A whole new mind : why right-brainers will rule the future /
Daniel H. Pink.
- 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2006.
- 275 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
"Updated with new material"--Cover. "First Riverhead hardcover edition: March 2005"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1: The conceptual age -- Right brain rising -- Abundance, Asia, and automation -- High concept, high touch -- 2: The six senses -- Introducing the six senses -- Design -- Story -- Symphony -- Empathy -- Play -- Meaning.
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.