From the course: Developing a Critical Thinking Mindset
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Pursuing mental agility
From the course: Developing a Critical Thinking Mindset
Pursuing mental agility
- Do you know someone who always seems to understand things quickly and has relevant stories to relate? A beautiful sign of mental agility. Mental agility is the ability to think, understand, and integrate ideas quickly, and then apply insights from one context to another. With training and practice, we can all increase our mental agility. My friend Noa epitomizes mental agility. She's in technical sales. She's a voracious content consumer. Books, podcasts, videos, it's hard to find a topic or industry she's not curious about. Noa's boss Somar was having a hard time recruiting the right engineer. They were finding good candidates, but they weren't successful in luring them to the company. Somar mentioned this hiring challenge in a meeting. Noa asked Somar how well she knew the candidates? Somar answered, "I've seen the resumes", that seemed good enough to everyone else in the meeting, except Noa. Noa asked if any…
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