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Title: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
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| A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Riverhead Trade Insightful and visionary for our futures in business... |
| I read this title by Dan Pink after discovering "The Adventures of Johnny Bunko". Mr. Pink's application of Manga for this writing was excellent. After reviewing the sample for the Kindle, I was all in on this title. The book is insightful and informative. There is a new revolution in business in our culture that is gaining momentum. This book provides insight as to how to get into the curve before the revolution overruns our value in the job market. If you are concerned with our professional futures, Dan provides a thought process to adjust to for our collective futures. Dan's writing style insures that stats and data are delivered in a way that is entertaining and captivating. Don't wait. This information is needed by businesses and professionals now! Stay ahead of the curve in this revolution. |
| A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Riverhead Trade Too shallow and simplistic |
| I bought this book recently but after a few pages it just became too simplistic in its content and I began to wonder whether it was even worth the effort to write such a book unless of course you can make some money from sticking a few ideas down on paper. It appears that hardly any serious reserach and investigation had been done to support the thesis. Waste of money as it could be sped read in the bookshop in about 5 minutes and you would learn just as much as you would from buying the book. |
| A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Riverhead Trade Huh? |
| There's only one, leeeeetle, itsy-bitsy problem with this book: There is no such thing as a "right-brain thinker." Nobody really takes the right-brain/left-brain distinction seriously anymore. It's fun, silly, pop psychology, and nothing more. It's kind of like the old wives tale (also untrue) that we only use 10% of our brains. It's simply not true that people who are more creative are more "right brained," etc. There are people who, for various reasons, have had to undergo psychosurgery wherein an entire hemisphere of their brain is removed. If the right half of their brain was removed you would think that their creative side would be gone, and that they'd be left with a left-brained analytical outlook. Not so. Simply doesn't happen. It takes them a while to adapt, but the brain does adapt. The brain is high in plasticity, and most functions are distributed throughout the entire brain. Further--and for many this is the real shocker--neuroscience is far less scientific than most people realize. It's simply not true that when people engage in certain activities that certain parts of the brain "light up." Rather, somewhat crude algorithms are used, and the different parts of the brain that "light up" for different people are averaged. For anyone interested I recommend Neural Theories of Mind, and then The New Phrenology, both by William Uttal. |
| A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Riverhead Trade Fantastic book about the future needs for our kids |
| I purchased this after a recommendation by the President of the National Association of Independent Schools, for which I am grateful. It offers an amazing perspective on the future needs of our current generation of students once they enter the workplace. I now give it to fellow parents as a guideline for how to steer their children's educational efforts. |
| A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Riverhead Trade Fun and Eye opening |
| This book connects the reader with a wide ranging variety of areas. It opens one to re-imagining the world and people around us. He suggests music to listen to, books to read, web sites to visit and people to engage. He recounts his personal process in search of an answer: how do we conceive the world? It doesn't tilt into: How we Should conceive the world. |
| A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Riverhead Trade Product Description |
| The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment-and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here. |
