:41:44) Cannabis & Pain Management, Divergent Effects of Cannabis (02:44:54) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Huberman Lab Premium, Momentous Supplements, Neural Network Newsletter, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn  Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

I don't know about you but I definitely remember seeing comments on my report cards that read, “spends too much time daydreaming”. But is daydreaming really a bad thing? And how does daydreaming relate to creativity? We talk about this and more in this episode with Paula Intravaia from The Cloud Club Collective. Connect with Paulawww.mycloudclub.orgwww.instagram.com/cloud_club_collective

On today's episode Kristin talks about the importance of Divergent Thinking when coming up with solutions or new business ideas and shares several ways we can be better creative problem solvers. Learn how asking questions, being a 'World Class Noticer', being Open-minded, and collaborating will help you generate more and different ideas and solutions through divergent or different thinking which leads to more creative ideas and solutions. Ready to Be Encouraged and Shift Your Mindset? Join my 7 Day Encouragement Challenge (get 7 emails with positive ideas, quick exercises and bible verses to Lift You Up in Your Day.)-https://kristinfitch.com/encouragedlife/ ( click here.) Coming Soon - Creative Detours (TM) Workshop Series & Workbook and Your One Beautiful Thing Mentoring Program- reach out to Kristin to learn more. Ready to get going?  Join our amazing Community of Faith-Led Writers, Speakers, Coaches & Podcasters in our Online Business Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/724227658716606/ ( Writers, Speakers, Coaches & Podcasters Online Business Support Group))   (this is perfect for coaches, consultants, authors, speakers or creative entrepreneurs).https://www.facebook.com/groups/724227658716606 ( Join Here.)

Slappin' Glass is joined this week by the Co-Founders of MVMT Sports, Alan Keane and Simon Turner. Coach Keane has years of experience at both the professional and youth levels, and Coach Turner is both a coach and entrepreneur focusing on social change. Together they give a dynamic interview about coaching in isolation, divergent thinking, handling pressure, and discuss anger, arrogance, and building resilient players during the always fun "Start, Sub, or Sit?!"For more information on how to join coaches and staffs who are taking advantage of an SG Plus membership, visit HERE. 

"I just found myself in a situation where I was challenged with that decision. Are you going to choose you or are you going to continue on in this fashion and then potentially make things worse for yourself, put yourself in the hospital or even worst case scenario."Dr. Virginia LeBlanc is the owner and operator of Defining Paths and Next Steps coaching. She's known as a pivot maestro and author of Love the Skin You're In how to Conquer Life Through Divergent Thinking.This is Dr. Virginia LeBlanc's story...Dr. Virginia LeBlanc is an entrepreneur who helps people pivot in their lives. She is known as a pivot maestro and author of Love the Skin You're In how to Conquer Life Through Divergent Thinking. She has had a diverse range of experiences in her career, including working as an attorney, a defense contractor, and a human resources director. These experiences have led her to her current work as a coach, helping others to find their purpose and redesign their lives. Dr. LeBlanc's own journey of self-discovery began when she was living on the island of Crete and working as a human resources director. During this time, she realized that she was not operating in her soul purpose and that she was ready to start her own business. She left her job and started her own coaching and consulting practice.In this episode, you will learn the following:1. How Dr. LeBlanc's experience in Greece led her to pursue entrepreneurship full time2. The AHA moment that Dr. LeBlanc had while working in an environment that was not aligned with her core values3. How Dr. LeBlanc's work in coaching helps people pivot to a new way of lifeConnect with Dr. V: Dr. V's website is https://definingpaths.online Instagram.com/pivotmaestro.https://www.linkedin.com/in/pivotmaestroConnect with Dawn:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overseasliferedesign/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/overseasliferedesignTwitter: @overseaspatsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: http://opats.comSupport the show

https://fellow.app/supermanagers/zack-onisko-dribbble-lessons-from-a-bootstrapped-startup-team-building-divergent-thinking-tiger-metrics/ Trust your team to take things off your plate. How do you do that? By delegation, sharing your legos, and avoid being a bottleneck. Zack Onisko is the CEO of Dribbble, a community where designers share, grow, & get hired. On episode 108, Zack talks about his transition from individual contributor to management and how to determine what to delegate. Zack also shared his insights on the culture at Dribbble and his strategy for hiring senior experts. Lastly, Zack shares his strategy for using tiger metrics, separating emotion from design, and divergent thinking. Tune in to hear all about Zack's leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!

POWERFUL BOOST Divergent Thinking Capabilities WAKE UP CREATIVE SIDE OF YOU SUBSCRIBE NOW

If you're listening, Dr. Todd Kashdan hopes you disagree (at least with something). Dr. Kashdan is a leading expert on the psychology of well-being, curiosity, mental flexibility and social relationships. He is currently a Professor of Psychology and founder of the Well-Being Lab at George Mason University. He is an author of five books, including his most recent “The Art of Insubordination: How to dissent and defy effectively”.   In today's episode Dr. Kashdan discusses why most “rebels” are not effective. The importance of Divergent Thinking. The need to instill fortitude in young athletes and the case for constructive coaching. Lessons learned in motivation from Phil Jackson to Bob Knight. What is principled insubordination and the right way to create change. Why your small talk is terrible and the reason you should embrace emotionally uncomfortable experiences.    Support the Show with Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/kengunter   Chapters:  0:00 - No shortage of rebels, but are they effective? 8:00 - The importance of Divergent Thinking 11:00 - Fortitude - Ted Lasso or Bob Knight 18:00 - The case for constructive feedback 22:00 - How great coaches motivate their players 24:00 - Principled Insubordination - what today's activists are getting wrong 30:00- What activists can learn from the gay rights movement 35:00 - Manipulation and the strategic path to progress and consideration of your enemy 44:00 - Phil Jackson and Dennis Rodman 46:00 - Relationship between curiosity and intelligence 55:00 - stop having small talk and key to great questions 1:03 - embrace emotionally uncomfortable experiences 1:08 - awareness of your own biases and limitations   Mentioned in Today's Show:  Books by Dr. Kashdan:  Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively The Upside of Your Darkside: Why Being YTour Whole Self-Not just Your “Good” Self-Drives Success and Fulfillment    Other books mentioned:  “Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion” - By Pete Carroll Grant - By Ron Chernow   Rayden's story: https://vimeo.com/702702219   Follow Dr. Kashdan website - https://toddkashdan.com/ Twitter: @toddkashdan   For Our Listeners: Hyperice 10% discount for our listeners - https://bit.ly/3IalDa1 Libsyn use promo code “KEN” for 2 months FREE - https://bit.ly/3tNkpxC    Follow The Professional Athlete Podcast with Ken Gunter: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kengunter Instagram: @kengunter_tpa Website: https://www.kengunter.com/ YouTube: Ken Gunter https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRhgjkoSiJXAbS_MIasvvzQ/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kengunterpodcast Audio recorded with SquadCast: https://squadcast.fm/?ref=kengunter Audio Produced By: Justin Gunter Show Produced By: Ken Gunter, Justin Gunter Content Designer: Austin Suit Music: “Up and Down” by Patrick Sweany

Creativity, divergent thinking, cognitive flexibility, focus, and productivity are all boosted under the influence of dark chocolate. Dark chocolate has lower amounts of sugar than milk chocolate. Sugar can crush creativity, focus, and actually decrease mood.

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/impactfulkids When I first received the book The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively by my guest on today's show, Todd Kashdan, I thought it was going to be some fringe rebel handbook or something like TheAlchemist's Cookbook, or a title that was meant to incite riots and violence. I was dead wrong. Instead, this book is a research-based toolbox for anyone who wants to create a world with more justice, creativity, and courage. I eventually wound up interviewing Todd for the episode "The Art Of Insubordination: How To Dissent And Defy Effectively, With Todd Kashdan." But now, Todd is back—and he's back specifically to focus on content that will be featured in my upcoming book Boundless Parenting, which will showcase Todd and 30+ additional amazing parents from around the globe sharing their deep wisdom and advice so that you can be a better parent and better human. Look for that new parenting book to launch in the winter of 2022 and click here to stay updated on the book release. In the meantime, if you want to know how to raise kids who swim upstream, who aren't sheeple, and who can gracefully decline to participate hook, line, and sinker in the anemic social standards of modern society, you'll want to tune in. In this episode, you'll discover: -Todd shares about his children, and what he's most proud about them... -How to train children in the skill of divergent thinking... -Resources Todd uses to raise his daughters... -How to approach relying on others for children's development... -Things Todd learned while writing his book he's passing on to his children... -Reconciling differing parenting styles when mom and dad live under different roofs... -Exposing children to societal taboos in an environment the parent can control... -How to carve out one on one time with children... -Final questions for Todd... -The message for parents Todd would put on a billboard... -And much more... Episode sponsors: -Nootopia -Butcher Box -HigherDOSE -Chili Technologies -Kion Aminos https://bengreenfieldlife.com/impactfulkids

Episode 27: in today's episode we're breaking down convergent and divergent thinking and how they show up in business. One way of thinking allows you to give yourself choices and choose the “right” answer for you. And the other way of thinking allows you to stop looking for the right answer, realize all the answers that are available and choose the way you want to choose.

Episode Summary: Is it possible that there can be multiple right answers to the same question? Absolutely, that is divergent thinking. If you're in the US or Canada, text me at 949-799-0788 so we can chat in more detail about the different topics we cover :) I'll also send you daily prompts that help you get to know yourself better and build a more meaningful life every day! Not in the US? Send me a DM on Instagram @self.improvement.daily! Looking to be challenged and encouraged on your personal development journey? Join our Better Together Community to meet like-minded people that can help you grow into your best you (and maybe even be featured on the podcast!) Application Only: Click here to see if it's a good fit to work One-On-One with me! (Brian)

Work up a sweat. Think differently than everyone else. That is where extraordinary happens. Live your intention. We have an opportunity for divergent thinking. 

Lauren and JJ discuss a case of veterinary resiliency, including the importance of mental flexibility, divergent thinking. The ladies also discuss brainstorming and goal setting.

