Key Points

•    An innovative mindset builds on these thinking skills: creative thinking, systems thinking, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking.

•    There are many ways to build these thinking skills; they can be developed at most stages of life.

•    An innovative mindset contains curiosity, risk taking, passion, persistence, assumption challenging, being a change agent, and having a tolerance for ambiguity.

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