I am reading A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink and I'm finding it very interesting. Generally when I say a book is interesting I mean that I'm sure someone out there probably likes it, but not me. For this book though, I actually find it enjoyable and I want to read the entire thing. I might even keep it when I am done as opposed to selling it back to the school store. The reason I like this book so much is because it gives me hope.
Pink talks about how people who have creative minds or are right brain thinkers will become a hot commodity in the next decade. This is because there is an overwhelming amount of Left brain directed thinkers: those who are math and science savvy. This type of work is leaving the US and moving to countries like China where cheap laborers are a dime a dozen and you can pay them pennies for what we in America spend thousands of dollars to go to college for and supposedly become more "marketable".
Those who have the "in demand" R-directed way of thinking must be not only creative and have a design designated approach to things, but they also need to have a precision and crucial eye of a left brainer. That is why Pink call this the "whole new mind"
Monday, April 2, 2007
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