« Ready for a dive | Main | "My Beating Blog" » A Whole New Mind?I haven't read Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind; in fact, it's not even on the stack. However I was trippin' through the reviews at Amazon and noted John Hwung's assessment: The title of the book is very appropriate. For the age that we are in, we need a whole new mind. However, the book promised a mansion, but ended up giving us an apartment. It begins like a Porsche, but ended like a VW Beetle. The author correctly diagnosed the disease of Abundance, Asia, and Automation, but prescribed the wrong medicine of six right-brain-directed (R-Directed) aptitudes. Well, everybody's gotta have a gimmick, and as Jim Whitaker (my former roommate) often said, "Poetry don't feed the bulldog." My own take on the right-brain/left-brain question, as a connoisseur of consciousness, is that we should live somewhere in the middle. If Daniel Pink pushes us to the right, maybe we'll find balance. That would be both Whole and New for most of us.... jon posted this at 8:02 AM |
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