Symphony of A Whole New Mind

Focus, specialization, and analysis has been important in the "information age," but in the "conceptual age" that shifts to synthesis and the ability to pick up some things differently and shaping them into one. This talent called 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 invent something new by combining elements nobody else thought to pair."
Daniel Pink

The best presenters are those who are able to see the relationship between relationships. Symphony requires us to become better at seeing, really seeing with a new way. This entails recognizing the underlying pattern, a skilled seeing of nuances and simplicity of the creation. And for me a symphony is about logic, analysis, and intuition to understand a thing.
And from the things I wrote above, why will symphony play an important role in the life of the 21st century?
The differences that exist on this world are striking. There are culture, tradition, race, religion, and many problems that resulted in a variety of information. In response to it, what we need is create thinking that the distinction is not a worst thing, but a new door to get into the diversity and the beauty.
In 1966, in Indonesia, there lived a music maestro named Mang Udjo. At that time there has been great debate between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines about the origin of Angklung from, traditional music instrument. He really knew that Angklung was truly originally from Indonesia. He knew this because Angklung came from language of Bali (one of the areas in Indonesia). Seeing this, he changed Angklung from pentatonic tone to be diatonic tone. After that time the world recognized that angklung came from Indonesia.

This logo is a symbol that I created a year ago to name my band. This logo ‘IQ’ explains the birds are always flying high. When they are tired, they rest in high places as well. This symbolizes that the band IQ will always be on top. Praise God, after we use this symbol, we often won music competition, and we also often go to have shows around the Java Island. Maybe it's just a luck.


In "A Whole New Mind," explains that one of the trademarks of the Conceptual Age is the outsourcing of traditional white-collar jobs such as law, accounting, and engineering to less-expensive overseas workers, particularly in Asia. But as he points out, you can't outsource creativity.
It is same with what Friedman said in The World is Flat that knowledge, skills, ideas, motivation, would become dominant power. We have to be untouchable. This means cannot be outsourced. We can be a big picture people. We can see from another viewpoint. We have to be brave to make a symphony.
So when we look at one point, try to look more, maybe there is another point that's perhaps the most important point.

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