Creativity belongs to everyone. Something happened between childhood and now. The question is not if you are creative, but what happened to your reltionship with it.

Creativity is not distributed unevenly at birth. It is our natural response to not knowing what comes next.

On every old map, where the known world ended, the mapmakers wrote the same words, ‘here be dragons’.

The real challenge of our time is not learning how to predict the future, but to learn how to navigate when certainty disappears. The map may run out, but the inner compass was always there.

By increasingly outsourcing our attention to technology, we are becoming less aware of our environment. We stop using our senses and begin to lose the capacity to see through complexities, discover patterns and experience the terrain as it unfolds.

Navigating complex situations with logic and analysis alone is rarely enough. Better thinking often depends on something more subtle. It depends on the balance of two ways of thinking.

The pressure to resolve ambiguity is deeply ingrained in professional life. Teams are rewarded for decisive action. But what is the cost of closing too soon?

When we find ourselves in uncertain terrain instinctively we look for a map, preferably one drawn by someone who seems to know the way. But every map is also a story. A story about how the world works.

We treat uncertainty as a temporary disruption, something to analyse and resolve. Increasingly it seems that uncertainty is not the interruption. It is the terrain.

Ask most people whether they are creative and the answer is immediate. Artists, writers and designers are creative. But me? Not really.

“The way forward is not to think harder, but to listen deeper” Uncertainty is nothing new, but it is the speed of change and volume of information that is like nothing we have seen before. It is easy to feel overwhelmed not knowing what to trust and how to respond. The Reflex to Resolve We tend to speak about uncertainty as though it is a problem to be solved, something temporary or inconvenient, a gap that should be closed as quickly as possible. From an early age we are t