STORY
In this part of the book by Daniel Pink he discusses how stories are easier to remember than facts. Stories are how we remember. Our experiences and our knowledge is all organized as stories.
Stories amuse; facts illuminate.
Stories divert; facts reveal.
Stories are for cover; facts are for real.
Pink goes on to say stories exist where high concepts and high touches intersect. Story is the high concept because it sharpens our understanding of one thing by showing it in the context of something else.
He goes on throughout this section explaining how stories are emotional with his need to tell us the story of a variation of Joseph Campbell's story "the hero's journey." Many people can retell a story rather than read a manufacturers manual as well. Pink goes on to tell other stories of businesses and hospitals with doctors and how the story of healing patients is so powerful.
He ends this section of story with we must listen to each others stories and that we are each the authors of our own lives.
Daniel Pink has also listed seven of the best festivals for checking out websites of storytelling festivals the amazing stories that authors have written the fascinating people who wrote them. He also listed many book titles we should try and check out and read some time in the future.
SYMPHONY
The next section of Daniel Pink's book is about symphony, which is the ability to put together the pieces which is part of the attribute of the right brain's hemisphere. Symphonic thinking is mainly the ability of composers and conductors who perform and produce unified sounds that are pleasing to hear.
One of the things that Pink describes in this section is symphony is a way to learn to draw, a skill such as a self-portrait he demonstrates what happened to him in his art class. Drawing is about seeing, the goal is to trick the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere can work. The Left hemisphere won't know what the Right hemisphere is doing.
The chapter on how Reese's peanut butter cups came together with R-Directed thinkers understanding the logic of this sugary concoction is interesting of how it was invented. As Pink explains how combining two existing ideas that no one else had thought to unite until then.
He continues to discuss how the composers and conductors have a variety of many responsibilities as they try to make sure all the instructions work and are performing in perfect relationship with each other.
I thought while reading this the section on a recent study of self-made millionaires and how such a high amount of them are dyslexic. Dyslexics have difficulty with L-Directed thinking skills. They are able to see the big picture and are capable of problem-solving. Business people and poets seem to be able to see the big picture as well in their careers.
Pink ends this section with his sketch of himself as he took a drawing class and tried to use his thought processes to produce the big picture of himself. It was personally interesting to see as I had read this and think saw him in one of the videos we watched earlier in this class and I could pick him out right away just from his 'big picture sketch.'
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