|
In his book A Whole New Mind. Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Riverhead Trade, March 2006) Daniel H. Pink depicts six right brain aptitudes that may enhance life, learning and careers: Design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning.
| Right-brained qualities and expressions |
| Item | Quality Expression | Legend | Source |
| 1. | Design | Superseding function(ionality) to engage in patterns and senses. Design is a whole-minded skill, engineering and aesthetics. | Minute 26:17 |
| 2. | Story | Conveying ideas and promoting products and services works better by narratives, not just by arguments. Facts are less valuable since anyone can google them on the Internet. Commercials and movies tell stories, give series of episodes, which deliver facts with impact. Story is more effective because that is how humans operate. Communication counts, saying things well is a valued skill. | Minute 36:31 |
| 3. | Symphony | Ability to see the big picture thinking (not just detail focus), adding invention (creativity). Seeing the big picture, filtering out meaningful currents from the host of information, combining two things into something new. The challenge is to team-teaching and to unleash and see the practicality of multi- and interdisciplinary approaches that combine e.g. biology and philosophy. Abstract abilities, like literacy or numeracy, become feasible given the proper environment, context, setting. | Minute 45:40 |
| 4. | Empathy | Superseding logic and engaging in feeling and intuition. | |
| 5. | Play | Bringing humor and light-heartedness to work, business and products. | |
| 6. | Meaning | Context, significance, immaterial abstract feelings and values and impact of situations, people and products. | |
|