Thursday, July 23, 2009

Programming is not mere use of left brain

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Few months back I have seen the video "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-brainers Will Rule the Future" of Daniel H. Pink. Where he professes why Right-brainers Will Rule the Future. Everything he told made sense to me, everything was logical. Mostly he is talking about outsourcing from US to ASIA, in these outsourced works programming was also included. But after seeing the programing language Scala and Lift framework I felt like programming is not mere use of left brain. As far as I understand programming needs "A whole brain" neither left nor right brain can help alone. Sometimes after getting frustrated by trying to solve a problem sequentially and logically, we find the solution by thinking in random with no logic.
So we should give a chance to right brain when the problem is taking longer than usual time. And should think beyond the existing technologies to solve the problems we have, at least once a week if more is not feasible.

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Unknown said...

"So we should give a chance to right brain when the problem is taking longer than usual time"

Can you tell me how we can do that. I want to know, how we can use right brain more.

July 24, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Kisor Biswal said...

It is easy, we just need to develop the habit of self observation. While struggling to solve a problem frequently ask your self questions like.. How long have you taken? What are possible causes of problem? Is it the best way of doing? What are the alternative solutions? Are you sure the problem is in the file you are looking into?

Oh, problem is there and I was looking into this... now its solved.

July 24, 2009 at 8:20 PM

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