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A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
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Sales rank 11,634
Customers rating (based on 256 reviews)
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Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. That's the argument at the center of this provocative and original book, which uses the two sides of our brains as a metaphor for understanding the contours of our times. In the tradition of Emotional Intelligence and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Daniel H. Pink offers a fresh look at what it takes to excel. A Whole New Mind reveals the six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend, and includes a series of hands-on exercises culled from experts around the world to help readers sharpen the necessary abilities. This book will change not only how we see the world but how we experience it as well.
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| Publisher | Riverhead Hardcover | | Release date | 03/2005 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Hardcover |
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 A Whole New Mind
The context of this book is spot on for parents nurturing developing young minds. We need to really move away from the old way of thinking (L-Directed thinking), and encourage the next generation to have an open approach to learning and leading. We need to grow the next generation of leaders and the suggestions in this book will give us a huge boost in doing that.
Kathy's Review
Very interesting and well written book. Easy to read. Totally recommend this one!
A top pick for business and general-interest libraries alike
For decades the key to surviving in the world has been left-brain thinking with careers keyed to lawyers, accountants and engineers. The future, former White House speechwriter Daniel Pink maintains, is in right-brain thinkers - designers, teachers, creative and empathic professions: A WHOLE NEW MIND tells how to stimulate and use right-brain thinking for maximum profit and achievement, and this audio receives a fine reading by author Pink himself. A top pick for business and general-interest libraries alike.
Something to chew on...
This is hardly a book of right-brain/left-brain pseudo-psychology. Rather, this is surprisingly tantalizing with its ideas about skill needed by the workforce of the future.
Not interested in employment skills? Retired? Still in school not looking for a job? This is also a good book for learning new ways to expand your life, increase your enjoyment of life, and augment your knowledge. Whatever your purpose for reading this book, you are in for a treat.
This is a very short read (I read it in about 4 hours or so), and it is true there are few details or solutions or step by step guides as to improving your right brain thinking, as other reviewers have mentioned. However, part of the point of the book is that training yourself and expanding the way you think needs to be your journey -- any more input from the author would have just been fluff.
As it is, I received some good things to think about, and "A Whole New Mind" points me in a new direction. The author also graciously recommended additional books on specific topics, and I'll happily check some of those out.
 A Whole New Mind
This is a very interesting book. It made me aware of our ever changing times and a new need for Right-brained thinkers. It was well written, with good examples and an easy way to understand this issue. I would highly recommend this nonfiction for mind expansion.
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