Below is the first paragraph of A Whole New Mind. Pink is able in these three sentences to illustrate how routine tasks perfected by knowledge workers are giving way in this flat world to people who can combine left-brained analytical skills with his new six senses because the level of creativity and synthesis that the Conceptual Age requires is not outsourceable.
So, do we believe this? How can we develop those right brain skills in ourselves and in our students?
"The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind -- computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers – will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest rewards."
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