A Whole New Mind

At this point in the book (up to chapter 7) I have learned many things about R-directed thinking. The things that Pink says in his book are interesting. I think of myself as a more R-directed thinker, becasue I was always into the arts and reading and writing, which is why I am in the English field. It is interseting how Pink beleives that the future will be composed of more R-directed thinkers.

I like what Pink does at the end of the chapters starting with chapter 4. He relates back to the chapter and tells how the reader can get involved with projects that will trigger their right side of the brain. I like what he says to do about the design chapter (4). I have done this to a small extent, where I start drawing things which I see that I like. I have also tried to re-invent items that annoy me, but I have found that this is harder than just drawing things that I like. This actually made me think more adn put me into a more creative mind frame, but sometimes I would think to creative and the idea seemed a little farfetched after I finished. But in the end I found it to be a good excercise.

Chapter 5 discusses storytelling, and that people remember stories better with visual effects and acting them out. I can relate to this as well because I try and read a lot. When a movie comes out that was from a book, I almost always like the book more, because when reading a book, it lets me be creaive with how I perceive the story. When watching a movie in is through the view of the people who made it. An example of this would be the Harry Potter books and movies. I enjoyed the books so much more than I did the movies. Althought the movies were fun to watch and they were enjoyable, I believe that there can be no substiture for the actual book. I like the activities that Pink suggested at the end of this chapter better, because I am more of a reader and writer than I am a drawer. The mini-sagas that he suggested was fun to do, but as I did them I found them too short and I always eneded p going back to them and wanting to add more and more to them.

Chapter 6 refers to symphony, which was an interesting chapter as well. Going throught school and all the papers I had to write I was taught to analyze a lot, but with the more crative courses that I am taking in college the more I get to be creative and synthesize my work.

The boundary crossers was also interseting to learn about. Being about to do multiple things is amazing. It makes a person more interseting to me and I believe that person to be smarter. I am learning spanish currently, and I am thinking of taking spanish as a minor. It helps a lot that I have many friends who are native spanish speakers, so I constantly hear it and it is incorporated in my everyday life. I would love to be bilingual, especially with more spanish spaeking people in the United States and all over the world.

Overall, I am enjoying this book, and look foward to finishing it and seeing what else PInk has to say, and what little projects he has for me to do.

Spring Break

Hey everyone. Just came back from srping break as did everyone else. I hope everyone had a good time, I know I did. I went to North Carolina with Habitat for Humanity and it was a great time. We also went to D.C. on our way there and back and the whole trip was an amazing experience. Just wanted to say hi to everyone and get back into the blogging slowly.