Geniuses are geniuses because they form more (a)   combinations than the merely talented people. (novelty)

With productive thinking, one can (a)   as many alternative approaches as one can by considering the least obvious as well as the most likely approaches. (generation)

In order to creatively solve a problem, the thinker must (a)   the initial approach that stems from past experience and re-conceptualise the problem. (abandonment)

Run-of-the-mill physicists have IQs much higher than Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, who many (a)   to be the last great American genius. (acknowledgement)

Because of the (a)   of the steps based on past experiences, we become arrogantly certain of the correctness of our conclusions. (sound)

Geniuses tend to come up with many different responses, some of which are (a)   and possibly unique. (conventional)

Everyone has their own (a)   style of taking and organizing notes, or using abbreviations. For this reason, your own notes will always be more meaningful to you than someone else’s notes. (uniqueness)

Debates help improve a variety of skills such as speaking confidently in public, (a)   to hear different arguments and building valid arguments. (willing)

Coupled with the widespread job destruction following the great recession, AI has become a fixture in the news (and the movies), looking alternatively (a)   and threatening. (promise)

If one particular style of thought stands out about creative genius, it is the ability to make (a)   between dissimilar subjects. (juxtapose)

Physicist and philosopher David Bohm believed geniuses were able to think different thoughts because they could tolerate (a)   between opposites or two incompatible subjects. (ambivalent)

Aristotle considered metaphor a sign of genius, believing that the individual who had the capacity to perceive (a)   between two separate areas of existence was a person of special gifts. (resemble)

Einstein could (a)   and explain many of his abstract principles by drawing analogies with everyday occurrences such as rowing a boat or standing on a platform while a train passed by. (derivation)

Too many people fail to answer opportunity's knock at the door because they have to finish some (a)   plan. (preconception)