What does it mean to be Right Brained?
Written By Rick Sleshinger
If right now you are sitting at a desk that is a complete mess than chances are you are a right brained individual. Left brained individuals tend to be more organized and prefer a space that is cleaner and easier to work around. Similarly if you prefer to play it safe and don't usually seek out too many risks than you may be left brained as right brained individuals tend to love to risks and unfamiliar situations. If after taking all those risks there is no way that you can come home and keep eating the same food night after night then you definitely fall in the right brained category as well. Left brained individuals tend to love ritual and routine and eating a ham sandwhich every day for lunch probably wouldn't bother them in the least.
If you are a multitasker, or even prefer to tackle numerous responsibilities all concurrently you most likely belong to the right brained group if you choose to focus on a single job and complete it extremely efficiently and properly than chances are you are a left brained thinker. In the event that one of your main reasons you like to multi-task as well as tackle a variety of jobs is because you require that much work to concentrate and keep you from day dreaming than it's likely excellent you belong to the right brained group. Left brainers have a tendency never to be as ingenious are considered less as day dreamers.
When you bring up a thought in your mind, or try and think your way through a situation, do you usually see images and colors? or do you think in words and numbers? Right brained individuals usually think in colors and pictures while left brained individuals tend to think in words. This may explain why left brained thinkers are usually more adept at algebra and right brained individuals tend to excel in geometry and shape based subjects. It also stands to reason that left brained thinkers would be better mathemeticians in general while right brained thinkers tend to be better at the arts and social sciences.
When you feel that you are making an important decision in your life, if you tend to rely on emotions and intuition to help you make this decision you are most definitely a right brained thinker. If you are logical and go through the problem step by step then you are a left brained thinker. If you like to listen to music while making these tough choices and you find it helps you concentrate than again you are a right brained individual as left brained people tend to prefer silence when they think. Keep in mind that these are all generalizations and you should never let the fact of whether or not you are left or right brained keep you from doing something that you want to do!
Rick Sleshinger is an amateur writer and historian who looks at the history of left or right brained thinkers
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