A Whole New Mind

So I don't know who has read any of this book yet. But I read it and I have too say it was very interesting. I picked up on a lot of neat facts that I would probably never learn in my life.

As the book points out we are entering a new age, the conceptual age. This age is animated by a different form of thinking and a higher approach to life. In the book Pink mentions two concepts high concept and high touch. The reason I want to mention them here is because I find these two terms to be extremely fascinating. High concept involves the capacity to detect patterns and opportunities. It focuses on creating artistic and emotional beauty and combine seeming unrelated ideas into something NEW. High touch is similar but it involves the ability to empathize with others (human interaction). To find joy in one's self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond to find meaning/purpose. The book is actually these two terms!
IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT...YOU SHOULD!!! :-)

Just another couple of things. Did you know the brain consists of some 100 billion cells. Or that self-storage- a business devoted to providing people a place to house their extra stuff- has become a 17 billion dollar annual industry in the United States, larger than the motion picture business (and it is continuing to grow). Or even the fact that India's colleges and universities produce about 350,000 engineering graduates. That is why in 2008 more than half the Fortune 500 companies now outsource software work to India.

Those are just some of the interesting facts I picked up from reading A Whole New Mind...