Years ago I took the Highlands Ability Battery and within it was an idea generation assessment. Of all my scores, that one was the lowest! I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD for 35 years. I found this revelation odd given the divergent thinking and my career as a graphic designer (a very good one).
This makes sense of that score! The HBA readout said it isn’t that I don’t generate ideas, it’s that my brain only lets the best ones surface. That’s intuition!
And, it rings true as I often have the right answer, but generally cannot explain how I arrived there.
Thank you for posting this. It will help practitioners prove why divergent thinkers have the validity to trust themselves.
Thank you for sharing this! I’ve often wondered why ADHD folks (including myself) can get lost in divergent thinking in normal circumstances, but simultaneously be very good at crisis problem solving. Insight and intuition rings true as the missing piece! I never thought to consider it as a valid type of convergent thinking. I thought convergent thinking was only the step by step analytical kind (which - ew, gross, boring). I’m reflecting too that when I make intuitive decisions, I tend to feel excited and good about them and when I make the step by step analytical kind (like for a big ticket purchase sometimes) the process is painful and I can never shake the doubt or feel satisfied in what I chose. This post opened up a lot of new thoughts and possibilities for me - thank you!
Years ago I took the Highlands Ability Battery and within it was an idea generation assessment. Of all my scores, that one was the lowest! I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD for 35 years. I found this revelation odd given the divergent thinking and my career as a graphic designer (a very good one).
This makes sense of that score! The HBA readout said it isn’t that I don’t generate ideas, it’s that my brain only lets the best ones surface. That’s intuition!
And, it rings true as I often have the right answer, but generally cannot explain how I arrived there.
Thank you for posting this. It will help practitioners prove why divergent thinkers have the validity to trust themselves.
Thank you for sharing this! I’ve often wondered why ADHD folks (including myself) can get lost in divergent thinking in normal circumstances, but simultaneously be very good at crisis problem solving. Insight and intuition rings true as the missing piece! I never thought to consider it as a valid type of convergent thinking. I thought convergent thinking was only the step by step analytical kind (which - ew, gross, boring). I’m reflecting too that when I make intuitive decisions, I tend to feel excited and good about them and when I make the step by step analytical kind (like for a big ticket purchase sometimes) the process is painful and I can never shake the doubt or feel satisfied in what I chose. This post opened up a lot of new thoughts and possibilities for me - thank you!
Love it. I am divergent and my husband is convergent. Together we one 😍
Fascinating! How are low, mid and high adhd traits categorized? Did the dissertation use an accepted method or definition for that?