A WHOLE NEW MIND
title of a book by Dan Pink
anyone can google and listen
to him talk about the schizo-
phrenic split between “left”
& “right” brain values and
the linear/non-linear kind
of talk that’s been popular
since the 60’s.
We are shifting from the
Informational Age to an
emerging Conceptual Age
—where an MFA degree
may eventually offer an
environmental edge over
an MBA., says Pink,
though state legislators
and test-based account-
ability experts & SAT
influence and such will…
Yadda
Yadda
Yadda
You know where this is going.
On the one hand: you straight
arrow, conscientious critical
thinking, spread-sheet artists,
assessmental geniuses, grounded
Get R Done-ers, sequential &
consequential addicts,
chrono-logicians,
lucid schemers
and good
citizens .
On the other hand: not.
I had a friend who crawled
though
the early 60’s, to prepare for
his law boards.
Delagado was having success
treating paralyzed auto-crash
victims, re-pattering their brains,
activating new synapses by
starting all over with crawling
—four people, each working
one paralyzed limb: going
though the motions.
My friend figured he might
light-up new networks re-
learning to crawl.
I tried a variant —switching
writing-hands left to right,
mixing the dominance
convinced it would fire
up my corpus callosum,
yin-yanger regulator
negotiating the hemispheres,
& make me a smarter man..
It did—but now I can’t get
along with anyone.
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