The Gifted Creative Podcast
This podcast explores creative intelligence, the integration of cognitive and somatic awareness that represents our return to full human capacity. As a creative intelligence researcher, I'm investigating what we once had but lost, and what some of us still carry despite every effort by our systems to break our creative intelligence.
Many people who've been labeled as having disabilities, learning differences, or who simply don't fit into current systems are actually carrying intact creative intelligence. What looked like a liability in rigid systems becomes essential capacity when those systems collapse.
We had this integrated intelligence before, the ability to think somatically, to see whole systems, to think top down and bottom up, to connect rather than separate, to integrate past wisdom with future possibilities.
Our institutions trained us to fragment our intelligence, to privilege only cognitive processing, to fit into narrow definitions of how minds should work.
Now that those systems are failing, those of us who maintained or recovered our full intelligence are having to figure out how to survive and thrive without the structures that never really worked for us anyway. And we're discovering that what we carry is exactly what everyone needs now.
Through deep exploration of ancient wisdom, mythology, and philosophy, each episode recovers practical knowledge about how creative intelligence actually works.
Together we can remember how to reconnect the connection that we lost and build a sustainable world that reclaims our full human capacity. An essential skill for navigating for the change we are about to face.
The Gifted Creative Podcast
Almost Everything We Were Taught About Intelligence is Wrong - A Tri-Part Model of Creative Intelligence
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Podcast Summary: The Tri-Part Model of Creative Intelligence
In this thought-provoking exploration I introduce my Tri-Part Model of Intelligence—cognitive, somatic, and creative—challenging the modern emphasis on cognitive intelligence as primary. Historically, cognitive intelligence (our 2D, analytical mind) was seen as just one of three, and the smallest at that. The somatic intelligence (3D, environmental/emotional awareness) processes a billion bits of data per second, dwarfing the cognitive’s mere 10 bits. True brilliance emerges when these are integrated into creative intelligence (4D), which synthesizes big-picture awareness with focused detail, amplified by mental models and discernment.
The speaker argues that industrial systems suppress creative intelligence, fracturing individuals and stifling natural talents. Sensitivity, often pathologized, is reframed as a gift—a channel for talent and deep pattern recognition. Creative individuals thrive in mutually altruistic, self-organizing communities, where each person’s unique sensitivity and stamina drive collective harmony.
The cerebellum, containing 80% of the brain’s neurons, plays a pivotal role in processing sensory and cognitive inputs, governed by the salience network to discern what’s important. This discernment is key to navigating the future, especially as AI and societal collapse demand adaptive, grounded intelligence.
Historical and cultural references—from Plato’s reason/spirit/appetite to polyvagal theory’s head/heart/gut—underscore the recurring theme of tripartite intelligence. The speaker’s Creative Intelligence Institute (www.creativeintelligenceinstitute.ca) supports sensitive individuals in honing their sensitivities as talent, preparing for a future where creative intelligence is essential for survival and thriving.
As systems collapse, those who cultivate their creative intelligence—grounded in reality, discerning, and adaptive—will lead the way.
To learn more about my creative intelligence research or the Institute check out my websites.
www.creativeintelligenceinstitute.ca
www.giftednd.com
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