Deepak Mehta is an innovation ecosystem developer, writer and curator based in Belgium. His work sits at the intersection of human intelligence, entrepreneurship, technology and complex systems: exploring how people who think differently can contribute when organisations and societies face problems that no single discipline can solve. After years of building innovation communities, hackathons and cross-sector collaborations, he became increasingly interested in a recurring paradox: organisations say they need creativity, systems thinking and unconventional problem-solving, yet often struggle to recognise or use the people who naturally bring those qualities. That question became TƎT — Talents for Exceptional Times. Through stories, reflection tools and workshops, TƎT reframes cognitive difference around capabilities rather than diagnoses. Fables for Exceptional Times uses eight animal stories to make qualities such as integrative thinking, deep focus, strategic empathy, cognitive dexterity and adaptive masking easier to recognise and discuss. Deepak writes to create language for forms of intelligence that are often felt before they are understood — and to help people, teams and organisations make better use of the human talent already around them.