A Whole New Mind: Why Right-brainers Will Rule the Future

I really like the book that Paulina introduced today. Then I started to search this book and found chinese translation named: "未來在等待的人才". The book posits that the future of global business belongs to the right-brainers.

First the book outlines four major ages:

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  Agricultural Age (farmers)- 18th century
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  Industrial Age (factory workers)- 19th century
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  Information Age (knowledge workers)- 20th century
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  Conceptual Age (creators and empathizers)- 21st century

The fourth stage is where Pink focuses and how businesses can be successful. Then Pink also outlines six essential senses:

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  function→Design
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  argument→Story
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  focus→Symphony
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  logic→Empathy
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  seriousness→Play
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  accumulation→Meaning

The best of the six senses is STORY.

After Paulina presented, I recalled a left and right brain test  (test info from: http://blog.yam.com/cheng263/article/16200593 ). Looking the picture on that web, the girl turn clockwise or counter-clockwise?

If you see the girl turn clockwise, you use right brain. If you see the girl turn counter-clockwise, you use left brain.

I showed the test to both of Taiwan and foreign students. Most of the foreigner can see clockwise and counter-clockwise, and most of Taiwan's students "only" or "often" see clockwise. It's really interesting, right?