Listen and repeat back what you hear in your own words. What might sound like “deep thinking” is often synthesizing. And when it’s said in a different way, tra

Listen and repeat back what you hear in your own words. What might sound like “deep thinking” is often synthesizing. And when it’s said in a different way, translated in ones own words, it will be a different take on what the person is telling you. Then if you learn to synthesize the other things you’ve heard and weave that into the narrative you’ll add a lot of value to conversations. Then a lot of insight is a natural “next step” from one of the descriptions. We tend to imagine creativity as whole cloth ideas generated by some genius from the ether, but it’s really a listening, repeating, and taking turns seeing one small next step or issue..