| A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future |  | Author: Daniel H. Pink
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ISBN: 1423377001
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.35
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Publication Date: January 1, 2009
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Lawyers. Accountants. Software engineers. That's what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of "left-brain" dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers-creative and empathic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the advanced world, Daniel Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are essential for professional success and personal fulfillment-and reveals how to master them. From a laughter club in Bombay, to an inner-city high school devoted to design, to a lesson on how to detect an insincere smile, A Whole New Mind takes listeners to a daring new place, and offers a provocative and urgent new way of thinking about a future that has already arrived.
"This book is a miracle. Completely original and profound." - Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence
"A very important, convincingly argued and mind-altering book." - Po Bronson, author of What Should I Do With My Life?
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 Inspiring July 24, 2010
Omani (LOS ANGELES, CA, US)
I love this book by Daniel Pink -- his vision for a Creative future is spot on... It's an easy, enthusiastic read -- a very positive book. He foresees that in the coming years the workforce will be dominated by meaning-makers, empathizers, and creatives. Throughout the book, Pink shares a lot of additional references, which is useful. A good book for us creatives who need a boost of hope! For a more practical aspect of creativity, I also recommend The Creative Advantage Book: Unleash Your Creativity And Change The World!.
practicals to train your right brain July 18, 2010
Philip
Lots of examples to train your right brain let you not just learn the theroy but to practise it. The attributes of the right brainer are clearly defined. Whether the right brainers will rule the world remains to be seen but it is clear that they would have an advantarge in the new world described in the book.
 easy, accessible read to introduce left-brain thinkers to the other side of their brain. July 4, 2010
Vicki L. Kensinger (palmyra, pa)
my husband brought this book home for summer required reading for his job (he is an administrator in a public school district). being so hopelessly right-brained myself, i was delighted to notice it on his side of the bed ! :) don't know if i like the angle so much, which seems to be about 'getting ahead' in the new competitive world (same old left brain movtivation), i LOVe that it encourages and values right brain activity. there's a part of me that figures whatever the motivation for developing the right brain, good (and perhaps unanticiapted) outcomes will flow, and any book that advocates art, play, empathy, story-telling and meaning- seeking, and beauty and makes it simply accessible to someone for whom these ideas are akin a foreign language, is a book i'd recommend. buy it for the left-brain thinkers in your world. for the right-brained folks, its a quick and easy, validating read.
A whole new way of looking at the world June 23, 2010
Harvey Deutschendorf (Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Other Kind of Smart: Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success
It would be interesting to be able to look into the future and see how history treats this book. As we look around we can see a lot of what Daniel Pink mentions in the book happenning today. There is increasing interest in a search for meaning, spirituality, emotional intelligence and ways of tying it all together.
The author argues that society has in the past not appreciated right brain thinkers as much as left brain. However, the people who reach the highest levels in business, government and military have always been expected to have the ability to see the large picture, requiring them to tie together various diverse elements of information. This skill has been deemed to be so important that we are willing to pay corporate CEO's who posess it vast sums of money.
For me, the book is not so much a debate about the left brain/right brain and which is superior. We have both and need both. It points towards a new awareness that regardless of the technical advancements we achieve and material posessions that we are able to obtain, we will always find ourselves wanting. The new frontier will be about how well we are able to establish meaningful relationships with one another and the world around us.
A fascinating book that I think will be debated, talked about and remembered for decades in the future.
Decent discussion of what it will take to succeed in the future. June 21, 2010
R. J. McCabe (Seattle)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
In a nutshell, this book gives a succinct set of problems and solutions for succeeding in the future
PROBLEMS:
Abundance - hundreds of options for any situation (classic example: grocery stores)
Asia - billions of people providing cheap labor
Automation - We don't need a lot of people to do build anything anymore
SOLUTIONS:
Design - make it cool (see Apple computer)
Story - a compelling narrative wins the day
Symphony - see the big picture and synthesize better solutions
Empathy - understand fellow humans to provide what they need
Play - we all need to play
Meaning - help people pursue purpose, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment
According to the author, the requirements to succeeding in the future involve developing and engaging your RIGHT BRAIN accomplish the solutions mentioned above. Not to say using your LEFT BRAIN isn't important, but that you need to use them EQUALLY,whereas in recent decades industry has mostly emphasized use of your left brain.
I found myself skimming the book a lot. It's largely based on a handful of examples and lots of conjecture. Nothing really earth shattering IMO, but food for thought.
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