Will right-brainers rule the future? A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future, a book by Daniel H. Pink assesses this critical question. Pink’s book is divided into two parts. Part one lays out the broad animating idea, provides an overview of key differences between our left and right hemispheres, presents the case for why Abundance, Asia, and Automation pushes the world into the “Conceptual Age”. It illustrates why people who master high concept and high touch set the tempo for modern life. Part two of the book covers the six essential right brain abilities Pink described as needed to make it in the Conceptual Age. Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. Pink devotes one chapter to each of these six senses, describing how they are being put to use in business and everyday life. Pink puts forth the thesis that we are moving out of the centuries of left-brain dominance and into a new era where right brain qualities will be prized and necessary and to thrive in this new Age we need to take on a whole minded approach to work and life.
Daniel Pink suggests that because of three forces; abundance, Asia, and automation today’s society is moving from a Knowledge Age into a Conceptual Age in which there is a greater need for the kind of thinking and attitudes characterized by the right hemisphere of the brain. Pink presents a strong case for how abundance produces a greater need for R-directed sensibilities. With abundance societies have begun to search for more beauty, spirituality, and emotion. Companies are differentiating based on “the aesthetic imperative,” or beauty, uniqueness and meaningfulness. Pink illustrates this by giving examples of converting mundane products in to objects of desire such as see...
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...g towards a Liberal Arts degree. I was studying things such as critical thinking, reasoning, analytical and knowledge-building skills. My studies were characterized L-directed thinking and focused on qualities like sequence, function, and literal meaning. In relationship to Pink’s thesis I am an L-directed thinker who lack in the areas describes in the book as his six senses and do not take a holistic approach to thinking. As a result of my disposition to L-directed thinking my career development strategy in part will focus on ensuring that I have the skills, knowledge and capabilities to manage a career in today’s economy and society. This will require R-directed aptitudes including design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning.
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Pink, Daniel H.. A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006. Print.
In the magic of the mind author Dr. Elizabeth loftus explains how a witness’s perception of an accident or crime is not always correct because people's memories are often imperfect. “Are we aware of our minds distortions of our past experiences? In most cases, the answer is no.” our minds can change the way we remember what we have seen or heard without realizing it uncertain witnesses “often identify the person who best matches recollection
The growing presence of technology is going to become more and more prevalent in the future as technology continues to evolve. If Carr is right, then we are going to see the continuous deterioration of critical thinking skills in future generations. However, we may also see a rise in more technological advances that will help society function better. Overall, this book was mainly concerned with the effects that new information and communication technologies will have on the brain.
The more a participant preferred their left hand, “the better they were at tests of divergent thoughts” (3). The study also found that “Left-handers were more adept… at combining two common objects” and finding a way “to form a third” (3). The article gives the example that they were better at creating a birdhouse by combining a tin can and a pole. The left-handed group also “excelled at grouping lists of words into as many alternative categories as possible” (3). According to the article, the study found “an increased cognitive flexibility among the ambidextrous and the left-handed,” which tends to lead to a rise in creative thinking (3). This flexibility explains why lefties are over-represented in more creative thinking jobs like music, architecture, and the arts, including famous artists Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. To help Konnikova prove her claim, she makes an underlying assumption that having these skills are beneficial and adds a unique ability to the left-handed
Critics argue that “overemphasis on liberal arts can be detrimental to people” and ask “why doesn’t one just go to technical school to get what they are really after?” It’s because most jobs require the mental capacity to adapt as time passes. This mental capacity is obtained through studies of the liberal arts. For example, one might ask: what possible use could an executive IT (information technology) Manager have for a class like history 2393: Japanese history?
