{"id":6242,"date":"2012-12-17T09:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2012-12-17T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T14:06:30","slug":"book-review-a-whole-new-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=6242","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: A Whole New Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=6243\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6243\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6243\" title=\"1_6_26\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1_6_26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1_6_26.jpg 360w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1_6_26-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1_6_26-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship&#8221; Exodus 35:31<\/p>\n<p>As a Christian, I know that God is the Creator.\u00a0 As a follower of Christ, I am called to be creative.\u00a0 That is true even in the way I share the gospel.\u00a0 The gospel truth is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow&#8230;.my calling is to make my life and my story attractive to people in a way that will point them to Jesus.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danpink.com\/books\/whole-new-mind\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Pink&#8217;s<\/a> book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Whole-New-Mind-Right-Brainers-Future\/dp\/1594481717\" target=\"_blank\">A Whole New Mind<\/a> reminds us that our culture is in the midst of change.\u00a0 In order to truly impact people, you have to attract them first.<\/p>\n<p>As an educator, this book is a great reminder that logic is still a critical skill&#8230;but creativity is a necessary component in getting your point across.\u00a0 This is the essence of 21st Century learning.\u00a0 I highlighted several things while reading and have pasted them below&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a society built on the inventive, big-picture capabilities of what&#8217;s rising in its place, the Conceptual Age.<\/li>\n<li>Our brains are divided into two hemispheres.\u00a0 The left hemisphere is sequential, logical, and analytical.\u00a0 The right hemisphere is nonlinear, intuitive, and holistic.<\/li>\n<li>Left-brain-style thinking used to be the driver and right-brain-style thinking the passenger.\u00a0 Now, R-Directed Thinking is suddenly grabbing the wheel, stepping on the gas, and determining where we&#8217;re going and how we&#8217;ll get there.\u00a0 L-Directed aptitudes&#8211;the sorts of things measured by the SAT and deployed by CPAs&#8211;are still necessary.\u00a0 But they&#8217;re no longer sufficient.\u00a0 Instead, the R-Directed aptitudes so often disdained and dismissed&#8211;artistry, empathy, taking the long view, pursuing the transcendent&#8211;will increasingly determine who soars and who stumbles.<\/li>\n<li>Mastery of design, empathy, play, and other seemingly &#8220;soft&#8221; aptitudes is now the main way for individuals and firms to stand out in a crowded marketplace.<\/li>\n<li>As Columbia University&#8217;s Andrew Delbanco puts it, &#8220;The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Outsourcing is overhyped in the short term.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s under hyped in the long term.<\/li>\n<li>Think of the last 150 years as a three-act drama.\u00a0 In Act 1, the Industrial Age, massive factories and efficient assembly lines powered the economy.\u00a0 In Act 2, the Information Age, the United States and other nations began to evolve.\u00a0 Now, as the forces of Abundance, Asia, and Automation deepen and intensify, the curtain is rising on Act 3.\u00a0 Call this act the Conceptual Age.<\/li>\n<li>In short, we&#8217;ve progressed from a society of farmers to a society of factory workers to a society of knowledge workers.\u00a0 And now we&#8217;re progressing yet again&#8211;to a society of creators and empathizers, of pattern recognizers and meaning makers.<\/li>\n<li>In a world tossed by Abundance, Asia, and Automation, in which L-Directed Thinking remains necessary but no longer sufficient, we must become proficient in R-Directed Thinking and master aptitudes that are high concept and high touch.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve distilled the answer to six specific high-concept and high-touch aptitudes that have become essential in this new era.\u00a0 I call these aptitudes &#8220;the six senses.&#8221;\u00a0 Design.\u00a0 Story.\u00a0 Symphony.\u00a0 Empathy.\u00a0 Play.\u00a0 Meaning.<\/li>\n<li>Not just function but also DESIGN.<br \/>\nNot just argument but also STORY.<br \/>\nNot just focus but also SYMPHONY.<br \/>\nNot just logic by also EMPATHY.<br \/>\nNot just seriousness but also PLAY.<br \/>\nNot just accumulation but also MEANING.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Design is interdisciplinary.\u00a0 We&#8217;re producing people who can think holistically.&#8221;\u00a0 Clair Gallagher<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn&#8217;t know it was missing.&#8221;\u00a0 Paola Antonelli, curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Aesthetics matter.\u00a0 Attractive things work better.&#8221;\u00a0 Don Norman, author and engineering professor<\/li>\n<li>The democratization of design has altered the competitive logic of businesses.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s not true that what is useful is beautiful.\u00a0 It is what is beautiful that is useful.\u00a0 Beauty can improve people&#8217;s way of life and thinking.&#8221;\u00a0 Anna Castelli Ferrieri, furniture designer<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.&#8221;\u00a0 Roger C. Schank, cognitive scientist<\/li>\n<li>Symphonic thinking is a signature ability of composers and conductors, whose jobs involve corralling a diverse group of notes, instruments, and performers and producing a unified and pleasing sound.<\/li>\n<li>Empathy is an essential part of Design, because good designers put themselves in the mind of whoever is going to experience the product or service they&#8217;re designing.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Games are the most elevated form of investigation.&#8221;\u00a0 Albert Einstein<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.&#8221;\u00a0 Jacob Needleman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship&#8221; Exodus 35:31 As a Christian, I know that God is the Creator.\u00a0 As a follower of Christ, I am called to be creative.\u00a0 That is true even in the way I share the gospel.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-education","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}