Mandy Froehlich is an educator former instructional coach and Director of Innovation and Technology who passionately encourages educators to create innovative change in their classrooms. Her interest lies in reinvigorating and re-engaging teachers back into their profession as well as what's needed to support teachers in their pursuit of innovative and divergent thinking and teaching. Mandy consults internationally with school districts and post-secondary institutions in the effective use of technology to support teaching mental health for educators and how to create organizational change. Froehlich's work as a graduate instructor allows her to positively impact the next generation of instructional leaders. Her books on mental health awareness and educational engagement can be found on her website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Edumatch publishing. Key Takeaways: Happiness is a human right. Build engagement through trust, support, and understanding what teachers need. Conversations containing emotion must always be done in person. Leaders must be explicit in determining how best to support teachers. Use the thinking protocol 1, 2, 4, and All. Organic conversations often yield the best results. Make sure you use different strategies outside of the norm to have conversations. The busier we are, the less time we have to be creative and innovative. Innovation is a teacher driven system that needs a positive culture and climate that takes teacher's needs into consideration. We need to get out of the deficit thinking trap. Schools should be about the feeling or emotion you get when you walk into the building. Successful education requires the leveling out of the inhumane practices (testing, data, etc.) with the relationship building and human aspects. People have to feel as if you know them as a human if there is to be trust. Contact: Website: https://www.mandyfroehlich.com/ Books The Fire Within: Lessons from defeat that have inspired a passion for learning Divergent EDU: Challenging assumptions and limitations to create a culture of innovation The Educator's Matchbook: A weekly guide to reigniting your love of teaching, building resilience, and fighting burnout and disengagement Reignite the Flames: Finding our passion and purpose for learning among the embers Twitter: @froehlichm --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

#006 - We're trained to leave our emotions at the doorstep when it comes to work but using emotions consciously and intentionally can make individuals and teams more creative, more motivated and happier. This is according to Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, who studies the role of emotion and emotional intelligence in creativity. Zorana shares her insights on using different emotions for the divergent and convergent parts of a design process and how designers and facilitators can manage their and their team's emotions to help them be more creative. We also talk about the benefits of acknowledging your feelings at work instead of hiding them. Zorana also shares her tips for bringing more emotional intelligence into your workplace as a leader, individual contributor or even someone starting a new role and how even a single individual can spread a positive emotion contagion by being the first one to embrace their emotions.In this episode:The types of emotions needed for divergent and convergent thinkingHow and when to introduce constraints into a creative processAcknowledging and labelling feelings to relieve the pressure of hiding themBringing emotional intelligence into work proactivelyManaging emotions in a new roleTalking to co-workers about how you're feelingImportance of rituals to begin and end meetings to prevent negative emotional contagionShownotesJoin the Design Feeling Fireside chat with Zorana on Thu 24th Feb 2022 2pm UK timehttps://www.designfeeling.co/fireside/Zorana's blog on Psychology Todayhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/zorana-ivcevic-pringle-phdGravitational waveshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_waveEmotional granularityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_granularityRituals for Work by Kursat Ozenc and Margaret Haganhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41544270-rituals-for-workCourage to Create by Rolly Mayhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/646141.The_Courage_to_CreateZorana's websitehttps://zoranaivcevicpringle.com/Zorana's Twitterhttps://twitter.com/ZoranaPsych

Liina Turtonen is a musician, producer, and educator, who runs the LNA Does Audio Stuff YouTube channel. Liina is an Ableton Certified Trainer who focuses on making music production more accessible for all people while teaching confidence and workflow strategies for overcoming the challenges of making music. Listen on Apple or Stitcher or Google or Spotify; watch on YouTube Show Notes: Liina's Web Site - https://www.lnamusic.com LNA Does Audio Stuff YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/LNADoesAudioStuff/featured Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/LNADoesAudioStuff Equalize Music Production - https://equalizeproduction.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lnadoesaudiostuff/ Convergent vs. Divergent Thinking - https://youtu.be/xjE2RV6IQzo Rachel K. Collier - https://www.rachelkcollier.com Adam Rokhsar on the Music Production Podcast - https://brianfunk.com/blog/adam-rokhsar Brian Funk Links: Website - https://brianfunk.com Intro Music Made with 16-Bit Ableton Live Pack - https://brianfunk.com/blog/16-bit Music Production Club - https://brianfunk.com/mpc  5-Minute Music Producer - https://brianfunk.com/blog/5minute Music Production Podcast - https://brianfunk.com/podcast Save 25% on Ableton Live Packs at my store with the code: PODCAST - https://brianfunk.com/store Thank you for listening.  Please review the Music Production Podcast on your favorite podcast provider! And don't forget to visit my site https://BrianFunk.com for music production tutorials, videos, and sound packs. Brian Funk

In this episode, I dive into divergent thinking. Divergent thinking is a stage in the strategic thinking process where you are intentionally creating lots of ideas without judgement. Many schools want to harness innovation and encourage creativity and this is a great tool to utilise for this. I  start by discussing how you can create an environment for divergent thinking to thrive and have narrowed it down into three areas:1. Ensure there is diversity within your discussions2. Separate divergent and convergent thinking3. Make people feel safe to contribute Once you have created the right environment for divergent thinking, you need to know how to generate the right conversations. I explore the three questions you can ask yourself to help guide divergent thinking.If you are trying to increase the amount of innovation or just encourage change within your school,  having a focus on this divergent thinking stage can really be helpful to supercharge your strategic thinking around certain issues.References and ResourcesEpisode 15: Supercharge your strategic thinking (strategy toolkit 4)Catch up on previous podcast episodes at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/podcast Download your copy of the free eBook ‘The Strategic Independent School Leader' at www.consultjuliet.co.uk/ebookThank you so much for listening to The Independent School Podcast. I would be grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to send me some feedback here. This helps me make the podcast as helpful as possible to listeners. Thank you!

Subject/Title: Divergent thinking and access to creative problem solving   So, what is creative Divergent thinking? Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions.  The goal of divergent thinking is to generate many different ideas about a topic in a short period of time. Following divergent thinking, the ideas and information will be organised using convergent thinking; i.e., putting the various ideas back together in some organised, structured way. You can use divergent thinking activities as quick warm-ups to activate creativity or as a brain-break in the middle of a more analytical task. In today's episode of Liberate Your People Pleaser I'm going to dig deep on this topic with my guest,Bella Englebach. Bella Englebach has been applying divergent thinking to operations and R&D for over fifteen years. Trained as a scientist, she helps people to see that the heart of “lean” improvement is the scientific method. She works with leaders and managers to create environments where problems can be seen, innovative solutions can be discovered and tested, and people can truly drive improvement. What you will discover: - What is Divergent thinking, and how to access it? - How do we start to lose our creativity? - What is the difference between divergent thinking & conversion thinking ? - Why getting attached to Ideas is dangerous? And much more… Listen to today's episode NOW! -------------------------- -Get the deets on The Solve It Method™ Digital Program HERE. -Book a call to explore working with me: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=11249251&appointmentType=8395116 Ask a question to be addressed on a future episode, HERE or email me at brenda@brendaflorida.com

Vito and Chris talk with Karen Spindler. She is one of the most creative and organized planners that we have met. Join us as we look at her story and her vision of organization and planning. We both left this conversation and went right to our laptops and started working on our next courses!

