🧠The Future of Creative IQ: 👩🎤
How Generalisation is Outpacing Specialisation 2025 And Beyond
"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
— Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
What does the future look like for multipotentialites in an AI-driven world?
Understanding our evolutionary past can highlight the potential future.
After all, history has a history of repeating itself.
AI is reshaping society at an unprecedented pace. It will change everything—except human nature.
Understanding human nature gives us insight into how humanity will respond to these societal shifts and how multipotentiality can thrive.
Human Evolution
For 10,000 years, humans were hunters gatherers and farmers. We tethered the land bound by the rules of nature.
We toiled long hours, relying on our physical strength for survival.
Our competitive advantage? Physical strength.
The Industrial Revolution
Then everything changed.
The steam engine rolled in, transforming our relationship with work.
Physical strength became less relevant, and the emphasis shifted to knowledge.
Industrialists needed educated workers for their factories, so they built the education system.
We followed the rules of this —getting schooled, conforming to societal expectations, and acquiring knowledge.
The ultimate goal? To specialise and become experts.
The competitive advantage? Specialisation and expertise.
Marshall McLuhan, noted, “We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
Knowledge-Economy
For the last 250 years, we’ve been amassing knowledge and celebrating expertise.
Expertise provided status and security.
This created a specialist society. Everyone wanted specialists and generalists struggled.
But now, as we step into an AI-driven future, societal rules are shifting once again.
It’s no longer about leveraging physical strength or specialised knowledge; as AI is replacing specialisation.
AI has all the knowledge so the gaps in the future invite us to embrace our human creativity, emotional intelligence and multipotentiality.
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.” — Peter Drucker
But we have to adapt our thinking.
The competitive advantage? Multipotentiality, empathy and human creativity.
Or simply put, creative intelligence.
The Creator Economy / Portfolio Careers
The rat race is addicted to certainty and efficiency dismissing creativity as intangible and uncertain.
However, the creator economy is valued at $250 billion and is projected to double in the coming years.
By 2027, portfolio careers and freelancing are predicted to comprise 50% of the US workforce.
Naturally, multipotentialites possess diverse skill sets that enable them to fully embrace this.
Those with high IQ and AQ (Adaptability Quotient) will gain a significant competitive advantage.
Futurists like Rita J. King, Jim Carroll, Kevin Kelly, and John Sanei predict a rise in AQ and human creativity.
Terms like “imagination workers” and the “intuition economy” are gaining traction as we collectively navigate the future.
As society shifts from valuing IQ to prioritising AQ, what many perceive as weaknesses in a specialist society will become our greatest strengths by 2025 and beyond.
But, each of us needs to develop our unique skills, starting with self-discovery.
“The only journey is the one within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
Collaboration
Collaboration among multipotentialites is key.
Michael and I are good examples.
I’m a big-picture thinker, while Michael is detail-oriented, making us a strong partnership.
I bring a deep understanding of multipotentiality, creative philosophy, and brand building.
Michael is a deeply creative person with over 20 years of experience in full-stack development and now AI within Los Angeles's cutting-edge creative tech scene, having worked with creative tech giants like Disney, Activision, etc.
We’re ambitious individuals. We want to have an impact.
We developed Niche Creator to gain a purposeful competitive edge in an AI-driven world.
"You're not going to lose your job to AI; you're going to lose your job to someone who is using AI." — Gary V
Niche Creator boosts our creativity and productivity, helping us make quick authentic decisions when we feel stuck.
It allows us to niche up our skills and create unique projects and content ideas that stand out in a crowded market.
Final Thoughts 💭
The strengths of multipotentiality and adaptability are competitive advantages in an AI world that increasingly replaces specialisation.
Throughout human evolution, new technology has always determined our competitive advantages.
Our generalist knowledge and adaptability help us navigate diverse interests, while our ability to connect the dots drives creativity and innovation.
Our greatest asset is empathy, as human connection and meaning become increasingly scarce.
As deep thinkers—philosophically, creatively, and spiritually—we thrive through emotional intelligence, allowing us to resonate and connect with others.
In an automated world, deep human creativity sets us apart.
By embracing our multipotentiality, we adapt, innovate, and cultivate creativity.
“Develop many super-micro powers! You should always have too many interests and not enough time!” — Jim Carroll, Futurist
Our creative intelligence and adaptability give us the same advantages that specialists have enjoyed for over 250 years, but it’s our responsibility to seize these opportunities.
As the importance of the specialist economy diminishes, the rise of multipotentiality will continue to grow.
Whilst, change is scary, it is inevitable. It also provides huge opportunities, just look at the opportunities the internet provided for example.
"AI is the Biggest Invention, Since the Invention of Electricity." Seth Godin
Embrace the unknown, for within it lies the potential for extraordinary growth and creativity.
"The opportunities for agile, smart people to take advantage of AI are enormous!" — Seth Godin
I feel a bit of fear, but mostly curiosity.
How do you feel about the future?
Do you feel fear?
Or Curiosity?