Soul Strand

Spread Your Creative Wings Angel

Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning.  These six senses increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world.  Many of you no doubt welcome such a change.  But to some of you, this vision might seem dreadful – a hostile takeover of normal life by a band of poseurs in black unitards who will leave behind the insufficiently arty and emotive.  Fear not.  The high – concept, high – touch abilities that now matter most are fundamentally human attributes.  After all, back on the savannah, our cave – person ancestors weren’t taking SATs or plugging numbers into spreadsheets.  But they were telling stories, demonstrating empathy, and designing innovations.  These abilities have always comprised part of what it means to be human.  But after a few generations in the Information Age, these muscles have atrophied.  The challenge is to work them back into shape.  Anyone can master the six Conceptual Age senses.  But those who master them first will have a huge advantage (A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink, p.67).