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WHAT:  Digging Deeper XLV: A Whole New Mind
WHO:  Led by Mark Jensen
WHEN:  Monday, April 7 & 14, 2008 -- 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
WHERE:  Mandolin Café, 3923 South 12th St., Tacoma, WA 98405

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United for Peace
of Pierce County (WA)
Study Circle:
April 7 & 14, 2008
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DIGGING DEEPER XLV: A WHOLE NEW MIND

Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind, currently #17 on the New York Times paperback bestseller list, proposes that human culture is undergoing an historic shift, from “left-brain” dominance (computers can do those things better anyway) to “right-brain” dominance. Pink’s message: after the Information Age, the Conceptual Age!

A week after Digging Deeper XLV’s Apr. 7 discussion A Whole New Mind, there will be a chance to speak with the author: Daniel Pink will appear and talk about his work at the Mandolin Café on the evening of Monday, April 14.

—Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005; paperback 2006).  --  “Just as information workers surpassed physical laborers in economic importance, Pink claims, the workplace terrain is changing yet again, and power will inevitably shift to people who possess strong right brain qualities. His advocacy of ‘R-directed thinking’ begins with a bit of neuroscience tourism to a brain lab that will be extremely familiar to those who read Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open, but while Johnson was fascinated by the brain's internal processes, Pink is more concerned with how certain skill sets can be harnessed effectively in the dawning ‘Conceptual Age.’ The second half of the book details the six ‘senses’ Pink identifies as crucial to success in the new economy—design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning-while ‘portfolio’ sections offer practical (and sometimes whimsical) advice on how to cultivate these skills within oneself. Thought-provoking moments abound-from the results of an intensive drawing workshop to the claim that ‘bad design’ created the chaos of the 2000 presidential election-but the basic premise may still strike some as unproven. Furthermore, the warning that people who don’t nurture their right brains ‘may miss out, or worse, suffer’ in the economy of tomorrow comes off as alarmist. But since Pink’s last big idea (Free Agent Nation) has become a cornerstone of employee-management relations, expect just as much buzz around his latest theory.” —Publishers Weekly.

MEETING SCHEDULE -- Mondays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Mandolin Café, 3923 S. 12th St., Tacoma, WA.

No charge for participation. Some copies available for purchase or loan. Contact: Mark Jensen (jensenmk@plu.edu; 253-756-7219).

Regular meetings of United for Peace of Pierce County are held at 6:30 p.m. on 1st Thursdays and at 7:00 p.m. on 3rd Thursdays at First Congregational Church, 209 S. “J” St., Tacoma, WA.

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United for Peace
of Pierce County (WA)
Study Circle:
April 7 & 14, 2008
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