The ability to cross information between specialties
Apply what you hear/know/learn in, say biology to, say, economics. Or counter science.
The ability to deal with multiple simultaneous levels of abstraction while building metaphors during someone else speaking so you can figure out what they're saying (and absorb/reject) faster
August 09, 2020 at 08:29AM
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