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, says Dan: where an MFA
degree may eventually offer an environmental edge
over an MBA., 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,
assess-mental geniuses, grounded
Get R Done-ers, sequential & consequential
addicts, chrono-logicians, lucid schemers and
good citizens .
On the other hand: not.
...............
The ancient dichotomy between Imagination and Reason,
Taking Care of Business and Putting IT in Play
The non-linear (constellational) simultaneous
all-at-once-ness VERSUS the linear
(straight arrow-of-purpose &
measurable objectives.) and
why can't they Just Get
Along?
In gas chromatography a very small sample of turpentine
is injected into a heated injection port. The turpentine is
vaporized by the heat and is carried by an inert gas into
the column. When the turpentine is being carried by the gas.
The turpentine is in the mobile phase. The gas chromatography
column is coated , on the interior, with a thin layer
of high boiling liquid. This is called the stationary phase.
As the turpentine and carrier gs move though the column,
the components of turpentine dissolve in the stationary
phase. They then re-vaporize and move further down the
column before dissolving into the stationary phase again.
This happens many, many times and because some components
are more soluble in the stationary phase and some are
less soluble, a separation occurs. This is called partitioning,
and because it happens so many time in the column, a
good separation occurs.... .
I had a friend who crawled though Pennsylvania fields in
the early 60’s, to prepare for his law boards.
A Dr. in Philadelphia named 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. Making a whole new mind.
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.
Oprah gave a copy of this book to each member of
the graduating class at Standford last spring—where
she gave commencement address (as well as
A Whole New Mind)—one of her philanthropic
service projects of which she is well known..
xxxooo, Sam
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