In her recently published book, How We Work, Leah Weiss explains how to “live your purpose, reclaim your sanity, and embrace the daily grind.”

At one point, she observes: “Prototype, experimentation, and informed redesign — the contemporary Western system for innovative thinking known as ‘design thinking’ that is de rigueur all over Silicon Valley — has a surprising analog in a two-thousand-year-old Tibetan system called darma sum. Literally, and rather poetically, darma sum means ‘good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end.’ This three-part mindfulness training instruction applies to everything we do or want to do. Not coincidentally, I think, both design thinking and darma sumtrace the basic structure of another famous learning strategy: the hypothesis, experimentation, and conclusion of the scientific method.”

As I think about all this, I am again reminded of how the mind (what the brain does) can be developed — over time — to integrate reason, intuition, and emotion with the five senses in ways and to an extent that artificial intelligence cannot equal, much less surpass.

The brain is a muscle that can be strengthened. Paraphrasing Henry Ford, whether you think you can or think you can’t strengthen yours, you’re probably right.