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.