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• In my recent book Metaskills, I laid out five talents we’ll need to thrive in an age of increasing man-machine collaboration. These talents, which I’ve called metaskills, are feeling, or empathy and intuition; seeing, or systems thinking; dreaming, or applied imagination; making, or design talent; and learning, the ability to acquire new skills. No...
• Then what’s a genius? Here’s my working definition: A genius is any person who turns insight into innovation, and in the process changes our view of the world. In other words, it’s someone who takes creativity to the point of originality. The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said it best: “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a targ...
• Don’t jump into planning as soon as you’ve sighted a goal. Learn to be still and listen. Pay attention to the nagging voice. The uneasy stomach. The barely felt longing. Your subject may have something to tell you.  Resist the temptation to impose a cookie-cutter solution on an intriguing problem, or a groundbreaking solution on an insignificant pr...
• But when you’re trying to access your intuition, looking won’t help at all. You’ll need to feel.
• Feeling your way to a solution is like an athlete deciding his or her next move. It happens more in the body than the brain. It gives you direct access to your intuition so you can bypass the usual fears, distractions, default solutions…