제 것 중국 장
Ernie Tadla의
나가 이 책을 쓰고 있는 동안 일어난 무엇이 저.
"Oh 의 동쪽은 동쪽 있고, 서쪽은 서쪽 이다,
그리고 결코 twain는 만나지 않을 것이다,
지구와 하늘이에 곧 서 있을 때까지
신의 중대한 재판관석;
그러나 동쪽 도 아니다 서쪽이 아니,
국경, 도 아니다 유형, 도 아니다 출생,
2명의 강한 남자가 정면으로 서 있을 때,
그들이 지구의 끝에서 오더라도!"
Rudyard Kipling 1889년
나가 중국에 갈 때, 나는 중국어 모든 것의 부정, 독선적인 전망이 있었다. 공산주의 적이고, 신을 부인하는 공산독재이었다. 우리는, 다른 한편으로는, 자본주의, 민주주의의, 기독교 사회이었다.
이렇게 7 년 후에, 격파, 고통은 몇몇 심각한 안 대화를 거쳐 따랐다, 나는 나의 패러다임을 바꾸고 중국 방법에 관하여 많은 긍정적인 것을 발견하는 것을 허용했다.
나는 캐나다에 돌려보내고 나의 신선하고, 새로운 중국 원근법에서 이 책을 썼다. 나가 먼저 중국 방법을 강타하기 때문에 나가 지금 서쪽 방법을 강타하고 있었다, 나의 편집자 나의 주의에 주어지는 로스 Freake. 나는 스톡홀름 증후군으로 감염되었었다. 당신은 지금 태도와 패러다임에 있는 변화를 가진 완전한 개정을 읽고 있다, 그러나 인 전에 무슨 등을 맞댄 아닙니다; 저것에 있는 아무 이익도 없을 것입니다.
동기성을 통해, 나는 중요한 주현절을 받았다.
전체 두뇌 통합의 개념이다.
다음은 2개의 두뇌 반구 사이 다름 이다.
| 좌반구 | 우반구 |
| 용도 논리 또는 이유 | 용도 직관 또는 정서 |
| 낱말에서 생각한다 | 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?