STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig explains the difference between convergent and divergent thinking, and identifies how the latter allows individuals to create an infinite number of answers to a problem. As a real world example, Seelig tells the story of the legendary one-word admission examination used by All Souls College at the University of Oxford. View more clips and share your comments at ecorner.stanford.edu

Tina Seelig, creativity, problems, problem solving, ideas, idea generation