A Whole New Mind

After reading Daniel H. Pink's book A Whole New Mind, I decided to take the author's advice and try one of the many suggestions to help me develop a sense of design by reading a Oprah Winfrey's design magazine, O Magazine.

Pink suggested that by reading a design magazine, my eyes would be sharpened to the knew "sense" and that by reading the piece, I would quite possibly be inspired by what I saw.

After following Pink's proposal, I could not agree more.

As I sat and read O Magazine, I took a moment to notice all the designs that we have around us everyday. As Pink pointed out, almost everything that surrounds me was designed by someone. And why did that someone design it?

Someone designed, for example, the mirror in Oprah's house so that the beautiful work would sell on the market. As I learned in the book, it is not simply enough anymore to just have a mirror that is plain Jane. The mirror must be a work of art.

Anyone can have a mirror. But not just anyone can have Oprah's mirror that can, with the click of a button, be transformed into an area for a plasma television.

Having realized what design really is has shown me a knew way of thinking.

I now know that in the music industry that I would love to become a part of, I will have to have something no one else can replicate. I will have to march to the beat of my own drum. I will have to know how to craft the words of a poem into a magical song that listeners can relate to.

Thanks to pink, I can now see what changes need to be made for me to be successful in future endeavors.