We're pioneering
a theory of human intelligence
that has been called “groundbreaking" (The US Army), "mind-blowing" (Malcolm Gladwell), and “life-changing”(Brené Brown).
 
Studies show our methods substantially increase creativity, innovation, resilience, and self-efficacy across populations as diverse as US Army Special Operations, elementary school students, and business leaders.
 
These are methods you can cultivate.
 

 
01.
Intuition
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What detail surprises you in this painting?
 
Hassan from Saguenay noticed that the canoe is moving. As he said, “It's an illusion of course, but what an effect!”
 
Once he pointed it out, I couldn't unsee it.
 
What story can you imagine to explain the canoe's motion?
 
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02.
Emotion
 
 
Do you feel world-weary and wise? 
 
The ending to Greene’s classic novel of love and obsession is designed to instill a deep sense of irony.
 
"I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate.”
Allusions to fatigue, loss, and love follow. 
You and I both know— without reading the novel—that it was never an account of hate. 
 
 

 
03.
Commonsense
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Swedish opera singer Johanna Maria Lind, or Jenny Lind, was born on this day in 1887.
 
How to Educate a Nation
 
Part I: The End
A celebrity endowment ensures Sweden's free schools will remain that way.
 
Part II: The Beginning
A housemaid overhears the illegitimate daughter of a poor schoolteacher singing to herself in her mother's empty classroom.
 
This prompt works best if you pause here and try to imagine the middle of this story— how could the daughter of an unmarried schoolteacher end up guaranteeing free education for an entire country?
 
Part III: The Middle
Being overheard singing to herself triggered a chain of fortunate events that led to Jenny joining the Royal Dramatic Training Academy —  at the tender age of 9. By the time Jenny was twenty, she was known known as the Swedish Nightingale and was the biggest singing sensation of the 19th Century.  Even Queen Victoria threw flowers at her feet!
 
PT Barnum took note of Lind's fame and offered her a tour of North America. Because of how dramatically her voice had changed her own life, Jenny knew her power as an artist. She also knew Barnum saw her as a moneymaker and needed her artistry to elevate his showman reputation. Jenny used Barnum's interest to her advantage— negotiating an unheard of fixed fee of $1,000 dollar a night for 93 shows. Barnum had to mortgage his possessions to get the show on the road, but the tour was a huge success, grossing the equivalent of more than 12 million dollars in today's money. All proceeds went to Lind's charitable efforts, mainly to endow Sweden's free schools. 
 
Jenny responded as dramatically to the world as the world had responded to her, and in scale. The little girl with the big voice ensured that all her nation's children had the chance to be in the classroom — where the story of their own life might begin.  
 

 
What did you just do?
 
These prompts help you:
— identify emerging possibilities.
— develop your true EQ (hint: it's knowing what you feel, not deducing what someone else does).
— boost your commonsense so you get better at matching your course of action to the degree of volatility in your environment. 
 
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Until next time, 
Sarah & Angus
 
 
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