If our collections of ideas, thoughts, and memories are a web of data, thinking can be imagined as the process of *navigating* that web. The way we navigate depends on the purpose: - **convergent**, or solution-oriented, thinking involves finding a clear path through our ideas to address a given problem, or - **divergent**, or creativity-oriented, thinking involves more free exploration with the goal of finding associations between seemingly unrelated ideas. Good thinking is effective navigation and good *ideas* are interesting paths through your knowledge. A solid grasp of knowledge *navigation* is also important for writing since [[writing is turning your networked thought into a cohesive narrative]]. This is a more open-ended approach to [[{5.1a} idea sex]] or combinational creativity – instead of explicitly looking at creative thought as a *combination* of ideas, this looks at creative thought as the process of finding *connections*. >[!note] note [[2024-05-25]] >still trying to figure out [[the limits of pkm language|definitions]] here… the way i think about networked thought goes beyond a knowledge graph of notes, but that seems like the most succinct way to describe it for now.