02:01 - Kat's Superpower: Terrible Puns! * Puns & ADHD; Divergent Thinking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_thinking) * Punching Down (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=punching%20down) * Idioms (https://www.ef.edu/english-resources/english-idioms/) 08:07 - Security Awareness Education & Accessibility * Phishing * Unconscious Bias Training That Works (https://hbr.org/2021/09/unconscious-bias-training-that-works) * Psychological Safety * 239: Accessibility and Sexuality with Eli Holderness (https://www.greaterthancode.com/accessibility-and-sexuality) * Management Theory of Frederick Taylor (https://www.business.com/articles/management-theory-of-frederick-taylor/) * Building a Security Culture For Oh Sh*t Moments | Human Layer Security Summit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=d2girBtrbCQ&feature=emb_logo) * Decision Fatigue 20:58 - Making the Safe Thing Easy * (in)Secure Development - Why some product teams are great and others aren't… (https://tldrsec.com/blog/insecure-development-why-some-product-teams-are-great-and-others-arent/) * The Swiss Cheese Model of Error Prevention (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1298298/) 22:43 - Awareness; Security Motivation; Behavior and Culture (ABC) * AIDA: Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDA_(marketing)) * Inbound Marketing (https://www.hubspot.com/inbound-marketing) 33:34 - Dietary Accessibility; Harm Reduction and Threat Monitoring * Celiac Disease (https://celiac.org/about-celiac-disease/what-is-celiac-disease/) * A Beginner's Guide to a Low FODMAP Diet (https://www.benefiber.com/fiber-in-your-life/fiber-and-wellness/beginners-guide-to-low-fodmap-diet/?gclsrc=aw.ds&gclid=Cj0KCQiAnuGNBhCPARIsACbnLzqJkfl2XxxUQVSAGU96cmdVl5S7gn6GXnOQAHf-Sn0zEHvBBKINObUaAlOvEALw_wcB) * Casin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casein) * DisInfoSec 2021: Kat Sweet - Dietary Accessibility in Tech Workplaces (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG1DApAlcK4&feature=youtu.be) Reflections: John: Internal teams relating to other internal teams as a marketing issue. Casey: Phishing emails cause harm. Kat: AIDA: Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDA_(marketing)) Unconscious Bias Training That Works (https://hbr.org/2021/09/unconscious-bias-training-that-works) The Responsible Communication Style Guide (https://rcstyleguide.com/) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Transcript: PRE-ROLL: Software is broken, but it can be fixed. Test Double's superpower is improving how the world builds software by building both great software and great teams. And you can help! Test Double is hiring empathetic senior software engineers and DevOps engineers. We work in Ruby, JavaScript, Elixir and a lot more. Test Double trusts developers with autonomy and flexibility at a remote, 100% employee-owned software consulting agency. Looking for more challenges? Enjoy lots of variety while working with the best teams in tech as a developer consultant at Test Double. Find out more and check out remote openings at link.testdouble.com/greater. That's link.testdouble.com/greater. JOHN: Welcome to Episode 263 of Greater Than Code. I'm John Sawers and I'm here with Casey Watts. CASEY: Hi, I'm Casey! And we're both here with our guest today, Kat Sweet. Hi, Kat. KAT: Hi, John! Hi, Casey! CASEY: Well, Kat Sweet is a security professional who specializes in security education and engagement. She currently works at HubSpot building out their employee security awareness program, and is also active in their disability ERG, Employee Resource Group. Since 2017, she has served on the staff of the security conference BSides Las Vegas, co-leading their lockpick village. Her other superpower is terrible puns, or, if they're printed on paper—she gave me this one—tearable puns. [laughter] KAT: Like written paper. CASEY: Anyway. Welcome, Kat. So glad to have you. KAT: Thanks! I'm happy to be here. CASEY: Let's kick it off with our question. What is your superpower and how did you acquire it? KAT: [chuckles] Well, as I was saying to both of y'all before this show started, I was thinking I'm going to do a really serious skillful superpower that makes me sound smart because that's what a lot of other people did in theirs. I don't know, something like I'm a connector, or I am good at crosspollination. Then I realized no, [chuckles] like it, or not, terrible puns are my actual superpower. [laughter] Might as well just embrace it. I think as far as where I acquired it, probably a mix of forces. Having a dad who was the king of dad puns certainly helped and actually, my dad's whole extended family is really into terrible puns as well. We have biweekly Zoom calls and they just turn into everyone telling bad jokes sometimes. [laughter] But I think it also probably helps that, I don't know, having ADHD, my brain hops around a lot and so, sometimes makes connections in weird places. Sometimes that happens with language and there were probably also some amount of influences just growing up, I don't know, listening to Weird Al, gets puns in his parodies. Oh, and Carlos from The Magic School Bus. CASEY: Mm hmm. Role models. I agree. Me too. [laughter] KAT: Indeed. So now I'm a pundit. CASEY: I got a pun counter going in my head. It just went ding! KAT: Ding! [laughter] CASEY: I never got – [overtalk] KAT: They've only gotten worse during the pandemic. CASEY: Oh! Ding! [laughter] Maybe we'll keep it up. We'll see. I never thought of the overlap of puns and ADHD. I wonder if there's any study showing if it does correlate. It sounds right. It sounds right to me. KAT: Yeah, that sounds like a thing. I have absolutely no idea, but I don't know, something to do with divergent thinking. CASEY: Yeah. JOHN: Yeah. I'm on board with that. CASEY: Sometimes I hang out in the channels on Slack that are like #puns, or #dadjokes. Are you in any of those? What's the first one that comes to mind for you, your pun community online? KAT: Oh yeah. So actually at work, I joined my current role in August and during the first week, aside from my regular team channels, I had three orders of business. I found the queer ERG Slack channel, I found the disability ERG Slack channel, and I found the dad jokes channel. [laughter] That was a couple of jobs ago when I worked at Duo Security. I've been told that some of them who are still there are still talking about my puns because we would get [laughs] pretty bad pun threads going in the Slack channels there. CASEY: What a good reputation. KAT: Good, bad, whatever. [laughs] CASEY: Yeah. KAT: I don't know. Decent as a form of humor that's safe for work goes, too because it's generally hard to, I guess, punch down with them other than the fact that everyone's getting punched with a really bad pun, but they're generally an equalizing force. [chuckles] CASEY: Yeah. I love that concept. Can you explain to our listeners, punching down? KAT: So this is now the Great British Bake Off and we're talking about bread. No, just kidding. [laughter] No, I think in humor a lot of times, sometimes people talk about punching up versus punching down in terms of who is actually in on the joke. When you're trying to be funny, are you poking fun at people who are more marginalized than you, or are you poking at the people with a ton of privilege? And I know it's not always an even concept because obviously, intersectionality is a thing and it's not just a – privilege isn't a linear thing. But generally, what comes to mind a lot is, I don't know, white comedians making fun of how Black people talk, or men comedians making rape jokes at women's expense, or something like that. Like who's actually being punched? [chuckles] CASEY: Yeah. KAT: Obviously, ideally, you don't want to punch anyone, but that whole concept of where's the humor directed and is it contributing to marginalization? CASEY: Right, right. And I guess puns aren't really punching at all. KAT: Yeah. CASEY: Ding! KAT: Ding! There goes the pun counter. Yeah, the only thing I have to mindful of, too is not over relying on them in my – my current role is in a very global company so even though all employees speak English to some extent, English isn't everyone's first language and there are going to be some things that fly over people's heads. So I don't want to use that exclusively as a way to connect with people. CASEY: Right, right. JOHN: Yeah. It is so specific to culture even, right. Because I would imagine even UK English would have a whole gray area where the puns may not land and vice versa. KAT: Oh, totally. Just humor in general is so different in every single culture. Yeah, it's really interesting. JOHN: Yeah, that reminds me. Actually, just today, I started becoming weirdly aware as I was typing something to one of my Indian colleagues and I'm not sure what triggered it, but I started being aware of all the idioms that I was using and what I was typing. I was like, “Well, this is what I would normally say to an American,” and I'm just like, “Wait, is this all going to come through?” I think that way might lead to madness, though if you start trying to analyze every idiom you use as you're speaking. But it was something that just suddenly popped into my mind that I'm going to try and keep being a little bit more aware of because there's so many ways to miss with communication when you rely on obscure idioms, or certain ways of saying things that aren't nearly as clear as they could be. [chuckles] KAT: Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure that's definitely a thing in all the corporate speak about doubling down, circling back, parking lots, and just all the clicking, all of those things. [laughter] But yeah, that's actually something that was on my run recently, too with revamping one of the general security awareness courses that everyone gets is that in the way we talk about how to look for a phishing – spot a phishing email. First of all, one of the things that at least they didn't do was say, “Oh, look for poor grammar, or misspelled words,” because that's automatically really exclusive to people whose first language isn't English, or people who have dyslexia. But I was also thinking we talk about things like subtle language cues in suspicious emails around a sense of urgency, like a request being made trying to prey on your emotion and I'm like, “How accessible is that, I guess, for people whose first language is English to try and spot a phishing email based on those kind of things?” Like how much – [chuckles] how much is too much to ask of…? Like opinions about phishing emails, or the phishing training anyway being too much to ask of people to some degree, but I don't know. There's so much subtlety in it that just is really easy for people to lose. JOHN: Yeah. I mean, I would imagine that even American English speakers – [overtalk] KAT: Yeah. JOHN: With a lot of experience still have trouble. Like actually, [chuckles] I just got apparently caught by one of them, the test phishing emails, but they notified me by sending me an email and saying, “You were phished, click here to go to the training.” And I'm like, “I'm not going to click on that!” [laughter] I just got phished! KAT: Yeah. JOHN: But I think my larger point is again, you're talking about so many subtleties of language and interpretations to try and tease these things out. I'm sure there are a lot of people with a range of non-typical neurologies where that sort of thing isn't going to be obvious, even if they are native English speakers. KAT: Exactly. Myself included having ADHD. [laughs] JOHN: Yeah. KAT: Yeah. It's been interesting trying to think through building out security awareness stuff in my current role and in past roles, and having ADHD and just thinking about how ADHD unfriendly a lot of the [laughs] traditional approaches are to all this. Even like you were just saying, “You got phished, take this training.” It seems like the wrong sequence of events because if you're trying to teach someone a concept, you need to not really delay the amount of time in between presenting somebody with a piece of information and giving them a chance to commit it to memory. ADHD-ers have less working memory than neurotypical people to begin with, but that concept goes for everyone. So when you're giving someone training that they might not actually use in practice for several more months until they potentially get phished again, then it becomes just information overload. So that's something that I think about. Another way that I see this playing out in phishing training in particular, but other security awareness stuff is motivation and reward because we have a less amount of intrinsic motivation. Something like, I don't know, motivation and reward system just works differently with people who have trouble hanging onto dopamine. ADHD-ers and other people's various executive dysfunction stuff. So when you're sitting through security training that's not engaging, that's not particular lead novel, or challenging, or of personal interest, or is going to have a very delayed sense of reward rather than something that immediately gratifying, there's going to be a limitation to how much people will actually learn, be engaged, and can actually be detrimental. So I definitely think about stuff like that. CASEY: That reminds me of a paper I read recently about—I said this on a previous episode, too. I guess, maybe I should find the paper, dig it up, and share. KAT: Cool. [laughter] CASEY: Oh, but it said, “Implicit bias awareness training doesn't work at all ever” was an original paper. No, that's not what it said of course, but that's how people read it and then a follow-up said, “No, boring! PowerPoint slide presentations that aren't interactive aren't interactive.” [laughter] “But the interactive ones are.” Surprise! KAT: Right. That's the thing. That's the thing. Yeah, and I think there's also just, I don't know. I remember when I was first getting into security, people were in offices more and security awareness posters were a big thing. Who is going to remember that? Who's going to need to know that they need to email security at when they're in the bathroom? [laughs] Stuff like that that's not particularly engaging nor particularly useful in the moment. But that DEI paper is an interesting one, too. I'll have to read that. CASEY: Do you have experience making some of these trainings more interactive and getting the quicker reward that's not delayed and what does that look like for something like phishing, or another example? KAT: It's a mixed bag and it's something that I'm still kind of – there's something that I'm figuring out just as we're scaling up because in past roles, mostly been in smaller companies. But one thing that I think people, who are building security awareness and security education content for employees, miss is the fact that there's a certain amount of baseline level of interaction and context that you can't really automate a way, especially for new hires. I know having just gone through process that onboarding weeks are always kind of information overload. But people are going to at least remember more, or be more engaged if they're getting some kind of actual human contact with somebody who they're going to be working with; they've got the face, they've got some context for who their security team is, what they do, and they won't just be clicking through a training that's got canned information that is no context to where they're working and really no narrative and nowhere for them to ask questions. Because I always get really interesting questions every time I give some kind of live security education stuff; people are curious. I think it's important that security education and engagement is really an enhancer to a security program. It can't be carrying all the weight of relationships between the security team and the rest of the company. You're going to get dividends by having ongoing positive relationships with your colleagues that aren't just contact the security team once a year during training. CASEY: And even John's email, like the sample test email, which I think is better than not doing it for sure. But that's like a ha ha got you. That's not really [chuckles] relationship building. Barely. You've got to already have the relationship for it to – [overtalk] KAT: No, it's not and that's – yeah. And that's why I think phishing campaigns are so tricky. I think they're required by some compliance frameworks and by cyber insurance frameworks. So some places just have to have them. You can't just say we're not going to run internal phishing campaigns, unfortunately, regardless of whether that's actually the right thing for businesses. But I think the angle should always be familiarizing people with how to report email like that to the security team and reinforcing psychological safety. Not making people feel judged, not making people feel bad, and also not making them sit through training if they get caught because that's not psychological safety either and it really doesn't pay attention to results. It's very interesting, I remember I listened to your episode with Eli Holderness and at some point, one of the hosts mentioned something about human factors and safety science on the evolving nature of how people management happens in the workplace. How there was this old model of humans being a problem to be managed, supervised, and well, just controlled and how the new view of organizational psychology and people management is more humans are your source of success so you need to enable their growth and build them up. I think a lot of security education approaches are kind of still stuck in that old model, almost. I've seen progress, but I think a lot of them have a lot of work to do in still being, even if they're not necessarily as antagonistic, or punitive, they still feel sometimes paternalistic. Humans are like, “If I hear the phrase, ‘Humans are the weakest link one more time,' I'm going to table flip.” First of all, humans are all the links, but also – [overtalk] JOHN: Yeah. KAT: It's saying like, we need to save humans, which are somehow the security team is not humans. We need to save humans from themselves because they're too incompetent to know what to do. So we need, yeah – which is a terrible attitude. CASEY: Yeah. KAT: And I think it misses the point that first of all, not everyone is going to become a security expert, or hypervigilant all the time and that's okay. But what we can do is focus on the good relationships, focus on making the training we have and need to do somewhat interactive and personal and contextual, and let go of the things you can't control. [chuckles] JOHN: Yeah, I think Taylorism is the name for that management style. I think it came around in the 40s and – [overtalk] KAT: Really? JOHN: Yeah, ruined a lot of lives. [laughs] Yeah, and I think your point about actually accepting the individual humanity of the people you're trying to influence and work with rather than as some sort of big amorphous group of fuckups, [laughs] for lack of a better word. Giving them some credit, giving them, like you said, something that's not punitive, somewhere where they don't get punished for their security lapses, or forgetting a thing, or clicking the link is going to be a lot more rewarding than, like you said, just making someone sit through training. Like for me, the training I want from whatever it was I clicked on is show me the email I clicked on, I will figure out how it tricked me and then I will learn. I don't need a whole – [overtalk] KAT: Yes. JOHN: 3 hours of video courses, or whatever. I will see the video, [chuckles] I will see the email, and that is a much more organic thing than here's the training for you. KAT: Exactly. Yeah, you have to again, give some people a way to actually commit it to memory. Get it out of RAM and into SSD. JOHN: Yeah. [laughter] KAT: But yeah, I love that and fortunately, I think some other places are starting to do interesting, innovative approaches. My former colleague, Kim Burton, who was the Security Education Lead at Duo when I was there and just moved to Texas, gave a webinar recently on doing the annuals security training as a choose your own adventure so that it could be replicated among a wide group of people, but that people could take various security education stuff that was specific to their own role and to their own threat model. I really liked that. I like being able to give people some amount of personalization and get them actually thinking about what they're specifically interacting with. JOHN: Yeah, yeah. That's great and it also makes me think about there are undoubtedly things I'm pretty well informed in security and other things that I'm completely ignorant about. I'd rather not sit through a training that covers both of those things. Like if there's a way for me to choose my own adventure through it so that I go to the parts where I'm actually learning useful things. Again, a, it saves everybody time and b, it means I'm not fast forwarding through the video, hoping it'll just end, and then possibly missing things that are actually useful to me. CASEY: I'm thinking of a concrete example, I always remember and think of and that's links and emails. I always hover and look at the URL except when I'm on my phone and you can't do that. Oh, I don't know. It has never come up in a training I've seen. KAT: Yeah, you can click and hold, but it's harder and I think that speaks to the fact that security teams should lead into putting protections around email security more so than relying entirely on their user base to hover every single link, or click and hold on their phone, or just do nothing when it comes to reporting suspicious emails. There's a lot of decision fatigue that, I think security teams still put on people whose job is not security and I hope that that continues to shift over time. JOHN: Yeah. I mean, you're bringing up the talking about management and safety theory that probably came from Rein Henrichs, who is one of our other hosts. But one of the things he also has talked about on, I think probably multiple shows is about setting the environment for the people that makes the safe thing easy. KAT: Right. JOHN: So that all the defaults roll downhill into safety and security rather than well, here's a level playing field you have to navigate yourself through and there's some potholes and da, da, da, and you have to be aware of them and constantly on alert and all those things. Whereas, if you tilt the field a little bit, you make sure everything runs in the right direction, then the right thing becomes the easy thing and then you win. KAT: Exactly, exactly. I think it's important to put that not only in the technical defaults – [overtalk] JOHN: Yeah, yeah. KAT: But also process defaults to some degree. One of my colleagues just showed me a talk that was, I think from perhaps at AppSec Cali. I'll have to dig it up. But there was somebody talking about making I guess, threat modeling and anti-abuse mindsets more of a default in product development teams and how they added one single line to their sprint planning—how could this feature potentially be misused by a user—and that alone just got people thinking just that little process change. JOHN: