According to conventional wisdom, people tend to have a personality, thinking style, or way of doing things that is either right-brained or left-brained.
Those who are right-brained are supposed to be intuitive and creative free thinkers. They are "qualitative," big-picture thinkers who experience the world in terms that are descriptive or subjective. For example, "The skies are gray and menacing; I wonder if it's going to rain?"
Meanwhile, left-brained people tend to be more quantitative and analytical. They pay attention to details and are ruled by logic. Their view of the weather is more likely, "The forecast said there was only a 30% chance of rain, but those cumulonimbus clouds will probably bring thunder as well as rain."
Be like me - use your whole brain. It'll keep you from tripping over yourself. After all the smot poking I did during the 60's and 70's, I don't have that many brain cells left, so I have to use the few I have left - shall we say, judiciously. Juss' sayin'...
Actually the brain DOES segregate activity by hemisphere, a process called lateralization. The right brain controls certain activity while the left controls others. This has been known....and PROVEN via functional MRI, for years.
ReplyDeleteI can still remember the glee in rolling the fattest spliff with the rolling paper from C n C's Big Bambu album. Good times. Eddie
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