Chapter+1+Conclusion

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Chapter 1 • Conclusion
We tend to think of genius as an innate //gift//, received by only a lucky few. While that may be true, the methods of genius are not solely theirs. Perceiving, patterning, abstracting, embodiment, modeling, playing, synthesizing: all of these can be taught. All can be learned.

These are the tools of thought. None of them are new.

It's not hard to see @abstracting in the cave paintings of Lescaux; patterning in the early pottery of China, or playing anywhere in the world.
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What we have to learn, as human beings, is that our brains are capable of applying these tools to problems as readily as we apply chopsticks — or a fork — to a plate of noodles. Having more than one tool provides options.

The tools are there; we need only to take them into our hands and use them.

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."  **Carl G. Jung**