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Story - Daniel Plink - A Whole New mind

6/23/2010

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People often ask me why I love history - I said that History is the same as Theatre.  It is all about telling a story.  This is what part of the arts is all about.  Telling a story and making connections.  Often students take the Arts as a " easier" optoption or because parent's don't see the value of it.   Daniel Pink highlights the importance of the story.  It also makes me think about what we have all lost in the drive for money and so called success.

P102 – Joesph Campbell – 1949 – book The Hero with a thousand Faces – all myths – across time and culture – contain the basic ingredients and follow the same recipes – there are no new stories – just the same stories retold

Hero’s journey – Departure – hears the call refuses and then accepts crosses into a new world, Initiation – faces still challenges – gets a mentor – be transforms and return – master of two worlds

Robert McKee – book – Story: Substance, structure, Style and principles of screenwriting

Advertising – story writing – big business

P 106 Steve Denning – World Bank story – story telling doesn’t replace analytical thinking – it supplements it by enabling us to imagine new perspectives and new worlds  - abstract analysis is easier to understand when told through the lens of a well chosen story

P 106 – Richard Olivier – “ Mythodrama” – his clients read Shakespeare to elicit lessons in leadership and corporate governance

P107 - Alan Kay -  “ We are all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us a story”

Enable to distinguish goods and services in the market place – marketing – house sales; wine sales

Narrative medicine – stories – that is how people make sense of what is happening to them when they are sick

P112 – Barry Lopez – Arctic Dreams – if stories come to you, care for them.  And learn to give them away where they are needed.  Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

P117 – mini Sagas – 50 words beginning, middle and end

www.storycorps.net   www.storycentre.org Australian national Storytelling confest; www.dstory.com; www.lanes.org


P122 – Story is an ancient art – but like all art it can be enhances with modern tools


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Daniel Pink - A Whole New Mind - Design

6/21/2010

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Having a husband that teaches Design there were lots of important aspects.  However i truely understood the impact of Theatre in design.   Of course students design in drama/theatre.  They create and use their skills to develop something "new" - their own version of something.  It is not only people skills and communication that the arts facilitates but also the whole design process.  Students can be involved in all aspects - costume, stage, make up, set design.   My sister is the classic example of this.  She completed a Theatre degree and is now in New York working as a Event designer.  She can see the overall picture and see how it all comes together - much like a theatre production.

Some interesting points about Design -
P69- John Heskett – “{D}esign, stripped to its essence, can be defined as the human nature to shape and make our environment in ways without precedent in nature, to serve our needs and give meaning to our lives”  John Heskett, Toothpicks and Logos – design in Everyday life, Oxford university Press, 2002

Design has consequences – health care; learning; environmental benefits; Al Gore/GW Bush election;
Design – the differences of selling an item.

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Daniel Pink - A Whole New Mind - The start

6/21/2010

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This a new book that I am reading - I think it has lots of interesting points
  Pink, Daniel, H A Whole New Mind, New York, RiverHead Books -Penguin Group 2005. Print ISBN – 1 – 57322-308-5

P1 – The future belongs to very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.  These people – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big pictures thinkers – will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joy.

P17

1.    The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body; the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body

2.     L H is sequential; R H is simultaneous

3.     LH specializes in text; the R H specializes in context – RH is responsible for understanding metaphors

4.      L H analyses the details; R H synthesizes the big picture

P28 Abundance, Asia and Automation

P 51 three questions – 1. Can someone overseas do it cheaper? 2. Can a computer do it faster?  3 is what I am offering in demand in an age of abundance?

 P 55 more Americans today work in arts, entertainment and design than work as lawyers, accountants and auditors – “2002 National Cross Industry Estimates of employment and Mean Annual Wage for SOC Major Occupational groups” Occupational Employment Statistics Program, Bureau of labor Statistics – www.bls.gov/oes/home.htm

  P 61 aptitudes “the six senses”. Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning.

  P65

1.     Not just function but also Design – must be beautiful or emotionally engaging

2.     Not just argument – story – p 66 the essence of persuasion, communication and self understanding

3.     Focus – symphony – seeing the big picture, crossing boundaries

4.     Logic – empathy – to understand what makes their fellows tick, forge relationships and to care for others

5.     Play – need to play – best bosses have humour

6.     Meaning

 




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