The One Thing That Truly Motivates Creative Talent–And How To Foster It

Talent. Its the subject line of many an inbox message these days. All of us who belong to the great ecosystem of new talent development–universities, portfolio programs, thinktanks, agencies–and agency leaders, mentors, recruiters and talent managers, offer opinions about who we need now and ho…

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Thoroughly Conscious Ignorance: How the Power of Not-Knowing Drives Progress and Why Certainty Stymies the Evolution of Knowledge

by Maria Popova. “It’s a wonderful idea: thoroughly conscious ignorance.” “Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind,” I reflected in the first of my 7 life lessons from 7 years of Brain Pickings a notion hardly original and largely essential in life, yet one oh so difficult t…

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