Journal Entry #8

I found what he was saying about the left side and the right side of the brain very interesting. David Pink was then able to intertwine those theories with out economy and life today. He talked about how we are going from a labor built economy where logical and sequential abilities were the very important to an economy where artistic, inventive, and creative abilities are the new focus. I can completely understand what he is trying to say here. If you think about education in general, we are asking our students to express their creativity, to invent or create through project based learning, and to express themselves through their work. As educators we are changing our style of teaching and what we teach to better prepare our students for the future! He continues throughout his speech making this point speaking about how "routine" work is on its way out of the economy. This makes sense as we are our broadening horizons and demanding more complex factors when it comes to services, products, and our economy in general.

I think David's perspective on our life and our economy if very interesting. He speaks of everything from factors and influences in our life to the cost of higher education. I like how we showed the differences and increases of technology used over the decades. He shows and speaks about how the amount of people increase in the use of technology. He speaks more from a business perspective explaining how one's reasoning behind buying the new advanced services and products.


I think that David's claim through his speeches is that as our scientist create new technologies and learn more about the human brain and so forth, the more our economy develops. He speaks about how we have changed in both our thinking and our way of life over the past decades. I think he does an excellent way of presenting these ideas.