Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

CHAPTER 13Productive Thinking Redux

It’s déjà vu all over again.Yogi Berra

The Productive Thinking Model is a framework that will help you think better, think more effectively, think more powerfully. It builds on the work of over 50 years of cognitive research. Productive thinking relies on the overarching principle of separation of thinking: separating and alternating divergent, creative thinking and convergent, critical thinking—in other words, making lists and making choices. The model has six steps, each with a specified outcome. It is comprehensive model rather than a collection of tools or techniques.

The six steps of the model are:

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