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
demure…
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
demure…
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 Pennsylvania
the early 60’s, to prepare
for his law boards.
treating paralyzed auto-crash
victims, re-patterning their
brains, activating new synapses by starting all over with
crawling —four people, each working one paralyzed limbs
going though the motions. Making a whole new mind.
brains, activating new synapses by starting all over with
crawling —four people, each working one paralyzed limbs
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.
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