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title: "The Cognitive Agility Framework: five human capacities"
description: "Flexible thinking, emotional intelligence, collaborative intelligence, intuition and innovation: the five capacities that AI cannot automate."
language: en
source: https://coachsteff.live/en/cognitive-agility-framework
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# The Cognitive Agility Framework: five human capacities

Cognitive agility is the uniquely human ability to adjust your thinking and your emotional and social approach, so that you find your way in messy, unpredictable situations. It is not a single skill, it is a meta-capacity.

## Five capacities, one meta-capacity

I have identified five capacities that together form the core of cognitive agility: flexible thinking, emotional intelligence, collaborative intelligence, intuition and innovation. Together they form the CAF, the Cognitive Agility Framework. These are not abstract concepts. You can see them, you can train them, and they are becoming increasingly valuable now that AI is taking over the predictable work.

> **Human skills** (five capacities) plus **deliberate practice** (trained through coaching and experience) together create **cognitive agility**, the meta-capacity.