OK, here's another thread pushing the bounds of Buffy-relevance...
I think Joss may be left-handed:
"For those of you who don't know me, I'm Chris Buchanan, right hand man to Joss (which is paradoxical because he's actually left-handed) and one of the producers of the BDM. I'm also known as "Affable Chap" on the OB. And my mom still calls me "Christopher" "
http://www.serenitymovie.com/blog/index.php
"”There's some evidence that lefties' brains may be wired a little differently, that left-handedness often has a relationship with creativity, artistic ability. Our brains are divided into halves, the left hemisphere controlling the right side of the body, the right controls the left half. More linear, logical skills are located in the left hemisphere, creative in the right.
http://www.lefthander.com/being.htm
http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/lefty_research.html
Anyways, I found an article in Wired that was interesting"”theorizing that more holistic, creative thinking is going to become critically important for the post-industrialized West:
Revenge of the Right BrainÂ
"...abundance has produced an ironic result. The Information Age has unleashed a prosperity that in turn places a premium on less rational sensibilities - beauty, spirituality, emotion. For companies and entrepreneurs, it's no longer enough to create a product, a service, or an experience that's reasonably priced and adequately functional. In an age of abundance, consumers demand something more..."
"...As the forces of Asia, automation, and abundance strengthen and accelerate, the curtain is rising on a new era, the Conceptual Age. If the Industrial Age was built on people's backs, and the Information Age on people's left hemispheres, the Conceptual Age is being built on people's right hemispheres. We've progressed from a society of farmers to a society of factory workers to a society of knowledge workers. And now we're progressing yet again - to a society of creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers.
But let me be clear: The future is not some Manichaean landscape in which individuals are either left-brained and extinct or right-brained and ecstatic - a land in which millionaire yoga instructors drive BMWs and programmers scrub counters at Chick-fil-A. Logical, linear, analytic thinking remains indispensable. But it's no longer enough.
To flourish in this age, we'll need to supplement our well-developed high tech abilities with aptitudes that are "high concept" and "high touch." High concept involves the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to come up with inventions the world didn't know it was missing. High touch involves the capacity to empathize, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one's self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/brain.html?pg=2&topic=brain&topic_set=
"”I don't know if this guy knows what he's talking about or not, but as a right-brained art guy, it sounds good to me. I always envied my computer-tech friends in high school, having the math smarts and linear logic. I have none of that. They'd study computer science in college and be set for life, so I thought.
Both of Joss's protagonists in the "˜verse, Buffy and Angel, ultimately confronted their final conflicts in a similar way. They weren't only using brute force. Nor were they being purely rational, logical. They ended things by being crafty, looking for opportunities, thinking creatively.
All the folks on these boards writing stories, poems, making art, formulating, theorizing"”it's fun, and inspiring really. And I think folks love Joss's stuff because he's got something like:
"the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative, the capacity to empathize, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one's self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning."
"”Would you consider yourself the logical math/science/reason type or the creative/arty/intuitive type? Or both? It just makes me wonder, "˜cause an individual needs all these skills to varying degrees. Folks like Michael Crichton and that woman responsible for "Bones" are interesting to me: the scientist who then goes on to artistic/creative work. The skills overlap somewhat.
I think Joss may be left-handed:
"For those of you who don't know me, I'm Chris Buchanan, right hand man to Joss (which is paradoxical because he's actually left-handed) and one of the producers of the BDM. I'm also known as "Affable Chap" on the OB. And my mom still calls me "Christopher" "
http://www.serenitymovie.com/blog/index.php
"”There's some evidence that lefties' brains may be wired a little differently, that left-handedness often has a relationship with creativity, artistic ability. Our brains are divided into halves, the left hemisphere controlling the right side of the body, the right controls the left half. More linear, logical skills are located in the left hemisphere, creative in the right.
http://www.lefthander.com/being.htm
http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/lefty_research.html
Anyways, I found an article in Wired that was interesting"”theorizing that more holistic, creative thinking is going to become critically important for the post-industrialized West:
Revenge of the Right BrainÂ
"...abundance has produced an ironic result. The Information Age has unleashed a prosperity that in turn places a premium on less rational sensibilities - beauty, spirituality, emotion. For companies and entrepreneurs, it's no longer enough to create a product, a service, or an experience that's reasonably priced and adequately functional. In an age of abundance, consumers demand something more..."
"...As the forces of Asia, automation, and abundance strengthen and accelerate, the curtain is rising on a new era, the Conceptual Age. If the Industrial Age was built on people's backs, and the Information Age on people's left hemispheres, the Conceptual Age is being built on people's right hemispheres. We've progressed from a society of farmers to a society of factory workers to a society of knowledge workers. And now we're progressing yet again - to a society of creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers.
But let me be clear: The future is not some Manichaean landscape in which individuals are either left-brained and extinct or right-brained and ecstatic - a land in which millionaire yoga instructors drive BMWs and programmers scrub counters at Chick-fil-A. Logical, linear, analytic thinking remains indispensable. But it's no longer enough.
To flourish in this age, we'll need to supplement our well-developed high tech abilities with aptitudes that are "high concept" and "high touch." High concept involves the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to come up with inventions the world didn't know it was missing. High touch involves the capacity to empathize, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one's self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/brain.html?pg=2&topic=brain&topic_set=
"”I don't know if this guy knows what he's talking about or not, but as a right-brained art guy, it sounds good to me. I always envied my computer-tech friends in high school, having the math smarts and linear logic. I have none of that. They'd study computer science in college and be set for life, so I thought.
Both of Joss's protagonists in the "˜verse, Buffy and Angel, ultimately confronted their final conflicts in a similar way. They weren't only using brute force. Nor were they being purely rational, logical. They ended things by being crafty, looking for opportunities, thinking creatively.
All the folks on these boards writing stories, poems, making art, formulating, theorizing"”it's fun, and inspiring really. And I think folks love Joss's stuff because he's got something like:
"the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative, the capacity to empathize, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one's self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning."
"”Would you consider yourself the logical math/science/reason type or the creative/arty/intuitive type? Or both? It just makes me wonder, "˜cause an individual needs all these skills to varying degrees. Folks like Michael Crichton and that woman responsible for "Bones" are interesting to me: the scientist who then goes on to artistic/creative work. The skills overlap somewhat.