What Shape is Your Talent?

Spiderweb? Loop? Or Funnel?

Let me back up a second and start with a simple idea: Skills are really circuits in your brain.

I think this is a cool and useful idea, first because our brains are plastic and changeable. And second, because it leads us somewhere even cooler and more useful. Shapes.

All neural circuits have shapes. In fact, I'd like to assert that those shapes come in three basic types, into which pretty much every talent in the world can be sorted, and which might hold important...