20
Feb
2026
Caffeine discourages divergent thinking and promotes convergent thinking.
And then they say that it's like anecdotal, but they say that caffeine, there's anecdotal evidence that it kind of, what is it, like discourages or, you know, whatever it does to your brain. You don't do as much divergent thinking. It's more like convergent. Where like if you need to get like a task, like, all right, I need to edit something. Caffeine's great. But if you're like, I need to come up with a story idea. There's like anecdotal evidence that says like people who are on caffeine report that it like messes up their ability to like just kind of like you know come up with like new or novel ideas.