Daniel H. Pink
You’re going to need one, according to Pink. With the forces of cheap labor halfway across the world, cheap domestic products available in abundance here at home, and robot computers increasingly able to do what humans used to make their livings at; you’re looking at unemployment.
Pink argues that the american workforce needs to hedge it’s bet on the right brain abilities instead of the left, which we’ve relied on to get where we are now. He cites design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning as the six Ideas most important to the new “conceptual age” worker.
Tell the truth, I hope I won’t have to work a day in my life. But this new sort of industry Pink says is coming out of the woodwork looks lots better to me than cashing people’s checks, or just sitting in front of a computer programming. I guess I’ll take what I can get.
Reading left to right exercises the left side of the brain, just as moving your right hand does. (Contralateralization). 18
Left brain is sequential, the right simultaneous. 18
Abundance has produced an ironic result: the very triumph of L-Directed thinking has placed a premium on less rational, more R-Directed sensibilities – beauty, spirituality, emotion. For businesses, it’s no longer enough to create a product that’s reasonably priced and adequately functional. It must also be beautiful, unique, and meaningful. 33
In a study, patients recovering from surgery in adequately and naturally lit rooms required 21% less pain medication then those in traditional hospital beds. 82
Games are the most elevated form of investigation. Albert Einstien quoted on 183
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