What a conversation with Maps Maponyane in Johannesburg taught me about creativity, cognitive offloading, empathy, beginner’s mind, failure, and the kind of intelligence we need to protect. After I finished my keynote at Standard Bank CIB’s Brand & Marketing Blue Flame Awards Gala in Johannesburg, Mapps joined me onstage for a conversation. Soon it would feel as if we had somehow transported to a bar Hemmingway might have frequented for a late-night philosophical conversation. I had just spent the better…