Capítulo um de China
Por Ernie Tadla
O que me aconteceu quando eu escrevia este livro.
O “Oh, leste está do leste, e o oeste é ocidental,
e nunca o twain encontrar-se-á com,
Até que a terra e o céu estão presentemente em
Assento grande do julgamento do deus;
Mas há nem um leste nem um ocidental,
beira, nem raça, nem nascimento,
Quando dois homens fortes estiverem a cara - - a cara,
embora vêm das extremidades da terra!”
Rudyard Kipling, 1889
Quando eu fui a China, eu tive uma vista negativa, self-righteous de todas as coisas chinesas. Era um dictatorship communistic, godless. Nós, na uma mão, éramos uma sociedade capitalistic, democrática, Christian.
Assim após sete anos, frustração, dor seguida por algumas conversações internas sérias, eu mudei meu paradigm e permiti-me que myself descobrisse muitas coisas positivas sobre a maneira chinesa.
Eu retornei a Canadá e escrevi este livro de meu perspective chinês fresco, novo. Meu editor, Ross Freake, trazido a minha atenção que eu bashing agora a maneira ocidental porque eu bashed mais cedo a maneira chinesa. Eu infected com o syndrome de Éstocolmo. Você está lendo agora uma revisão completa com uma mudança na atitude e no paradigm, mas não para trás a o que era antes; não haveria nenhum ganho naquele.
Com o synchronicity, eu recebi um epiphany principal.
É o conceito da integração do inteiro-cérebro.
Seguir é as diferenças entre os dois hemisférios do cérebro.
| O hemisfério esquerdo | O hemisfério direito |
| usa a lógica/razão | usa o intuition/emoções |
| pensa nas palavras | pensa nos retratos e nas histórias |
| negócios nas peças/específicos | negócios nos wholes/relacionamentos |
| analisar/ruptura distante | a vontade synthesize/unido |
| pensa sequencialmente | pensa holistically |
| é o limite do tempo | 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?