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Where do the extraordinary mental abilities of creative visionaries and astute decision-makers like Vincent van Gogh, Steve Jobs, Abraham Lincoln, Maya Angelou, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Wayne Gretzky, Warren Buffett, and William Shakespeare come from?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 2021, researchers from the Project Narrative at Ohio State University announced that they had the answer: our true source of resilience, problem-solving, innovation, and creativity actually resides in the emotional and illogical part of our brain. They called it primitive intelligence and published scientific evidence that, while it was impossible for computers to replicate, it could be strengthened in humans.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Intrigued, the United States Army Special Operations developed primitive training for their most classified units. It was a success! 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