I have been reading A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink. I bought this book used and guess what – it is autographed by the Author. I thought that was pretty sweet! This book offers an enlightening theory on the way thinking will “need to change” for the future. I believe that spirituality and right-brain thinking are the central focus of this book, though I have not finished it in its entirety. So far, I feel that this book offers an intelligent view of thinking about our future. Left-brain thinking is no longer going to be enough – hmmmmm.
As I am reading this book, I am questioning who I am – right-brained or left-brained. I decided to look into this and found an online test. Interesting, I am split down the middle. These are my results:
Your Brain Usage Profile:
Auditory : 56%
Visual : 43%
Left : 50%
Right : 50%
Visual : 43%
Left : 50%
Right : 50%
Amber, your hemispheric dominance is equally divided between left and right brain, while you show a moderate preference for auditory versus visual learning, signs of a balanced and flexible person.
Your balance gives you the enviable capacity to be verbal and literate while retaining a certain "flair" and individuality. You are logical and compliant but only to a degree. You are organized without being compulsive, goal-directed without being driven, and a "thinking" individual without being excessively so.
The one problem you might have is that your learning might not be as efficient as you would like. At times you will work from the specific to the general, while at other times you'll work from the general to the specific. Sometimes you will be logical in your approach while at other times random. Since you cannot always control the choice, you may experience frustrations not normally felt by persons with a more defined and directed learning style.
You may also minimally experience conflicts associated with auditory processing. You will be systematic and sequential in your processing of information, you will most often focus on a single dimension of the problem or material, and you will be more reflective, i.e., "taking the data in" as opposed to "devouring" it.
Overall, you should feel content with your life and yourself. You are, perhaps, a little too critical of yourself - and of others - while maintaining an "openness" which is redeeming. Indecisiveness is a problem and your creativity is not in keeping with your potential. Being a pragmatist, you downplay this aspect of yourself and focus on the more immediate, the more obvious and the more functional.
Interested in taking the brain test? Here is the link: http://www.squidoo.com/braintest
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Finding out about yourself is always a fun activity...I would have guessed that you were in the middle as well.
ReplyDeleteI'm about to take the test but I'm guessing that I lean to the right.
Ok, so while answering the questions I thought to myself...BOGUS...now however, maybe not so much. This is a fairly accurate summation of me:
ReplyDeleteChris, you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant with a balanced preference for auditory and visual inputs. Because of your "centrist" tendencies, the distinctions between various types of brain usage are somewhat blurred.
Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor, unless it requires total spontaneity and ability to improvise, your weaker traits. However, you are far from rigid or overcontrolled. You possess a degree of individuality, perceptiveness, and trust in your intuition to function at much more sophisticated levels than most.
Having given sufficient attention to detail, you can readily perceive the larger aspects and implications of a situation or of learning. You are functional and practical, but can blend abstraction and theory into your framework readily.
The equivalence of your auditory and visual learning orientation gives you two equally effective sensory input systems, each with distinctive features. You can process both unidimensionally and multidimen- sionally with equal facility. When needed, you sequence material while at other times you "intake it all" and store it for processing later.
Your natural ability to use your senses is also synthesized in your way of learning. You can be reflective in your approach, absorbing material in a non-aggressive manner, and at other times voracious in seeking out stimulation and experience.
Overall you tend to be somewhat more critical of yourself than is necessary and avoid enjoying life too much because of a sense of duty. You feel somewhat constrained and tend to sometimes restrict your expressiveness. In any given situation, you will opt for the rational, and learning of almost any type should be easy for you. You might need certain ideas explained to you in order to fit them into your scheme of things, but you're at least open to that!
A colleague and I got our masters degrees together when we were teaching in the G/T program. I was extremely left-brained, and she was extremely right-brained. What a pair! She taught me so much through our experiences of learning and teaching--and rooming--together, and I owe her a great debt of gratitude. I am not sure she learned anything from me.
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