Mar 20, 2014
Which side of your brain is more dominant? Take the popular brain test and compare the result with your friends!
What's a Lefty to do in this conceptual age?
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Which side of your brain is more dominant? Take the popular brain test and compare the result with your friends!
What's a Lefty to do in this conceptual age?
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Daniel Pink's book "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future" discusses how we are currently living in the Conceptual Age , an age where creators and empathizers will be driving...
presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to ...
... Because mere survival today depends on being able to do something that overseas knowledge workers can't do cheaper, powerful computers can't do faster, and that satisfies one of the nonmaterial, mystical, spiritual desires of an abundant age.
… Because high-tech is no longer enough.
Single answer or Gestalt
In his book A Whole New Mind, Dan Pink speaks to the merits of marrying left-brain thinking with right-brain thinking and how we need that to evolve in to the next phase of our cultural journey – from Industrial Age to Information Age to Conceptual Age. In a way it asks the question, is it better to arrive at a single answer (which is usually the result of left-brain dominated thinking) or diverge into a gestalt (more right-brain thinking). In hard core commercial pursuits, right brain thinking could be seen as a saboteur (muddling the facts with intuition and emotion). However given the growing complexity of the world around us, the books advises to move from day-to-day text to context.
The book cites a fine example of how certain languages (like Arabic and Hebrew) are heavily dependent on context, so when they are written right to left they rely on the reader to supply the vowels based on context (unlike English and most other languages written left to right). Having studied Arabic in my younger years, I can attest that it took some time to wrap my head around the fundamental differences between it and the other languages I was learning. Overall the author emphasizes the need to marry the two kinds of thinking and develop six senses - Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play and Meaning. To exemplify the reason behind these senses, Pink says ‘…there have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories’. Dan Pink’s other book ‘Drive’ was very good too – quick reads both. A 10 mins. video on Drive if you don’t have time for the book.