A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink:
Daniel Pink, offers a metaphor for the changes taking place in the world of work and discusses how those changes relate to education.
I found it a compelling hypothesis and I recommend the book.
Even more compelling is the challenge of where to find these Right Brain thinkers.
We are almost certainly not going to find them amongst those young people who have recently left school, or are still at school. There may be a few survivors of our Left Brain educational system but Sir Ken Robinson said: “We’ve been educated to become good workers rather than creative thinkers”.
In fact, I have heard Sir Ken go further when he claims that we are actually killing creativity!
Changing our education system is a challenge way beyond my capability, but enhancing Right Brain capacity and benefiting hugely from the Right Brain capacity of my networks isn’t difficult – it’s actually easy.
It’s easy because my Right Brain responds directly and immediately and in direct relationship to my energy. When my energy goes up, so does my creativity, my intuition and my empathy – and my ability to tap into the corresponding Right Brain capacity of my network.
The secrets and the solutions, for everyone, lie in mastering personal and inter-personal energy and accessing Right Brain capacity in exponential ways from everyone around us.
