Right Brain - Left Brain

Right Brain Inventory Left Brain Inventory • Visual, focusing on images, • Verbal, focusing on words, patterns symbols, numbers • Intuitive, led by feelings • Analytical, led by logic • Process ideas simultaneously • Process ideas sequentially, step by step • 'Mind photos' used to Words used to remember remember things, writing things, remember names rather things down or illustrating than faces them helps you remember • Make lateral connections • Make logical deductions from information from information • See the whole first, then the • Work up to the whole step by details step, focusing on details, information organised • Organisation ends to be • Highly organised lacking • Free association • Like making lists and planning • Like to know why you're • Likely to follow rules without doing something or why rules questioning them exist (reasons) • No sense of time • Good at keeping track of time • May have trouble with • Spelling and mathematical spelling and finding words to formula easily memorised express yourself • Enjoy touching and feeling • Enjoy observing actual objects (sensory input) • Trouble prioritising, so often • Plan ahead late, impulsive • Unlikely to read instruction • Likely read an instruction manual before trying manual before trying • Listen to how something is • Listen to what is being said being said • Talk with your hands • Rarely use gestures when talking • Likely to think you're • Likely to believe you're not naturally creative, but need to creative, need to be willing to apply yourself to develop your try and take risks to develop potential your potential

While we have a natural tendency towards one way of thinking, the two sides of our brain work together in our everyday lives. The right brain of the brain focuses on the visual, and processes information in an intuitive and simultaneous way, looking first at the whole picture then the details. The focus of the left brain is verbal, processing information in an analytical and sequential way, looking first at the pieces then putting them together to get the whole. he Left Brain The left brain is associated with verbal, logical, and analytical thinking. It excels in naming and categorizing things, symbolic abstraction, speech, reading, writing, arithmetic. The left brain is very linear: it places things in sequential order -- first things first and then second things second, etc. If you reflect back upon our own educational training, we have been traditionally taught to master the 3 R's: reading, writing and arithmetic -- the domain and strength of the left brain. The Right Brain The right brain, on the other hand, functions in a non-verbal manner and excels in visual, spatial, perceptual, and intuitive information. The right brain processes information differently than the left brain. For the right brain, processing happens very quickly and the style of processing is nonlinear and nonsequential. The right brain looks at the whole picture and quickly seeks to determine the spatial relationships of all the parts as they relate to the whole. This component of the brain is not concerned with things falling into patterns because of prescribed rules. On the contrary, the right brain seems to flourish dealing with complexity, ambiguity and paradox. At times, right brain thinking is difficult to put into words because of its complexity, its ability to process information quickly and its non-verbal nature. The right brain has been associated with the realm of creativity. Left Brain Words (verbal)

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