I loved this article on Wired “Revenge of the Right Brain”:
“…the curtain is rising on a new era, the Conceptual Age. If the Industrial Age was built on people’s backs, and the Information Age on people’s left hemispheres, the Conceptual Age is being built on people’s right hemispheres. We’ve progressed from a society of farmers to a society of factory workers to a society of knowledge workers. And now we’re progressing yet again – to a society of creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers.”
I found myself nodding vigorously throughout this article. For the longest time I’ve felt that the moniker of knowledge worker didn’t adequately describe the work that I did. I’m not a knowledge worker. I’m a meaning maker. Excuse me while I update my resume.
Hell yes! Loved this quote from the article extolling the virtues of “the capacity to empathize, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one’s self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning.”
I’m glad to know there are others who don’t believe our working lives are defined as being in one mode or the other. Pigeon holes and limited vision. Bah!