A Whole New Mind: The Middle Way

After finished the first half of this book "A Whole New Mind" by daniel H.Pink, I found some points that I cannot agree with the writer. I fully understand what the point that the writer want to sell and I strongly agree that the ability to see the big picture and creativity are so important not only today but for the whole period of our human development. The target audiences for this book of course Americans so I am not the target audience for this book.The way the writer try to claim why the right brain directed thinking is so important for this era or what he calls "Conceptual age" by blaming the abundant of goods,machines that can replace the human,and the cheaper wage labors in the developing countries in Asia.I don't think this is a good opening to the selling point.I think most people can answer these questions:
- Who created the intelligent machines that can produce a ton of product and can do the job that human used to do faster and cheaper?
- Who decided to relocate the factories or outsourcing some works to the developing countries in order to make more profit and use the natural resources from the poor countries and of course left all the pollution over there as well.

Another point, I think the thing he call the right brain directed thinking is not anything new and it's not just become more important this day.These kind of abilities: seeing the big pictures,sense of beauty,designing,creativity,etc., have been part of mankind since the ancient period.Think about how can the Egyptians from 3,000 - 5,000 years ago were able to create one of the most amazing architectures and what about their technique to preserved the body for new life after death.This can prove that this kind of thinking ability played the important role since the early civilization.

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From agriculture age to industrial age,then from industrial age to information, and from information age to conceptual age, all the movement from stage to another were always driven from the new innovation in that time.Don't the new innovations come from someone imagination and the strong believe that his or her crazy idea is possible?

I do not believe that the right brain people will rule the future. Yes right brain functions are very important but we still need the left brain persons.We need a balance between these two skills and I am sure a lot of us already good at both and we just have to choose what kind of skill we need in the particular job and situation.If we realize that one of our skill is weaker than another, how can we strengthen that skill.Finally,if we cannot develop or improve the weaker skill, then learn to work with other people that can complement us.The bottom line is we only need the middle way, we need a balance for both inside each of us and balance in our whole society.