China Kapitel eins
Durch Ernie Tadla
Was mir geschah, während ich dieses Buch schrieb.
„OH-, Osten ist Ost, und Westen ist West,
und nie trifft das twain,
Bis Masse und Himmel momentan an stehen
Großer Urteil-Sitz des Gottes;
Aber es gibt weder Osten noch West,
Rand noch Brut noch Geburt,
Wenn zwei starke Männer vertraulich stehen,
obwohl sie kommen von den Enden der Masse!“
Rudyard Kipling, 1889
Als ich nach China ging, hatte ich eine negative, self-righteous Ansicht aller chinesischen Sachen. Es war eine communistic, gottlose Diktatur. Wir waren einerseits eine kapitalistische, demokratische, christliche Gesellschaft.
So nach sieben Jahren, folgte Frustration, Schmerz von einigen ernsten inneren Gesprächen, änderte ich mein Paradigma und erlaubte mich, viele positive Sachen über die chinesische Weise zu entdecken.
Ich kam nach Kanada zurück und schrieb dieses Buch von meiner frischen, neuen chinesischen Perspektive. Mein Herausgeber, Ross Freake, geholt zu meiner Aufmerksamkeit, daß ich jetzt die westliche Weise heftig schlug, da ich früh die chinesische Weise heftig geschlagen hatte. Ich war mit dem Stockholm Syndrom angesteckt worden. Sie lesen jetzt eine komplette Neuausgabe mit einer änderung in der Haltung und im Paradigma, aber nicht zurück zu, was es vorher war; es würde keinen Gewinn in dem geben.
Durch synchronicity empfing ich eine Hauptoffenbarung.
Es ist das Konzept der Vollständiggehirn Integration.
Das Folgen sind die Unterschiede zwischen den zwei Gehirnhemisphären.
| Die linke Hemisphäre | Die rechte Hemisphäre |
| verwendet Logik/Grund | verwendet Intuition/Gefühle |
| denkt in den Wörtern | thinks in pictures and stories |
| deals in parts/specifics | deals in wholes/relationships |
| will analyze/break apart | will synthesize/put together |
| thinks sequentially | thinks holistically |
| is time bound | is time free |
| is extroverted | is introverted |
| is characterized as male | is characterized as female |
| identifies with the individual | identifies with the group |
| is ordered/controlled | is spontaneous/free |
While our Western society and our education system emphasizes the left brain approach, it is important to learn how to create balance and peace with both sides of the brain.
analysis and synthesis
reasoning and intuition
extroversion and introversion
outer and inner
male and female
friend and enemy
capitalism and communism
My a-ha! The West is left-brain and the East is right brain!
Our actual brain structure includes the corpus callosum, a band of nerve fibers that bridges the two hemispheres. Interestingly, the female corpus callosum has 33 per cent more neurons than the male. That leads us to suppose that the female integrates both sides better than the male. Maybe that is why women can multi-task better than us guys.
East, West, left, right, wrong, right: which is best, which is right?
“..and never the twain shall meet,” or is it possible to meet?
This book is my story about how they did meet for me!
I believe the right way for humanity is to balance, to integrate the best parts of both. Instead of yes-but, it is yes-and.
Might this kind of thinking help us in our desperate search for world peace? Let us build bridges of balance to harmony, prosperity and peace.
Ernie Tadla, www.odysseychina.net
Next week: Chapter Two: Apprehension and Trepidation.
How we got to go to China.
| From the book: How to Live and Do Business in China: Eight Lessons I Learned from the Communists. Ranked #4 on Amazon’s China business books category of over 570 titles. The first eight chapters of the book explain my personal experiences in settling into living in Shanghai. The second eight chapters are the Lessons I learned about how to do successful business in China. I have just completed sharing these lessons on this blog and they can be referenced through the archives. The last six chapters consist of the case histories of Microsoft, Wal Mart, VW, DMG, an example of one expat who didn’t make the transition and a summary chapter. |
November 22nd, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I think this article over-idiomizes the difference between eastern and western culture as some biological brain function difference, which is weird and not very scientifically valid. I also am sure that not all people work that way … for example, I am a male (checked this morning!) and multitask way better than my ex (a female, of course, otherwise I’d have no basis for this comment). With this counterexample, it’s easy to see that gender generalizations are silly. Do you really know how females are? Have you ever been a female? And can you really have world peace with resource contention that comes from having a limited finite set of natural resources?