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    This document discusses the transition to a new era called the Conceptual Age, where high-concept and high-touch skills will be most valuable. It notes that the left brain is more suited for sequential analysis while the right brain focuses on context and big pictures. In the Conceptual Age, skills like design, storytelling, empathy and finding meaning will be important as jobs involving simple logic or routine tasks become automated or outsourced. Right brain capabilities for synthesizing new ideas and understanding human emotions and experiences will be key to thriving in this new age.

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    This document discusses the transition to a new era called the Conceptual Age, where high-concept and high-touch skills will be most valuable. It notes that the left brain is more suited for sequential analysis while the right brain focuses on context and big pictures. In the Conceptual Age, skills like design, storytelling, empathy and finding meaning will be important as jobs involving simple logic or routine tasks become automated or outsourced. Right brain capabilities for synthesizing new ideas and understanding human emotions and experiences will be key to thriving in this new age.

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    These slides represent concepts from Dan Pink's book, A Whole New Mind.

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    This document discusses the transition to a new era called the Conceptual Age, where high-concept and high-touch skills will be most valuable. It notes that the left brain is more suited for sequential analysis while the right brain focuses on context and big pictures. In the Conceptual Age, skills like design, storytelling, empathy and finding meaning will be important as jobs involving simple logic or routine tasks become automated or outsourced. Right brain capabilities for synthesizing new ideas and understanding human emotions and experiences will be key to thriving in this new age.

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    A Whole New Mind

    Daniel H. Pink
    LEFT BRAIN RIGHT BRAIN

    ~ Controls right side of body ~ Controls left side of body

    ~ Sequential ~ Simultaneous

    ~ Specializes in text ~ Specializes in context

    ~ Analyzes the details ~ Synthesizes the big picture


    Abundance
    Asia
    Automation
    High Concept,
    High Touch
    1. Can someone overseas do it cheaper?

    2. Can a computer do it faster?

    3. Is what I’m offering in demand in an age of


    abundance?
    I see us being in the art business.
    Art, entertainment and mobile
    sculpture, which, coincidentally,
    also happens to provide
    transportation.

    Bob Lutz, GM
    The MFA is the
    new MBA.
    Not just function but also
    DESIGN
    Not just argument but also
    STORY
    Not just focus but also
    SYMPHONY
    Not just logic but also
    EMPATHY
    Not just seriousness but also
    PLAY
    Not just accumulation but also
    MEANING
    DESIGN -- a high-concept aptitude that is difficult
    to outsource or automate.

    STORY -- high touch because stories almost


    always pack an emotional punch.

    SYMPHONY -- perhaps most important as an anti-


    dote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth
    by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of
    our times.
    EMPATHY -- sometimes we need detachment;
    many other times we need attunement... the peo-
    ple who thrive will be those who can toggle be-
    tween the two.

    PLAY -- humor represents many aspects of the


    sophisticated thinking required in automated and
    outsourced times.

    MEANING -- adding the capacity for art and heart


    to our penchant for logic and analysis won’t be
    easy... few worthwhile things ever are.
    The Conceptual Age
    is here.

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