Pink---Symphony

First, I have to say I am really impressed by the five days right-brain drawing training. The author’s improvement was amazing! I think it is because he got the key to draw—learn to see relationships between space and negative space, between light and shadow, between angles and proportions. And then integrate these relationships into a whole. Therefore, learning how to draw is a great way to expand our capacity for symphony.

Symphony is the ability to put together the pieces. It is the capacity to synthesize rather than to analyze; to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields; to detect broad patterns rather than to deliver specific answers; and to detect broad patterns rather than to deliver specific answers; and to invent something new by combing elements nobody else thought to pair. People who hope to thrive in the conceptual age must have these abilities. And there are three types of people with the ability of symphony: the boundary crosser, the inventor, and the metaphor maker.

I think these three types of people are overlapped. As the “Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Theory of Innovation ”: “sometimes the most powerful ideas come from simply two existing ideas nobody else ever thought to unite.” At this point, the boundary crossers are more likely to combine different ideas for the reason that they know several different areas that are less related. If they have the ability to integrate these ideas, it could be highly possible for inventing new things. And in the time of abundance, when the largest rewards go to those who can devise novel and compelling creations, metaphor making is vital.

Metaphor is extremely important not only because it help us to succeed in conceptual age, but also it can help to understand others. Metaphorical imagination is essential in forging empathic connections and communicating experiences that others do not share. Moreover, it is a large part of self-understanding, it is the search for appropriate personal metaphors that make sense of our lives.