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Jake • 3 cards
Intelligence means knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do.
—Jean Piaget
True intelligence manifests in the ability to navigate uncertainty and solve novel problems. When faced with unfamiliar situations, intelligent behavior involves:
• Recognizing patterns from past experiences
• Adapting existing knowledge to new contexts
• Developing creat
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Harvard Business Review • In Defense of Polymaths
Humans of exceptional versatility, who excel in multiple, seemingly unrelated fields. That’s the superficial definition. Put differently, polymaths are multi-dimensional minds that pursue optimal performance and self-actualisation in its most complete, rounded sense. Having such a mindset, they reject lifelong specialisation and instead tend to pur
... See moreWaqas Ahmed • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility
Commenting on Tetlock's thesis, Oxford neuroscientist Anders Sandberg reaffirmed, ‘the manager solves manageable problems, a leader solves unknown problems. The leader probably has to be a kind of polymath. I would be very worried about a hedgehog leader’. Indeed, one of the world's leading futurists Ray Kurzweil insists on the need for the leader
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