Yeah. That's beautiful. But such a small thing, but constantly repeated at a low level. It's not yelling at anyone to… KAT: Yeah. JOHN: Yeah. KAT: Yeah. And even if the developers and product designers themselves weren't security experts, or anti-abuse experts, it would just get them thinking, “Oh hey, we should reach out to the trust and safety team.” CASEY: Yeah. I'm thinking about so many steps and so many of these steps could be hard. The next one here is the security team responsive and that has a lot to do with are they well-staffed and is this a priority for them? Oh my goodness. KAT: Yeah. [laughs] So many things. CASEY: It's layers. But I'm sure you've heard of this, Kat. The Swiss cheese model of error prevention? KAT: Yeah. Defense in depth. CASEY: Yeah. [chuckles] I like to bring it up on the podcast, too because a lot of engineers and a lot of non-security people don't know about it. KAT: Hmm. CASEY: Do you want to explain it? I don't mind. I can. KAT: Oh, yeah. Basically that there are going to be holes in every step of the process, or the tech and so, that's why it's important to have this layered approach. Because over time, even if something gets through the first set of holes, it may not get through a second set where the holes are in different spots. So you end up with a giant stack of Swiss cheese, which is delicious, and you come out with something that's hopefully pretty same. [laughter] CASEY: Yeah, and it's the layers that are – the mind-blowing thing here is that there can be more than one layer. We don't just need one layer of Swiss cheese on this sandwich, which is everybody pay attention and don't ever get phished, or it's your fault. You can have so many layers than that. It can be like a grilled cheese, really, really thick, grilled cheese. [laughter] KAT: Yes. A grilled cheese where the bread is also cheese. CASEY: Yes! [laughs] MID-ROLL: This episode is supported by Compiler, an original podcast from Red Hat discussing tech topics big, small, and strange. Compiler unravels industry topics, trends, and the things you've always wanted to know about tech, through interviews with the people who know it best. On their show, you will hear a chorus of perspectives from the diverse communities behind the code. Compiler brings together a curious team of Red Hatters to tackle big questions in tech like, what is technical debt? What are tech hiring managers actually looking for? And do you have to know how to code to get started in open source? I checked out the “Should Managers Code?” episode of Compiler, and I thought it was interesting how the hosts spoke with Red Hatters who are vocal about what role, if any, that managers should have in code bases—and why they often fight to keep their hands on keys for as long as they can. Listen to Compiler on Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. We'll also include a link in the show notes. Our thanks to Compiler for their support. CASEY: Earlier, you mentioned awareness, Kat as something interesting. You want to talk about awareness more as a term and how it relates to this? KAT: Oh, yeah. So I – and technically, my job title has security awareness in it, but the more I've worked in the security space doing employee security education stuff as part of all my job. I know language isn't perfect, but I'm kind of the mindset that awareness isn't a good capture of what a role like mine actually should be doing because awareness without behavior change, or action is just noise. It's just we're all very aware of things, but if we don't have an environment that's friendly to us putting that awareness into some kind of action, or engagement, or response, we are just aware and scared. [laughs] CASEY: Yeah, awareness alone just makes us feel bad. We need more than that. KAT: Yeah. So I think security awareness is sometimes just a product of a term that got standardized over several years as it's in all of the compliance control frameworks, security awareness is a part of it. I don't know it's the best practice thing. I hope over time it will continue to evolve. CASEY: Yeah. KAT: As with any other kind of domains. JOHN: Yeah. I think that maybe security motivation might be a better term for it. KAT: I've seen a bunch of different ones used. So I end up speaking in terms of, I don't know, security education and engagement is what I'm working on. Security culture is my vision. I've seen things like security awareness, behavior, and culture, ABC, things like that. But all this to say security awareness not being in a vacuum. CASEY: I like those. This reminds me of a framework I've been thinking about a lot and I use in some of my DEI workshops. AIDA is an acronym. A-I-D-A. The first one's Awareness, the last one is Action, and in the middle is Interest and Desire. KAT: Nice. CASEY: So the questions I use to frame is like, are they aware of, for example, if they're misgendering someone? That's the context I'm using this in a lot. Are they aware of this person's pronouns in the first place? Are they interested in caring about this person and do they want to do anything about it and did they do it? Did they use their proper pronouns? Did they correct their actions? It's like 4 stages – [overtalk] KAT: I like that. CASEY: AIDA. It's used in marketing a lot for like a sales funnel, but I apply it to all sorts of how do you get someone from aware to action? KAT: I like that a lot. It's been interesting working at a place that makes a product that's more in the sales and marketing space. Definitely learned a lot because a couple of previous roles I've had been with security vendors. I think one of the interesting ideas that was a new concept to me when I started was this idea of inbound marketing, where instead of just cold contacting people and telling them, “Be interested in us, be interested in us, buy our stuff,” you generate this reputation as being of good service by putting out useful free nuggets of content, like blog posts, webinars, and things. Then you get people who are interested based on them knowing that you've got this, that you offer a good perspective, and then they all their friend. They are satisfied customers, and they go promote it to people. I think about this as it applies to security teams and the services they provide, because even though corporate security teams are internal, they've still got internal customers. They've still got services that they provide for people. So by making sure that the security team is visible, accessible, and that the good services that they provide are known and you've got satisfied customers, they become promoters to the rest of their teams. Think about like security can definitely learn a lot from [chuckles] these sales and marketing models. CASEY: I can totally imagine the security team being the fun team, the one you want to go work with and do workshops with because they make it so engaging and you want to. You can afford to spend your time on this thing. [laughter] KAT: Oh yes. CASEY: You might do it. [laughter] JOHN: Yeah, and I think marketing's a great model for that. Marketing sort of has a bad reputation, I think amongst a lot of people because it's done badly and evilly by a lot of people. But it's certainly possible and I think inbound market is one of those ways that you're engaging, you're spreading awareness, you're letting people select themselves into your service, and bring their interest to you. If you can develop that kind of rapport with the employees at your company as a security team, everybody wins. KAT: Yeah, absolutely, and it can absolutely be done. When I was working at Duo a couple jobs ago, I was on their security operations team and we were responsible, among other things, for both, the employee security education and being the point of intake; being the people that our colleagues would reach out to with security concerns to security and it definitely could see those relationships pay off by being visible and being of good service. CASEY: So now I'm getting my product manager hat on, like team management. KAT: Yeah. CASEY: I will want to choose the right metrics for a security team that incentivizes letting this marketing kind of approach happen and being the fun team people want to reach out to have the bigger impact and probably the highest metric is like nobody gets a security breach. But that can't be the only one because maybe you'll have a lucky year and maybe you'll have an unlucky that's not the best one. What other metrics are you thinking of? KAT: That's the thing, there's a lot more that goes into not getting pwned than how aware of security people are. There's just way too many factors to that. But – [overtalk] CASEY: Yeah. I guess, I'm especially interested in the human ones, like how come – [overtalk] KAT: Oh, yeah. And I mean like – [overtalk] CASEY: The department allowed to do the things that would be effective, like incentivized and measured in a sense. KAT: Yeah, and I think a lot of security education metrics often have a bit of a longer tail, but I think about not – I don't really care so much about the click rates for internal phishing campaigns, because again, anyone can fall for a phish if it's crafted correctly enough. If it's subtle enough, or if just somebody's distracted, or having a bad day, which we never have. It's not like there's a pandemic, or anything. But for things that are sort of numbers wise, I think about how much are people engaging with security teams not just in terms of reporting suspicious emails, but how often are they reporting ones that aren't a phishing simulation? How much are they working with security teams when they're building new features and what's the impact of that baseline level before there's, I don't know, formal process for security reviews, code reviews, threat modeling stuff in place? What does that story look like over time for the product and for product security? So I think there's quite a bit of narrative data involved in security education metrics. JOHN: Yeah. I mean you could look at inbound interests, like how often are you consulted out of the blue by another team, or even of the materials you've produced, what's the engagement rates on that? I think that's a lower quality one, but I think inbound interest would be fantastic. CASEY: Yeah. KAT: Yeah, exactly. I was thinking to some degree about well, what kinds of vulnerabilities are you shipping in your code? Because I think there's never 100% secure code. But I think if you catch some of the low-hanging fruits earlier on, then sometimes you get an interesting picture of like, okay, security is being infused into the SDLC at all of these various Swiss cheese checkpoints. So think about that to some degree and that's often more of a process thing than a purely an education thing, but getting an education is an enhancer to all of these other parts of the security programs. JOHN: So in the topics for the show that you had suggested to us, one of the things that stood out to me was something you called dietary accessibility. So can you tell me a little bit more about what that means? KAT: So earlier in this year, in the middle of all of this pandemic ridiculousness, I got diagnosed with celiac disease. Fortunately, I guess, if there was a time to be diagnosed with that, it's I'm working remotely and nobody's going out to eat really. Oh, I should back up. I think a lot of people know what it is, but just in case, it's an autoimmune disorder where my body attacks itself when I eat gluten. I've described it in the past as my body thinks that gluten is a nation state adversary named fancy beer. [laughter] Ding, one more for the pun counter. I don't know how many we're up to now. [laughs] CASEY: I have a random story about a diet I had to do for a while for my health. I have irritable bowel syndrome in my family and that means we have to follow over really strict diet called the low FODMAP diet. If your tummy hurts a lot, it's something you might look into because it's underdiagnosed. That meant I couldn't have wheat, but not because I had celiac disease; I was not allergic to the protein in wheat flour. I was intolerant to the starch and wheat flour. So it would bother me a lot. People said, “Do you have celiac, or?” And I was like, “No, but I cannot have wheat because the doctor told me so, but no, it's not an allergy.” I don't know, my logical brain did not like that question. [laughter] That was an invalid question. No, it's not a preference. I prefer to eat bread, but I cannot, or it hurts my body according to my doctor. KAT: [chuckles] So you can't have the starch and I can't have the protein. So together, we can just – [overtalk] CASEY: Separate it! KAT: Split all of the wheat molecules in the world and eat that. [laughs] CASEY: That's fair. I literally made gluten-free bread with gluten. [laughs] I got all the gluten-free starches and then the gluten from the wheat and I didn't have the starch in the wheat and it did not upset my stomach. KAT: Oh man. JOHN: Yeah. I've got a dairy sensitivity, but it's not lactose. It's casein so it's the protein in the dairy. CASEY: Protein, uh huh. KAT: Oh, interesting. CASEY: I apologize on behalf of all the Casey. [laughter] Casey in. KAT: Who let Casey in? CASEY: Ding! KAT: Ding! No, but it's made me think a lot about as I was – first of all, it's just I didn't fully appreciate until I was going through it firsthand, the amount of cognitive overload that just goes into living with it every day. [laughs] Speaking of constant state of hypervigilance, it took a while for that to make it through – I don't know, me to operationalize to my new life that's going to be my reality for the [laughs] rest of my life now because it was just like, “Oh, can I eat this? Can I eat that?” All of that. Something that at least helped ease me out of this initial overwhelm and grieving period was tying some of the stuff that I was dealing with back to how would I do this in my – how would I approach this if this were a security education and security awareness kind of thing? CASEY: Oh, yeah. KAT: Because it's a new concept and it's a thing that is unfamiliar and not everyone is an expert in it. so I'm like, “How would I treat myself as the person who's not an expert in it yet?” I, again, tried to get myself back to some of those same concepts of okay, let's not get stuck in thud mode, let's think about what are some of the actual facts versus what's scaremongering. I don't need to know how much my risk of colon cancer is increased, because that's not how helpful for me to actually be able to go about my day. I need to know what are the gluten-free brands of chips? That's critical infrastructure. CASEY: I love this parallel. This is so cool. KAT: And so I thought about to – I've mentioned earlier, decision fatigue as a security issue. I thought about how can I reduce the decision fatigue and not get stuck just reading all the labels on foods and stuff? What are the shortcuts I can take? Some of those were like okay, let me learn to recognize the labels of what the labels mean of a certified gluten-free logo and also just eat a lot of things that would never have touch gluten to begin with, like plain and raw meat, plain potatoes, plain vegetables, things like that. So just anything to take the cognitive load down a little bit, because it was never going to be zero. It's interesting. Sometimes, I don't know, I have tons of different interests and I've always interested in people's perspective outside of security. A lot of that stuff influences the way I think about security, but sometimes the way I think about security also ends up influencing other stuff in my life, so. CASEY: Yeah. I think that's brilliant. Use – [overtalk] KAT: And interesting to connect with those. CASEY: The patterns and you're comfortable with, and apply them. KAT: Exactly. CASEY: A lot of really cool ideas come from technology. KAT: Yeah, and go for harm reduction, not nothing because we don't live in a gluten-free world. It's like I can try to make myself as safe as possible, but at some point, my gut may suffer a data breach and [laughs] when I do, should be blameless and just work on getting myself recovered and trying – [overtalk] JOHN: Yeah. I mean, thinking about it as a threat model. There's this gluten out there and some of it's obvious, some of it's not obvious. What am I putting in place so that I get that 95th percentile, or whatever it is that you can think of it that way? I like that. KAT: Exactly. It's an interesting tie to threat modeling how the same people – even if people have the same thing that they can't eat, they may still have a different threat model. They may, like how we both had to avoid wheat, but for different reasons and with different side effects, if we eat it and things like that. CASEY: I love these parallels. I imagine you went into some of these in that talk at DisInfoSec. Is that right? KAT: Yeah. A little bit. So DisInfoSec, it's a virtual conference in its second year of existence, specifically highlighting disabled speakers in the InfoSec community run by Kim Crawley, who's a blogger for Hack the Box. There was a really interesting lineup of talks this year. Some people, I think about half of them touched on neurodiversity and various aspects of security through lenses of being autistic and ADHD, which is really cool. For mine, I focused on those of us who have disability-related dietary restrictions and how that affects our life in the tech workplace, where compared to a lot of other places I've worked, there's a lot of free food on the company dime hanging around and there's a lot of use of food as a way to build connection and build community. CASEY: Yeah, and a lot of stuff, a lot of people can't eat. I'm with you, uh huh. KAT: Yeah. I just took stock of all of the times that I would take people up for lunch interviews, go out to dinner with colleagues when they're in town, all of these things. Like snacks in the office. Just there not being a bathroom on the same floor as me for multiple jobs where I worked. [laughs] Things like that. So I really wanted to – the thing that I wanted to highlight in that talk in general was systemic level accommodations to be made for people with be they celiac IBS, food allergies, diabetes rather than relying on people individually requesting accommodations. This universal design model where you've got to make sure that your workplace is by default set up to accommodate people with a wide range of disabilities including dietary needs and a lot of times it doesn't come down to even feeding them. It comes down to making sure their health insurance is good, making sure people can work remotely, making sure that – [overtalk] CASEY: Higher levels of Swiss cheese on that. They are various levels. KAT: Yeah, the levels of Swiss cheese. A lot of stuff cascades from lunch interviews, making sure that if you do them at all, that you're really flexible about them. JOHN: Yeah. I can definitely relate to the being able to work from home, which I've done for the last decade, or more, has been huge for being able to have a solid control of my diet. Because it's really easy to have all the right things around for lunch rather than oh, I've only got half an hour, I can run out to the sub shop and I'll just deal with the consequences. Because that's what's nearby versus, or trying to bring food into the office and keep it in the fridge, or the free – that's a whole mess. So just like you said, good health insurance, working from home, these are things that allow for all sorts of different disabilities to be taken care of so well that you don't – that's the base, that's table stakes to formatting kind of inclusion. KAT: Exactly, exactly. CASEY: Yeah. KAT: Exactly. Yeah, and I think what sometimes gets missed is that even there are other things that I need to – the ability to just sometimes lay down, the ability to be close to a bathroom, and things that are not food related, but definitely are my reality. [laughs] CASEY: And companies went out, too. By accommodating you, they get all of your expertise and skills and puns. In exchange for flexibility, they get puns. KAT: [laughs] And I still make puns about gluten, wheat, rye, and barley even though I can I eat them anymore. That will never go away. CASEY: They just keep rising. KAT: Wheat for it. Wait for it. [laughter] CASEY: Ding! KAT: That's just my wry sense of humor. CASEY: All right. We're getting near end of time for today. This point, let's talk about reflections and plugs. JOHN: I can go first. I think the thing that's definitely sticking with me is thinking about the internal teams relating to other internal teams at a company as a marketing issue. Security is obviously one where you need to have that relationship with pretty much every team. But I'm thinking all sorts of all the way around development, DevOps, tech QA. Everyone can think this way and probably gain something from it as a what are we presenting to the rest of the company, what is our interface, and how do we bring more things to it such that people like working with our interface a lot so that we have great relationships with the rest of the team? I think I'm going to keep thinking about that for a while. CASEY: I'll share a reflection. I liked noticing that those phish emails can cause harm to people—they can feel bad and then make them less receptive. I've always been a fan of them overall. But thinking about that impact, I might have even been the one to say that, but it was still surprising to me when that came out of my mouth. Say, oh yeah, it hurts people in a way, too. We don't have to have that painful experience to teach people. It can be done in a safer environment. I wonder what else we can do for training of things like that to make it more positive and less negative. I'm going to be thinking on that. KAT: Yeah. And I wrote down AIDA. Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action. Did I get that right? CASEY: Yeah. KAT: I'm definitely going to look into that. I think that's a great model for education of all kinds. CASEY: Yeah. If you want to go even deeper, there's like 6 and 7 tier models on the Wikipedia page links to a bunch of them. That's just the most common. KAT: Awesome. CASEY: For plugs, I just want to plug some homework for you all. Everyone listening, there's this Unconscious Bias Training That Works article that I've mentioned twice now. I hope you get to read that. And I guess, the AIDA – It'll be in the show notes for sure. And then the Wikipedia page for AIDA marketing just so you have a spot to look it up, if you forget about it. Try to apply that to situations, that's your homework. KAT: I think something I plugged on Twitter quite a bit over the years and a lot when we were talking about the language that we use earlier, I'm a huge fan of the Responsible Communication Style Guide, which was put out by the Recompiler, which is a feminist activist hacker publication. So they've got guides on words to avoid, words to use instead for when talking about race, gender, class, health, disability status. It's written for a tech audience and I really like that as a resource for using inclusive language. JOHN: Yeah. It's great stuff. CASEY: I love it. All right, thanks so much for are coming on our show today, Kat. Special Guest: Kat Sweet.