Nowadays, it is widely known that the right and left hemisphere have different functions. The two hemispheres are equally important in a daily life basis. Nevertheless, in the 1960’s this was not common knowledge. Even though today the importance of the brain hemispheres is common knowledge, people don’t usually know to whom attribute this findings. One of the people who contributed to form a more defined picture about the brain hemispheres and their respective functions was Roger Wolcott Sperry, with the split brain research. Roger Sperry did more contributions than the split brain research, but this is his most important and revolutionary research in the psychological field. Thanks to the split brain research, Sperry proved that the two hemispheres of the brain are important, they work together and whatever side of the brain is more capable of doing the task is the hemisphere that takes the lead.
The left-brain / right-brain theory believes that different people are either more dominant using the left hemisphere or the right hemisphere of the brain. According to this theory, analytical, detailed, and logical are all considered common traits of a left-brained learner. Deliberate, original, and creative, are all how right-brained learners may be described (Rodgers).
The two hemispheres of the brain are the left and the right hemisphere. Each having it's own unique purpose and function. The two hemispheres are separated by a fold down the middle connected only by a thick nerve cable called the corpus callosum. The Left hemisphere is thought to be the logical side controlling speech, reading, writing, details, facts, maths and science and rational, literal, practical analysis. The right hemisphere is seen as controlling the intuitive, creative side of life, with spatial perception, symbols and images, face recognition, imagination, beliefs and fantasy. (Vered, 2013, www.brainskills.co.uk)
“Right-brained” or “left-brained” is a concept that has been manipulated by the media, it’s not supported by solid science. The myth of a “right-brain” person is generally creative, intuitive, artsy, while a left-brain person is more of a problem-solver, more direct, logical. Somehow the real meaning was lost in translation, so I’ll explain. The brain is divided into two sides, called hemispheres. The left hemisphere
In theory, the left and right hemisphere of the brain process diverse information to the corpus collosum. The corpus collosum will consecutively process information about what the left and right brain identify and then generate the conclusion. Both sides of the brain have its own specialized function to interpret the information but it cannot comprehend the same way. A research experiments conducted by Roger Sperry, validate the characteristics of each side of the brain. The left hemisphere of the brain is logic. It main focuses is language, critical thinking, numbers, reasoning, and objective. The right hemisphere is more creativity. It abilities include expressive, recognizing, music, reading emotions, color, images, intuition, and subjective.
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Sigmund Freud was the initiator of psychoanalysis. He altered the insight into the human mind and how it works. It spurred him into defining the unconscious and what was for him the powerhouse of personality – irrational motivation. The series examines profound queries surrounding the origins and techniques of contemporary consumerism, commodification, typical democracy and its consequences. It furthermore looks at the current manner we perceive ourselves, the outlooks to fashion and superficiality. Freud's findings in connection with the mind were methodically applied by corporate America and the U.S. government to raise their capital and authority. This technique also provided the impre...
Gardner, H. The Mind's New Science: A History of Cognitive Revolution. New York, Basic Books, 1987.
Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind (1949) is a critique of the notion that the mind is distinct from the body, and is a rejection of the philosophical theory that mental states are distinct from physical states. Ryle argues that the traditional approach to the relation of mind and body (i.e., the approach which is taken by the philosophy of Descartes) assumes that there is a basic distinction between Mind and Matter. According to Ryle, this assumption is a basic 'category-mistake,' because it attempts to analyze the relation betwen 'mind' and 'body' as if they were terms of the same logical category. Furthermore, Ryle argues that traditional Idealism makes a basic 'category-mistake' by trying to reduce physical reality to the same status as mental reality, and that Materialism makes a basic 'category-mistake' by trying to reduce mental reality to the same status as physical reality.
The mind is such a beautiful mystery that gives us humans the power to come up with extraordinary ideas. Every individual is different; we all have different ideas and opinions on how we approach life. The situation of living can be twisted and bended into many ideas that humans have formed overtime. Life to me is important to be questioned. Famous philosopher Socrates believed that the unexamined life is not worth living, this is something I highly agree on. Life has many folded questions, which some people choose to unfold while others choose to follow the system of not asking too many questions.