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  • Play adds more Meaning to our Lives. How?

    Play adds more Meaning to our Lives. How?

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    What was the last thing you did for play or fun?
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    Ever since I read Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind, I have tried approaching my work in such a way that I enjoy every bit of it. Play in work or life adds more meaning to our lives and removes distress and anxiety.

    Play is an essential aspect to turn any boring or mundane work to meaningful work that leads to fulfillment.

    Research shows that people who treat work as play lead more meaningful and fulfilling lives free of strife and tension.

    To understand how play makes us more efficient at work read this insightful blog post:

    How can PLAY make us MORE EFFICIENT at WORK?
  • Why should you master these Six Right Brain Senses?

    Why should you master these Six Right Brain Senses?

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    What skills or lessons have you learned recently?
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    Daniel Pink very rightly mentions in A Whole New Mind that our economy is moving to a stage wherein we need to master the six most important right brain senses. Hence learning these skills is something I have taken a stab at recently.

    As our economy moves along, left brain skills are being overshadowed by right brain skills.

    Listed below are the six right brain senses which assume utmost importance in the modern day:

    1. Design
    2. Story
    3. Symphony
    4. Empathy
    5. Play
    6. Meaning
    RIGHT BRAIN SKILLS to make you INDISPENSABLE.
  • My top Five Motivational Books

    My top Five Motivational Books

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    Share five things you’re good at.
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    The five things I am good at are by virtue of reading my top five motivational books, mentioned in UPPER CASE below.

    1. Leading life with an infinite mindset – THE INFINITE GAME by Simon Sinek
    2. Realized that feeling of togetherness indeed makes us human – TOGETHER IS BETTER by Simon Sinek
    3. Understood how to make best use of right brain skills – A WHOLE NEW MIND by Daniel Pink
    4. How to develop good habits and get rid of not so good habits – THE POWER OF HABIT by Charles Duhigg
    5. The secret sauce for telling compelling stories and communicating in the best possible manner – THE STORYTELLER’S SECRET by Carmine Gallo

    Books we all know are our real friends. These books bear ample testimony to the same.

  • Why should you join a LAUGHTER CLUB?

    Why should you join a LAUGHTER CLUB?

    The best part of a city to go at any time is a LAUGHTER CLUB. I will explain in this post why you should join a laughter club.

    There is a an emerging need of laughter clubs due to piling stress and anxiety in our lives.

    Research has proven that the reason laughter clubs are so effective is that they make us PLAYFUL and active the RIGHT side of our brain.

    In essence such an exercise makes us more creative.

  • RIGHT BRAIN SKILLS to make you INDISPENSABLE.

    RIGHT BRAIN SKILLS to make you INDISPENSABLE.

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    What skill would you like to learn?
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    I would like to learn right brain skills to make myself indispensable.

    In the age of AI, ML, Robotics learning right brain skills (namely the following 6 skills) is the only way to ensure that our skills remain relevant.

    All left brain skills are easy to replicate and automate thus making such skills easy to replace.

    These are the 6 top right brain skills to learn and hone. Inspired from Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind.

    1. Design
    2. Story
    3. Symphony
    4. Empathy
    5. Play
    6. Meaning
    The SIX RIGHT BRAIN SKILLS that you MUST MASTER.
  • Nurturing Right Brain Skills

    Nurturing Right Brain Skills

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    What details of your life could you pay more attention to?
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    In this age of automation with AI and ML dominating, nurturing of right brain skills is something I want to pay more attention to.

    Left Brain skills which have ruled the industrial age are slowly becoming redundant with sophisticated automation techniques and cheap labor now able to replace all such tasks. Hence in order to remain relevant in this modern conceptual age, it is quintessential to develop and nurture right brain skills.

    Some curated insights from Daniel Pink’s book, A Whole New mind, highlighting the same aspects has been provided below:

    The SIX RIGHT BRAIN SKILLS that you MUST MASTER.
    Why are LEFT BRAIN SKILLS not longer SUFFICIENT?
  • How can PLAY make us MORE EFFICIENT at WORK?

    How can PLAY make us MORE EFFICIENT at WORK?

    Can Play make us More Efficient at Work?

    This fascinating insight inspired from Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind shows an example wherein research proves that Play can indeed make us more efficient at work.

  • What makes SYNTHESIS more important than ANALYSIS?

    What makes SYNTHESIS more important than ANALYSIS?

    Is Synthesis more important than Analysis?

    This wonderful insight inspired from Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind, highlights how synthesis is more important than analysis.

    Symphony as a skill is thus growing in importance and demand.

  • How does the CONSTRUCT of GRATITUDE VISIT look like?

    How does the CONSTRUCT of GRATITUDE VISIT look like?

    Understanding the Construct of a Gratitude Visit

    The following insight inspired from Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind, details out the construct of a gratitude visit.

  • HOMO SAPIENS to HOMO LUDENS

    HOMO SAPIENS to HOMO LUDENS

    The Journey from Homo Sapiens to Homo Ludens

    Man’s journey from Homo Sapiens to Homo Ludens has been aptly captured in this insight from Daniel Pink’s best seller.

    In his book A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink mentions that from Man the Thinker human beings are evolving to Man the Player.

    The reason for the same is that PLAY assumes a lot of importance in our modern day lives.

    As mentioned in the below insight thus man is making this transition, thanks to the growing importance of RIGHT BRAIN.

    To read another such insightful post from the same book please visit:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/are-you-replaceable-answer-three-simple-questions/

    In case you have still not read A Whole New Mind, would highly encourage you to read this book:

    https://www.amazon.in/Whole-New-Mind-Right-Brainers-Future/dp/1594481717