Thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate where you're coming from -- and indeed engineers are wired to be critical and to eschew sloppiness because it is useful (indeed often crucial) in execution (as your anecdote bears out -- that has happened to me many times).
But that superpower, which is so instrumental for execution, seems to me to be simultaneously deleterious to creative enterprises. It is at best an incomplete superpower.
I would also say that the reverse is true. Artsy creative types who are gifted at divergent thinking, but not convergent, are typically weak at execution so their products never gain traction or do not actually work.
Creative endeavors are by nature "sloppy". Hence the need to withhold judgment and let an idea play out via a divergent phase, and then bring it back through the convergent phase.
It would seem to me that both rationals and creatives have blind spots, hence the usefulness of a 2-phase process.
But that superpower, which is so instrumental for execution, seems to me to be simultaneously deleterious to creative enterprises. It is at best an incomplete superpower.
I would also say that the reverse is true. Artsy creative types who are gifted at divergent thinking, but not convergent, are typically weak at execution so their products never gain traction or do not actually work.
Creative endeavors are by nature "sloppy". Hence the need to withhold judgment and let an idea play out via a divergent phase, and then bring it back through the convergent phase.
It would seem to me that both rationals and creatives have blind spots, hence the usefulness of a 2-phase process.