- Geniuses look at problems at all angles.
- Geniuses make their thoughts visible through diagrams, graphs, etc.
- Geniuses produce lots of good but also bad ideas.
- Geniuses combine and recombine ideas, images, and thoughts.
- Geniuses force unconnected relationships to see things others miss.
- Geniuses think in opposites or can accept ambiguities, ambivalence, or incompatible ideas.
- Geniuses think in terms of metaphors, analogies, concepts, and abstractions.
- Geniuses prepare themselves for chance, serendipity, synchronicity, and creative accident.[i]
[i] Originally in Michalko, Michalko, “The Art of Genius,” May, 98 Futurist and appeared in July-August, 1998 Utne Reader.