A Whole New Mind

Pink, author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing and Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, presents the six essential abilities that are needed to succeed in today's information age. These abilities include right-brain thinking (artists, inventors, storytellers), synthesis (changing ideas into something completely new that others can use), imagination (making novel connections between what is and what might be), empathy (reading others' emotions so as to tailor your approach to them), storytelling (making complicated concepts clear and memorable) and visualizing (creating mental images that become real).