Reviews for A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

The average rating for A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-05-23 00:00:00 Eric Pettigrew I hate this book and want to set it on fire. No, seriously. Daniel Pink takes a bunch of self-evident ideas, hammers them togethers with some feel-good rationale, and writes a pampered, whiny how-to of middle class comfort telling us to use our right brains to stay competitive and maintain our middle class relevance. His examples are trite and his sources appalling--looking at the selections at your local suburban Target is not the way of justifying your belief in a culture of abundance, you self-important ass. Since he takes forever to get to it, I'll sum up Pink's points quickly. "Globalization is upon us. You may be frightened. Well, my friend, the times are a changing. We have three new, scary frontiers: Abundance, Automation, and--I kid you not--Asia. Asia. Seriously. The whole friggin' continent. ASIA!!! BEWARE. Jeez. Honestly, this one of the most vacuous, self-absorbed things I've ever been forced to read. I had to read it for a work project, and I've never been more displeased by reading. And I've read four Dickens novels against my will.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-06-16 00:00:00 Leo Calica If you have read anything about the rise if design in business, ignore this book. I was assigned it for school and basically was able to skip the entire thing. I was disappointed my program assigned this.14 years ago, at publish time, this was ground breaking. Now: table stakes. TL;DR: creativity is an essential skill as it will be the last thing automated, and it is what drives breakthroughs. If you find this ^ intriguing or surprising, read the book. If not, skip to the "portfolio" chunks of section 2. There, Pink outlines different exercises broken down by concept: design, story, symphony, empathy, play, meaning. The ideas are worth trying. The rest of the reading is not.