THE RIGHT AND LEFT BRAIN

Have you ever thought which part of the brain dominates your personality?

I have been asked many times how to know if you are right or left brained kind of human because many people are still confused with these two and they often interchange it.

In this manner, even there are a lot of personalities that a person could possibly have, this  is just a matter of deciding whether you are the scientist or the artist type of person or more specifically the logical left brainer or the creative right brainer. 

I am very sure on how am I going to differentiate these two because all my life I'm trying to be the left brainer type of person but being a right brainer is definitely not bad. 

Two halves of the brain are not identical. Right half of the brain processes creative tasks and left half can handle math or form language. Left Brain deals with analysis, logic, words, numbers, reason, analytical, sequential. Right Brain deals with pictures, feelings, creativity,arts, abstract and innovation but the brain is not a clear cut as the myth makes it out to be. These two halves of the brain should work hand in hand and should be interrelated and should not be used and enhanced separately. 

According to Anderson:

The neuroscience community has never accepted the idea of 'left-dominant' or 'right-dominant' personality types. Lesion studies don't support it, and the truth is that it would be highly inefficient for one half of the brain to consistently be more active than the other.

Moreover, as what one of my idols in the management and leadership industry, Francis Kong says, grading system of most of the schools is very limitng and are only interested in developing the left brain and never the right brain and this should be addressed accordingly. In order to be whole brained, schools need to give equal weight to these both sides of the brain. 

By the way, Francis Kong was the president of Success Option Publishing Company, Director of Inspire Leadership Consultancy, an author, columnist  and  a Filipino, Motivational Speaker. 

"The future belongs to the right and this is called age of conceptualization, industry, industrial revolution the battle cry was quality. Computer age, the battle cry was knowledge and data gathering. Today, the economy of speed--- it is all about conceptualization, each and every organization nowadays are of equal footage and you know what is the missing link? --- it is the ability to innovate --- design " -Francis Kong

and the challenge for schools is not to focus on arithmetic, writing and reading which is definitely of left brain concept, the challenge is to produce top quality students having the best of both worlds, whole brained individuals.