Daniel Pink: Living on the Right Side of Your Brain

I came cross a special today about Daniel Pink's theory of right-brain thinking. He is considered an expert in the field (although himself a left brian thinker) and talks about what he believes are the three main differences between right and left brain thinkers.

Left Hemisphere:

- sequential

- text oriented

- analysis the details

Right Hemisphere:

- all at once

- context oriented

- synthesizes the big picture

He then goes on to talk about what he considers the six abilities that are the most important for our future. These six abilities being: design, storytelling, symphony (pattern recognition), empathy, and play. He believes that these skills are going to be essential to our progress and these are the skills that most right brain people posses and the skills that left brain thinkers should start to learn. 

Click here for a link to the video. It's about an hour and fifteen minutes so make sure you have some time.