In this episode, I talk about thinking outside the box.

As H.E. Luccock once said “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it”. Today's guest is a Professor of Physical Activity Education at Edge Hill University who has worked on research in schools to create effective solutions to children's inadequate physical activity levels with emphasis on the power of the collective vs. the individual. Stuart Fairclough has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, supervised 18 PhD students, and raised over £0.5 million in external grant funding.  Stuart has also co-edited the newly commissioned Routledge Handbook of Youth Physical Activity.  In today's conversation we discussed the use of the double diamond approach to optimise both divergent and convergent thinking when implementing change in school physical activity, how exercise intensity can play a role in cardiorespiratory fitness and the role the physical environment can play in opportunities for children to free play.  So, if you are looking at ways to implement change in children's physical activity within your community, school, or household then there is something in this conversation for you.  So, without further ado, please enjoy my chat with Professor Stuart Fairclough. Resources Stuart's website: Stuart Fairclough, PhD – Professor of Physical Activity Education Twitter: @PhysActivityEd Book recommendations – 1. Psychology for Physical Educators by Yves Vauden Avweele et al. 2. Routledge Handbook of Youth Physical Activity by Timothy Brusseau, Stuart Fairclough and David Lubans. Answer to my question on what would you put in a message in a bottle to promote physical activity in children  – “Appreciate what you have and use it for better well-being and every move counts” Once again thank you for taking the time to listen. If you enjoyed todays conversation, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes as well as sharing with a friend or colleague who you think would benefit from the episode. It's been great to hang out with you today and as always keep believing, moving, and growing!  Follow Dan: Twitter: Twitter.com/believemovegrow Instagram: Instagram.com/believemovegrow Track: Down the street — Vendredi [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/FU0IiZj3H2g Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/down-the-street

