FORWARD
Revolutions tend to pass through three phases . it will never work , it might work but it’s not worth doing and finally I told you this was a good idea 🙂 .
Innovation can often take us by surprise . It can take many forms, it can be a machine or it can be a new process or approach designed to multiply inputs . An innovation becomes a mega trend when it increases long term productivity improving sustainable long term outcomes. In mid 2025 AI is that megatrend .
In this century, in our lifetimes , spelling and number competence are going to be less and less important markers . The justification for screening for attention to detail is no longer valid when we have a machine looking over our shoulder for us . What we will need more visionaries , more big picture thinkers, more Einstein’s and more creators .We will need a workforce who are wired to discover , innovate and explore . We need to screen for imagination, connection, communication and exploration . We need to screen for a population who are comfortable with complexity and uncertainty . Innovation changes things !.
While a system designed to screen out all our original thinkers never made economic sense . Screening populations for weakness then feeding them back into the workforce as date inputters . The stakes have been raised . Assigning square pegs to round holes isn’t just counter productive it’s self defeating and growth destroying .
REFRENCES
For clinical populations we can highly recommend accessible texts by Thomas G West .Award winning author of In The Mind’s Eye and Thinking Like Einstein [dyslexia ] . Temple Grandin Thinking In Pictures [ high functioning autism / Asperger’s ]. Linda B Silverman author of Upside Down Brilliance [Adhd] and Doctor Helen Taylor
For general interest we can highly recommend . Carmin Gallo author of Talk Like Ted and the Presentation secrets of Steve Jobs . David Eagleman presenter and author of The Brain and Live wired .Super forecasting By Phillip Tetlock and Dan Gardner . Misbehaving By Richard Thaler Thinking. Fast and slow by Dany Kahneman and the coming wave by Mustafa Suleyman .
It is not processing capacity or presentation of output but quality of input that separates the clearest thinkers with the best ideasÂ