A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future - Plot & Excerpts
Actually, it’s not me precisely. It’s a drawing of me, in which I’m both the subject and the artist. A self-portrait. Pretty awful, isn’t it? (And those nostrils? Don’t even ask.) I was never very good at drawing, so one week I decided to learn. But instead of enrolling in a conventional art class, I opted for an approach closer to the heart of this book: drawing on the right side of the brain, the method pioneered by Betty Edwards and described in her similarly titled book. The self-portrait above is like those “before” pictures in weight-loss ads. I drew it on the first day of class—before the instruction began. Five days later, as you’ll see later in this chapter, my artwork came out different. And in the process, I learned a lot about our next high-concept aptitude. Symphony, as I call this aptitude, is the ability to put together the pieces. It is the capacity to synthesize rather than to analyze; to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields; to detect broad patterns rather than to deliver specific answers; and to invent something new by combining elements nobody else thought to pair.
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