“Ultimately you never know what is going on in someone else's brain, you are struggling to understand what is going on in yours. So stop stopping yourself from taking action based on your fear of the opinion of others. ” That is just one of the many nuggets my guest Jocelyn "Brain Coach " Brady is the founder & CEO, Scribe Story Studios shares on today's episode. Jocelyn is a certified Brain Coach (from the NeuroLeadership Institute), she helps her clients tap the full potential of that ?? magic.  She is a former strategist & storyteller for multibillion-dollar global brands and has a few extra tricks to help you jostle up fresh ideas and take big, bold leaps so so you create the most awesome sh*t of your life.  Connect with Jocelyn Website  LinkedIn Youtube Instagram Facebook Some topics we cover in this episode: Chaos being a catalyst for change Getting  "quit" from her job on her birthday Your brain projecting the future based on the past Convergent v Divergent Thinking  Rewiring your brain The science behind why it is important you clap for yourself and celebrate small wins Imagining people as a penguin  Coaching  Connect with me Website: https://mindsetshift.co.uk/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/sopeagbelusi/ LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sopeagbelusi/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sope_Agbelusi Email: hello@mindsetshift.co.uk  --- Have a question, comment or a topic you want to be discussed? Send me a voice message: https://mindsetshift.co.uk/#ask-me-anything

Welcome to episode 14 of the Make it Matter Podcast – today's podcast gets "in tents" as we talk about the business principles that can be derived from a little time in the wild. What could roughing in nature possibly teach you about business? You might be surprised – Hanju's been on the road lately, and what he's learned could make a huge difference in your company. "All I need to know about business I learned from camping." What tools for your work can you actually find outside of the office? Point #1: "Be prepared" Preparation is harder than you think. The time to trick out the van, the sink, the packing, the food, the cleanup. I thought it would be peaceful but we were actually busy non-stop. The lesson: expect it to be tough. (Worst thought you can have: "this is going to be easy." Totally counterproductive thinking.) You're not doing something wrong just because it's hard. Point #2: "Be pioneering" Always ready for the adventure. Makes work fun and new, and helps you solve problems with a fresh perspective. (Divergent Thinking). The lesson? "Life finds a way." Point #3: "Be present" - Never miss a sunset. We really do think that getting out there, away from the daily norm, definitely gives you a new perspective. And I really like how Bru broke it down. Be Prepared, Be Pioneering and Be present. The 3P's. What a great lesson for all of us. And even those of us that just do not camp…and don't have any desire to. That's okay. No need to as long as you find your own way to step out and learn to see things a bit differently. It will bring more clarity, creativity, and even courage to shift from the grind. Those are my 3 C's. I was inspired to come up with my own 3 C's. Well, thanks for listening, everyone, and you know what? We would love to hear from you, so, just leave us a comment on the iTunes review or contact us directly by going to https://bosmediagroup.com/sayhello We added a record button on there so you can send us by voice, a question, a comment, or a shoutout, whatever you want. We might even play it on this podcast. So, in the meantime, thank you so much for listening, and remember to always MAKE IT MATTER.  Bye for now.

Linear thinking is the common, default mode when we work on projects and tackle problems. This includes making specific plans and listing action steps. It keeps us organized and on track. But linear thinking is not effective in addressing adaptive challenges with uncertain outcomes. To get unstuck and solve complex problems, you could blend Divergent Thinking and Convergent Thinking. This leads to creative problem solving, where you generate new, original ideas that are meaningful, valuable and practical. In 1956, American psychologist J.P. Guilford coined the terms Divergent Thinking and Convergent Thinking to describe two cognitive approaches to tackle problems and find innovative solutions. The interplay between these two contrasting styles of mental processing leads to optimal performance. Divergent thinking asks, “Why not?” Convergent thinking asks, “Why?” Divergent thinking generates different ideas and multiple solutions. You begin with a prompt and generate many solutions. Although the process is structured, you stay open-minded and open-ended as you brainstorm ideas and explore possibilities. There's no analysis, no judgment, and no arguments being made.Convergent thinking narrows down multiple ideas into a single solution.  You begin with information and converge around a solution that works best. You organize your ideas, evaluate and analyze them, weigh the pros and cons, and make decisions. In episode 12 of The Incrementalist podcast, you will discover:1) The four steps in JP Guilford's model of creative thinking Define the problem you wish to solve Apply Divergent Thinking to spark ideas and create choices Use Convergent Thinking to evaluate ideas and make choices Finalize the solution and prepare to implement it 2) Why you need to keep the two modes of thinking separate from each other3) How to use Nominal Group Technique (NGT) for brainstorming sessions4) Creativity tactics to generate ideas and innovation  Work under a lofty ceiling Make noise Dim the lights Get a good night's sleep Take a nap Do yoga. Or meditate 5) Two examples of Divergent Thinking and Convergent Thinking working together to create a successful service or product: Twitter (social medial platform) and 3M's Post-it® Note (sticky note). Resources cited: Anne Manning, Divergent vs. Convergent Thinking: How to Strike a Balance (May 10, 2016, Harvard Extension School, Professional Development Blog) Donald M. Rattner, My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation Dyan Williams, Mind Mapping: A Mental Tool for Generating Ideas and Solving Problems, ABA Law Practice Today Music by:Sebastian Brian MehrStay creative & logical,Dyan WilliamsCheck out the book: The Incrementalist, A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small StepsVisit website: www.dyanwilliams.comSubscribe to productivity e-newsletter

I wanted to know what Divergent thinking was and how it applies to an overall positive outlook. I did a virtual meet with Jona A. Wright, Ed. D. after a year of playing LinkedIn tag. Join us!

In Mark Batterson’s book, “Whisper,” he references a study on “divergent thinking.” Divergent thinking is “the ability to generate creative ideas by exploring possible solutions.” A Head Start study tested children on their divergent thinking ability. Ninety-eight percent of children ages three to five “scored in the genius category for divergent thinking.” Ten years later, [...]

List of books every Entrepreneur should read: https://linktr.ee/everyday101 Stay Tuned and Happy Listening. If you are confused about your career, if you don't know what to do, if you have a lot of interests but don't know which one to pursue or if you want a supportive guiding system to achieve your Career Goals, then I am always available to help you out. You can book a Career Coaching session with me here: https://calendly.com/karanphougat Follow me on Instagram to learn something new every day and to send me your career queries: https://www.instagram.com/karan_phougat/

The most important tool that helps solve riddles is divergent thinking. This form of thinking demands that you survey and analyze all possible solutions to any given problem. In its opposite, convergent (or critical) thinking, we generally operate within a set of rules and use them to work our way to arrive at answers. However, in divergent thinking, the rules are immaterial, and we must explore any and all relevant solutions. Other important tools include lateral thinking, which involves studying how we infer something from information given to us. Systems thinking calls on you to look at the bigger picture, namely how components of any idea or solution fit with one another to form a coherent whole. Lastly, inspirational thinking requires you to gain insight from some source, like a peak experience or an altered state of consciousness. This type of thinking lets our unconscious mind solve problems for us, allowing our conscious selves to benefit from it. Hear it here - https://bit.ly/usingriddles Show notes and/or episode transcripts are available at https://bit.ly/social-skills-shownotes Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. emotional and social intelligence. Learn more or get a free mini-book on conversation tactics at https://bit.ly/pkconsulting For narration information visit Russell Newton at https://bit.ly/VoW-home For production information visit Newton Media Group LLC at https://bit.ly/newtonmg #convergent #creativity #critical #deduction #evaluate #induction #inference #insight #PatrickKing #PatrickKingConsulting #SocialSkillsCoaching #riddle #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #LearntoThinkUsingRiddles

Divergent thinking

Analytical reasoning and divergent thinking could be blended with specific inputs on talent enrichment process in order to make talent acceleration feasible. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mangalaprathaban-muralidh/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mangalaprathaban-muralidh/support

Here it is! We're doing another discussion episode in our artist mini-series and this time we're talking about...drugs. Substance use and abuse are often thought of as being a normal part of the artist community. We're here to ask questions like: how do can drugs affect our creativity and productivity? What are the pros and cons of drug use? What are the differences between substance use, abuse, and addiction? This week we really dive into it so get ready for an episode that is deep, dark, and dense.   Special thanks to Jeannie Milan for joining us!   Twitter/Insta: @artwelikepod Email us at artwelikepod@gmail.com!   Some sources: [Substance Use and Substance Use Disorder by Industry] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK343542/ [Creativity, Madness, and Drugs] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/creativity-madness-and-drugs/ [National Institute on Drug Abuse] https://www.drugabuse.gov [Psilocybin, psychological distress, and suicidality] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721603/ [Psychedelics and Mental Health: A Population Study] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747247/ [Do drugs make people more creative?] https://www.psypost.org/2018/01/drugs-make-people-creative-50524 [Creativity and Psychoactive Substance Use: A Systematic Review] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-016-9709-8  [Cannabis and creativity: highly potent cannabis impairs divergent thinking in regular cannabis users.] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25288512 [Effects of Marijuana Use on Divergent Thinking] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15326934CRJ1334_18?journalCode=hcrj20&&#preview  [The effects of microdose LSD on time perception: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00213-018-5119-x [Microdosing Psychedelics: Personality, mental health, and creativity differences in microdosers] https://theconversation.com/microdosers-of-lsd-and-magic-mushrooms-are-wiser-and-more-creative-101302 https://psyarxiv.com/gk4jd/ [Psychedelic Agents in Creative Problem-Solving: A Pilot Study] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1966.19.1.211 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelics_in_problem-solving_experiment [LSD and Creativity] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02791072.1989.10472150

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of VR in Education.  In today’s episode, I want to talk about the efficacy of structured (convergent) vs unstructured (divergent) learning experiences. 

