Faith Venture

The publicist sent an early copy of a book for me to review. Wisdom Factory by Tim Dasey, Ph.D. He is an MIT professor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) thinking about the future of work. 

I’ve not finished it, yet, but I just waded through a chapter on left brain/right brain physiology. You may have heard about left brain detail-oriented analytical thinking and right brain generalist whole scene thinking. Of course, it’s more complicated than that, but we needn’t delve further.

Dasey’s argument is that we need less detail-oriented analytical thinking (not none, just less) like your typical engineer, I guess and more what he calls wisdom or thinking more generally about why rather than what. Future workers—and not only managers—will need to incorporate more wisdom into their work.

Have you observed the phenomenon of detail-oriented versus big picture amongst people in the religious or spiritual life?

Some people have memorized huge chunks of the Bible, yet seem to have missed the theme. They know lots of “what” and little “why.”

Even worse than missing the “why” is failing to infuse the why into everyday life.

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