In other words, literary fiction's uniqueness compared to scholarly ways of doing social science is a greater flexibility of the mind in the search for new answers to old problems or new problems with no answers.
And while selling to China did present some of the challenges I anticipated, it brought many others that blindsided me, requiring a severe adjustment of my cultural paradigms and a flexibility of the mind that had seldom been stretched that far!
The real revolution would have been true artificial intelligence, he said, not the type of predictive algorithm found in something like Amazon's shopping recommendation, but a machine that can handle information with the flexibility of the human mind.
It is a word that implies not only strength, as one might expect, but also gentleness, as one might not, and along with gentleness the virtues of learnedness, including flexibility of mind and the capacity to experience deep emotion, both in life and in art.
But such moves run counter to a growing awareness that in a world of rapid change and contending cultures, the breadth and flexibility of mind fostered by the liberal arts may offer a unique competitive advantage.
The modern course produces "leaders with the flexibility of mind to solve complex operational and strategic problems in peace, conflict, and war".
He constantly put duty first, but lacked the flexibility of mind to steer his country in a crisis, let alone the first world war.
Such education has a profound effect on the health professional's understanding of the world and hence usefulness to patients, and it affords the flexibility of mind that is needed for major research undertakings.
Strong was right about that; he was right about many things, and, of the four central bankers in Ahamed's book, he is the one who seemed to have the most flexibility of mind — though he could also be forceful to the point of brutishness.