Chris Sanders and Stef Rand discuss qualitative research they conducted on how to use divergent or convergent thinking for improving the quality of your analysis.Twitter Handles: @ChrisSanders88 | @techieStef | @SecHubb | @SANSDefenseAll Blueprint Podcast Episodes: sans.org/blueprint-podcast

In this episode we discuss mindfulness, meditation and how to use both to improve your work day. We also talk about cognitive approaches to thought, and why convergent and divergent thinking are important for everyone, especially developers. We talk about how to plan time for yourself each day, creating a "don't do list", and how to find your flow state. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A term coined in 1956 by psychologist J.P. Guilford, divergent thinking has been found to improve mood and task performance. And it's even more important than IQ in determining your ability to be creative. But what is it? And how do I do it? We'll cover strategies and exercises you can use anywhere to start building your divergent thinking muscle.

This is podcast 142 and it’s an interview with Ryan Rawson, a self described divergent thinker, who is now working at home due to our current pandemic. We talked about the difficulties of divergent thinking and also the benefits of it, and how that affects having to work at home. The Organize Your Life podcast is about time management, productivity, procrastination, decluttering, organizing, self management and more. In each episode I talk about challenges and problems in those areas and give you great ideas on how to overcome them. I offer practical suggestions. I talk about why we humans behave the way we do and how you can develop your own “hacks” to outsmart yourself. Please leave a rating or review if you like the show! Visit me at http://www.facebook.com/ClutterCoachClaire, Twitter http://twitter.com/ClaireTompkins, and on my website, www.cluttercoach.net

In this episode of the Stigma Podcast, I had a chance to speak with Mandy Froehlich.  Mandy is an educator, and personally, opens with us about overcoming PTSD, depression, and anxiety.  Mandy is an experienced educator who leverages her professional experience, and her passion for learning, to teach, train, and inspire other teachers to renew their excitement for teaching, and re-engage with their profession in an innovative way. Currently, she spends her time consulting school districts and post-secondary institutions on effective use of technology to support teaching, mental health support for educators, and how to create organizational change within educational institutions. Mandy has published a couple of books.  The first was titled “The Fire Within: Lessons from defeat that have ignited a passion for learning” – where she discusses the idea of mental health awareness within schools. Her most recent book, titled, “Divergent EDU” is based on an organizational structure concept called “Hierarchy of Needs for Innovation and Divergent Thinking” which was developed to support teachers in innovative and divergent thinking. Mandy is also the host of a podcast, called “Teacher’s Aid” – which focuses on providing social and emotional support for the very personal challenges that teachers face. You can connect with Mandy and learn more about her work here: Her Website, Her Twitter, LinkedIn, Teacher’s Aid Podcast HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE DISCUSSED: Teacher burnout – We talked a bit about how she became a teacher, and how over time she struggled to stay motivated.  This led to a conversation broadly on teacher burnout and why teachers disengage, burnout, have a high attrition rate, etc.  This impacts the children and we dig into why on this podcast. The role of the school, teacher, and parent in acknowledging a child’s mental health issues –  We talked about this concept that as parents have begun to work more, with both parents having full-time jobs, the school has been forced to become a de facto parent for 7-8 hours a day.  We discussed what role the school, the teachers, and the children themselves play in observing and helping those who have mental health needs within the school system. Should teachers be talking about their own mental health concerns?  It depends on who they are talking to.  Although teachers should be able to be vulnerable with their students, oversharing can be bad.  It’s ok to admit when you may be dealing with something difficult.  Kids need to know they are not alone.  It’s also ok for teachers to admit their struggles to other teachers.  In a lot of ways, teachers are the only ones who really understand other teachers.  What will mental health help look like inside of a school? Some schools are implementing social and emotional learning as well as mindfulness into regular curriculum.  The schools that are doing it well are integrating these things into regular content, so kids are learning to self-regulate and read at the same time, for example. What if the parent or teacher isn’t pulling their weight?  This is very common.  It’s more common than everyone being on the same page.  Sometimes the MH issues are caused at home.  Not all MH issues come from the parents, there are other things that cause MH issues and trauma, but sometimes it does come from something going on at home.  Alcoholic parents, abusive parents, etc. This makes it much more difficult for the educator.  Any headway the schools can make is erased by the child going home at night or over the summer. We talked at length about this. Peer to peer support systems within schools – and at what age can it work?  We talked about peer to peer support networks within schools and how effective they can or can’t be.  We discussed at what ages it can work or makes sense to try.  We talked about how peer to peer solutions are good but are only one part of a bigger implementation of solutions.  We find that many kids have a stronger connection with their peers than adults, and when you consider that teachers have to report a lot of what they hear kids talking about, it is safer for kids to talk to their peers (and better than not talking at all).  On the topic of how early is too early, she says she has seen peer to peer networks work as early as 2nd grade (with adult monitoring and facilitation of course). We talked about stigma and compared the way children and adults stigmatize mental health issues.  Based on our conversation, it appears that children are less likely to stigmatize themselves or others and are more open to talking about their problems than many adults.  However, at younger ages, they don’t have the coping skills to deal with the issues that come up so they have to be in the right environment with the right oversight to have these conversations. Connect with the Stigma Podcast in the following ways: Website, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Connect with host Stephen Hays here: Stephen Hays Personal Website, Twitter, LinkedIn,  What If Ventures (Mental Health Venture Fund)

The way we approach a problem is determined by our personality and even the problem in hand. We can think in a Divergent or Convergent manner, meaning either we can think about all the ways through which we can solve that problem or we can just choose one way and try solving the problem. However, doing both at the same time can lead to plateauing. Find us on Youtube: www.youtube.com/psychologyinhindi

On episode 7, Alen and Leon speak with the chief-editor of Third Factor magazine, and former CIA analyst, Jessie Mannisto about the necessity and consequences of divergent thinking, the significance of non-conformity in politics, and how we can use the ideas behind the concept of positive disintegration to foster unity in our communities. Leon Garber is a philosophical writer, contemplating and elucidating the deep recesses of man's soul. He is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor/Psychotherapist — specializing in Existential Psychotherapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, and Trauma Therapy — and manages a blog exploring issues of death, self-esteem, love, freedom, life-meaning, and mental health/mental illness, from both empirical and personal viewpoints. Alen D. Ulman is a content creator and life long auto-didact. Alen manages the page Ego Ends Now which is a growing community for expanding consciousness with vital information about science, medicine, self actualization, philosophy, psychology and methods to overcome identification with compulsive thought. The purpose of Ego Ends Now is to make sure to give everyone in it's community every tool available to add levity in their own lives, making it a very real possibility for them to create a life of their own design, and help impact the world and our global community positively. Find us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/seize_podcast O4L: https://o4lonlinenetwork.com/seizethemoment Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seizethemomentpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SeizeTheMomentPodcast/ We are also everywhere podcasts are available!

Divergent thinking is the act of coming up with as many ideas or options as possible, and in creativity studies, divergent thinking gets a lot of love because it's relatively easy to measure. Convergent thinking is the ability to come together and find the "ONE" answer for a given problem. Equally important for creativity but less simple to measure. You can exercise your divergent ad convergent thinking muscles with a quick tip. Make a list of 10 to 15 things every day and Rank the list. Your personal collections of lists can be work-related or completely personal it's the act of making then ranking that exercises this muscle and helps boost your creativity.

Today I discuss the importance of creativity in instructional design and specifically the pillar of creativity that is Convergent and Divergent thinking. And I end with a tip on how you can boost your own creativity by exercising the Convergent/Divergent Thinking Muscle.

Emily Harman, host of Onward Podcast, interviews Dr. Virginia LeBlanc, founder and Owner-Operator of Defining Paths, author, speaker, singer, Divergent Thinking Coach, and consultant. Dr. LeBlanc shares coping with feelings of abandonment and how she came to love the skin she is in. She shares how she became an author and offers advice about addressing pain points and how to employ divergent thinking to live the life you were meant to live.   Episode Highlights:  Emily Harman introduces Dr. Virginia LeBlanc. Dr. LeBlanc explains the meaning behind her book cover. What is divergent thinking?  Dr. LeBlanc explains how she applied divergent thinking at a key point in her life and got a job she wanted, enabling her to live close to her ailing father. What is the concept behind Dr. LeBlanc’s book Love the Skin YOUR’E In: How to Conquer Life Through Divergent Thinking? Dr. LeBlanc shares how she transformed her life, course corrected and re-defined herself at key times in her life. Dr. LeBlanc shares her first experience with racism. Dr. LeBlanc is an opera and classical singer and she sings part of a song for us!  What were the circumstances that led Dr. LeBlanc to write a book?  Dr. Leblanc shares a time when she stepped out of her comfort zone and followed her gut instinct.   Dr. LeBlanc advises us that things don’t have to be perfect. Just do everything with your own personal excellence.    3 Key Points: You can break free from the chains of social expectations, and discard messaging about who you should be to live a more fulfilling and vibrant life. You can find and maintain your individuality in a society that demands conformity.    We all can love the skin we are in!   Tweetable Quotes: “A lot of times we are our own opponent. We are in the boxing arena of life, fighting with our mindset, fighting with social conditioning.” – Dr. Virginia LeBlanc “The divergent thinking piece is a combination of developing your mindset, developing your brain, your left and your right brain, and learning to integrate the two for problem solutions.” – Dr. Virginia LeBlanc “I was the all American. I was the all American everything but I was crying out inside. And you would have never known it!” – Dr. Virginia LeBlanc   Resources Mentioned:Business: http://definingpaths.info Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/definingpaths/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drleblanc Instagram: @authordrleblanc Twitter: @drleblanconline   Dr. Virginia LeBlanc Author, Love the Skin YOU’RE In: How to Conquer Life Through Divergent Thinking Order your copy on Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/y9gcyg6n For anyone who has struggled to find and maintain their individuality in a society that demands conformity, Love the Skin YOU’RE In offers a captivating, motivating, and empowering message in a fresh new way: break free from the chains of social expectations, and discard messaging about who you should be to live a more fulfilling and vibrant life.   https://www.amazon.com/Word-Day-Divergent-Souls-encouragement/dp/099905323X/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=virginia+leblanc&qid=1560652549&s=gateway&sr=8-4 Affectionately known as Words for the Divergent Soul, this short 30-day meditation book is the first of four and contains a daily word for the divergent soul, based on the Amazon Best Seller Love the Skin YOU’RE In: How to Conquer Life through Divergent Thinking. You will find 30 days of encouragement to follow your own path and live the life you were meant to live, even if it’s not the path most traveled. https://emilyharman.com https://www.facebook.com/Onward-Podcast https://www.instagram.com/onwardpodcast https://twitter.com/OnwardPodcast https://www.soulpajamas.com/home https://www.podcastpress.io/

Divergent Thinking & Convergent Thinking 2 โหมดคิดสำคัญ ที่ใช้ในการค้นหา ผลิตไอเดีย เพื่อแก้ปัญหาและสร้างสรรค์สิ่งใหม่ ลองรับฟังกันครับ

Could something as simple as a daily walk increase your creativity and capacity for divergent thinking? That is the question that we explore on this episode, along with a life experiment to test this out for yourself.

