O lado direito do cérebro!

Por que é que a Skynet colocou Marcus Wright nas ruas? Para que um ciborgue com mente humana, pudesse fazer aquilo que nenhum máquina tinha conseguido até então.
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Como é que McGyver saía sempre das embrulhadas onde caía? Usando o lado direito do cérebro!!!
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Ainda ontem recordei as ideias de Pink.
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Pois bem cá vai algo que recebi num e-mail "The Pink Prescription: Facing Tomorrow's Challenges Calls for Right-brain Thinking"
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"Routine is a death sentence for the economy today," said Pink. "Any work that is routine is disappearing from not only this country but from any advanced economy."
Pink classified as routine any "work that can be reduced to a script, to a spreadsheet, to a formula, to a series of steps that has a right answer. If you can write down the steps and it has a right answer, that kind of work isn't valuable. That kind of work just races to wherever it can get done the cheapest."
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If routine work is not off-shored, much of it can be automated. Many Americans turned to cheap accountants in India to process last year's tax return, Pink pointed out. But a far greater number turned to software such as Turbo Tax.
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Finally, the increasing abundance of material goods has created another set of challenges that require big-picture, right-brain thinking.
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"In a world of abundance, in a world saturated with stuff... the economic premium is on giving people something new," Pink said. It is no longer enough to improve an existing product -- the real economic value lies in invention.
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"How many of you have an iPod?" Pink asked the audience, a majority of whom raised their hands. He continued: "How many of you knew eight years ago that you were missing an iPod?"
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His point: In a country where 98% of homes already have a color TV set, for example, coming up with a better color television is not an economic advance. "The real thing is to come up with hulu.com -- to deliver television in a way that nobody knew they were missing. These are big, bold, conceptual sorts of breakthroughs."
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The flip side of abundance is the collateral damage it creates -- such as the environmental impact of the 460,000 mobile phones thrown away in the U.S. every year, Pink added. Coping with such challenges will also require right-brained thinkers. "We need big, bold, inventive thinkers to address those problems, whether it's climate change, dependence on oil or wealth imbalance."
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Pink noted that many right-brain abilities -- such as design, storytelling, synthesis, empathy and pattern recognition -- are difficult to outsource, so people who are strong in these abilities could find their skills in demand.
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Even traditionally left-brain oriented professions are now demanding right-brain skills, Pink said. Companies seeking engineers say they want people with engineering skills who can innovate, communicate, thrive in a multicultural environment and work with a sense of passion, to name a few. "These are not the cognitive skills that you develop through multiple-choice tests. These are not routine things.
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"Doctors have to be able to ask the right questions," said Pink. "That calls for extraordinary observation skills -- the observation skills of a painter, of a sculptor. So, medical schools are taking students to art museums to make them better diagnosticians. And, lo and behold, doctors who receive this type of diagnostic training are better diagnosticians than those who haven't."
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Pink calls the results of these experiments "a great irony" for the educational system as a whole. "We want to prepare kids for science-oriented careers, so we cut out the arts. Meanwhile, people who are preparing for science-oriented careers are bringing in the arts.""
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Continua, com alguns truques que aprendi para aumentar a criatividade.