Welcome back to the first podcast of 2019 with a very special guest Dimitri Tessier. I met Dimitri 3 years ago when I was an intern for P&W and the power of both the internet & this podcast has led us once again back in to contact. After grinding away at his 9-5, Dimitri spends most of his physical and mental bandwith in pursuing his two biggest passions - hip-hop & basketball. Join me and my new friend talk for an hour about being a college athlete, producing your own content, and how to navigate this slippery world amonst other topics. He is a very articulate, driven guy who certainly motivates me so hope you get something out of this conversation. Bonus: extended intro where I talk about my 10 life goals for this year and how I am fairing so far. Links to Instagram/ MEECH music page: @meech-sosa-943688811 @meech_bold Check us out now on the iTunes podcast app for more content to be pumped out weekly once again. If you would like to write in to the official email account of Divergent Thinking: divergentthinking2016@gmail.com

Episode 56 is an extra special episode where my buddy and dedicated podcast listener Kyle Fast joined me for a pre-holiday conversation to catch up. Kyle is a mutual friend that I met just over a year that works on, sails, and navigates large sailboats for people all over the world. Fresh off a plane from a year in Europe (Germany & Italy), Kyle came by to talk about what his day-to-day life is like, the places he has been fortunate enough to see, and what it truly is like to live, work, and sleep on a ship. Check us out now on the iTunes podcast app for more content to be pumped out weekly once again. If you would like to write in to the official email account of Divergent Thinking: divergentthinking2016@gmail.com

These four practices will have you master in mind tricks in no time: 1.) Being creativity; 2.) Critical Thinking: specifically Divergent Thinking skills; 3.) Learn all the best ways in which you learn best; 4.) Commit to the full ride scholarship of life, your life! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/phoenix-nsaid/support

Martin O’Neill, is the Senior Executive for Engine Technology at GE Transportation. Martin joins Jim and Jan in a discussion about innovation and leadership, and how they’re connected and intertwined. Listen in to learn more about how Martin balances the divergence of  structure and organization with experimentation and expansion.   Key Takeaways [6:12] When you are working with large scale industrial product development, there is typically a type of mindset that has been around for years that has little to do with leadership. Martin and his team have shifted to different practices to pursue an innovation agenda. [13:56] Martin manages the collaboration of others all around the globe. He overcomes challenges of different time zones and work times by clearly laying out what is expected and when for every member. Structure is also very important, and they have operating reviews on a strict and consistent schedule. He spends time up front explaining clearly what is expected. [20:56] Not only is Martin dealing with the different cultures due to geographic span, but the culture within the engineers is something he makes sure is structured and organized. [28:36] Martin really drives home the point of self informing and continuous learning to the new engineers. [32:52] Martin is not afraid to celebrate the failures of projects they need to kill and views it as a learning lesson and way to veer off stagnation. [35:53] The rally call should always be on customer outcome, customer value and business value proposition. [36:24] Engineers used to be much more autonomous, but now there is a shift away from traditional thinking and a move towards horizontal work and collaboration.   Website: www.getransportation.com LinkedIn: GE Transportation Twitter: @GETRANSPORT Facebook: GE TRANSPORTATION Quotable Quotes “You have to be bold.”   “A little bit of personality goes a long way.”   “Allow people some self governance and a way to correct themself.”   Correct Thyself   “Kill the stuff that isn’t so important.”   “You have duty as a leader to fish out what’s really not adding value and put it down publicly, humanely and move on.”   “True innovations come from when you start to work horizontally.”   Bio   Martin O’Neill has worked in transportation, aviation, marine propulsion and energy segments for over 20 years; most recently with General Electric. Martin has worked in transportation, aviation, marine propulsion and energy segments for over 20 years; most recently with General Electric. Trained originally as an aeronautical engineer & program manager in the UK, he has worked in global product and technology leadership roles with nuclear, gas turbines, diesel engines & controls systems. In his current role as Senior Executive – Engine Technology at GE Transportation he leads a team of product managers, engineers & technologists to develop & sustain diesel engine platforms in rail & marine markets.   Martin enjoys working with creative people to bring solutions to customers through applied technology & business operations – increasingly through the marriage of digital, data, software & engineering methods. He values cultural & thought diversity together with engaging debate, has been resident in Chicago since 2013 with his wife and two children, and is keen to engage with the Chicago business & scientific community.

In this episode we are discussing the power of convergent and divergent thinking… these are strategies that make up the foundation of design thinking - a human-centered problem solving process quickly making it into every corner of the corporate world. Understanding the difference between convergent and divergent thinking, and when you use each, will allow you to understand and apply design thinking effectively.

Our culture loves telling the story of one man taking on the world, working hard to do everything for himself. We build our movies and our myths around this archetype, and then unconsciously model it in our own lives. Useful as this type of path is, and even a necessary starting step, what comes next in the heroic journey? The lone warrior must eventually learn how to deal with other people. He must form a tribe of ideas and perspectives that complement his own. He must be humble enough to know that however capable he is on his own, he will be more capable with the help of others. This humility only comes after he has earned healthy pride. Parker Harris runs Junto Global, a networking organization for high-performing, high-ambition entrepreneurs dedicated to creating massive change in their lives and the world. Inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s meetings about 12 of his most respected and intelligent peers, Junto aims to enable individuals to act beyond their solo potential. This is a step that many capable individuals never reach in their development. Education was once about helping people figure who they are, what they care about, and how to think about life. Today, it primarily serves to get the members of a society to act in a way that is considered in line with cultural and social values. We no longer need centralized schooling models to learn basic survival skills, as survival is now more nuanced and varied than any single path could ever adequately cover. Foremost, children need to learn how to communicate harmoniously and interact with one another. When young people first realize that they have never made their own choices, they move into an individualist, “me vs. the world”, state of mind to find themselves in solitude on their own personal journey. They perceive collective thinking as the enemy. Mental traumas are often the result of thinking we are something other than what we are. Accurate thinking is the solution to this needless suffering. Exceptional people are prone to numbing themselves to the problems of society because they are hypersensitive to chaos and suffering. If they don’t learn to focus on the problems and passions that are most important to them, they might waste their lives and suffer needlessly until they die. Our lives are determined by the quality of the questions we ask and the problems we attempts to solve. You cannot know yourself completely if you come from either end of the suffering spectrum: abundance of everything or lack of anything. You need to see how you act under both conditions to see what you are capable of, and then comfortably navigate throughout the middle. Your ability to experience deep suffering directly affects your ability to experience deep joy and fulfillment. You are more grounded in your pursuits when you have suffered, more dedicated, and more focused. You appreciate every win. Delayed gratification is a product of maturity. Mature, well-tested people can look far into the future with their actions and go through tough trials that eventually lead to greater reward. Immature people have no tolerance for such trials. The ability to accomplish what you want is dependent on first having the right experiences, acquiring the right tools, and meeting the right people.   “It’s not what you don’t know that’s going to hurt you. It’s what you know that isn’t so.” Mark Twain     Things mentioned: Junto Global: http://getstarted.juntoglobal.com/ UCWG 031: Do You Dare To Follow Your Hero’s Journey to Find Self-Actualization? Life Purpose As The Highest Priority With Leo Gura of Actualized.org - https://gregorydiehl.net/ucwg-031-heros-journey-self-actualization-life-purpose-highest-priority-leo-gura-actualized-org/ UCWG 029: How do Neuroatypicals Function in an Ordinary Society? Low Latent Inhibition, Divergent Thinking, and the Problem of Social Integration. - https://gregorydiehl.net/ucwg-029-natalie-marsh-neuroatypicals-society-low-latent-inhibition-lli-divergent-thinking-social-integration/

Sarika and Anne explain the pedagogical power of podcasting at the 2017 College Association for Language and Literacy Conference (https://www.callontario.org/). This year's theme was "Divergent Thinking in the College Communications Classroom." In this live podcast recording, we share how podcasting in the classroom directly impacts students' discourse skills, writing and research skills, and collaboration skills. You can access our SWAY presentation here: https://sway.com/qxJdHk3ujolrnnUU?ref=Link&loc=mysways You can also learn more about the Opinion app here: http://www.opinionpodcasting.com/ Discourse with us! https://twitter.com/annesong_ https://twitter.com/sarikarr We'd like to say a warm thank you to George Brown College for all your support and to CALL for giving us the opportunity to share our project! Some music for this episode is from Kai Engel ("Summer Days") who is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License: https://www.jamendo.com/artist/437857/kai-engel More music for this episode is from Colaars ("To the Roofs") who is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License: https://www.jamendo.com/artist/423766/colaars We also feature music from Mickey Blue who is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License: https://www.jamendo.com/artist/493543/mickey-blue Lastly, we use music from Life After Dance ("Phonosophie") who is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License: https://www.jamendo.com/artist/468484/life-after-dance

In the final episode of a 4 part conversation with Erika Lenz, Scrum Master, former poet, evolutionary biologist, and tutor, we discuss what makes Erika unique, comfort with the creative process, the prevalence of mental illness in the arts, grounding others in difficult situations, the power of divergent thinking, building bridges, social dancing, choreography, and floorcraft, helping others to pivot in order to change the behavior of a team, the benefits of adding emotional content in tech environments, the benefits in valuing everyone, and kinesthetic intelligence.

#SSPCreate As a follow-up to the last show, I discuss some strategies I have been using more regularly in the last few months to encourage different thinking. Covered: - Osborn's Model Reviewed: 1. Orientation: pointing up the problem (STEP 1, PART 1) 2. Preparation: gathering pertinent data (STEP 1, PART 2) 3. Analysis: breaking down the relevant material (STEP 2, PART 1) 4. Ideation: piling up alternatives by way of ideas (STEP 2, PART 2) 5. Incubation: letting up, to invite illumination - added 6. Synthesis: putting the pieces together (STEP 3, PART 1) 7. Evaluation: judging the resulting ideas (STEP 3, PART 2) - Set the right conditions: (1) remove deadline pressure if possible, accept and embrace failure - For Incubation: (2) break routines, (3) find an adventure, (4) do nothing - For Ideation: (5) read strange things for no reason, (6) list your options, (7) invent problems to solve Look Closer: Divergent Thinking The Art of Thought: A Pioneering 1926 Model of the Four Stages of Creativity A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939 Osborn: Creative Problem-Solving Process The Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process Please Support School Sucks Our Amazon Wish List Donate With Bitcoin Or Join the A/V Club Your continued support keeps the show going and growing, which keeps us at the top of the options for education podcasts and leads to new people discovering this message. This subscription also grants you access to the A/V Club, a bonus content section with 200+ hours of exclusive audio and video. If you are a regular consumer of our media, please consider making a monthly commitment by selecting the best option for you... Join the A/V Club! $6.00/Month Join the A/V Club! $9.00/Month Join the A/V Club! $12/Month