Right Brain/Left Brain
August 9, 2008 by Lillie
I saw a link on Robin Lee Hatcher’s Write Thinking to this test to determine whether you use your left brain or your right brain most.
The right brain relates to creativity, the left brain to logic and organization. Writing requires right brain usage; editing requires left brain usage. I enjoyed taking the test and found the results interesting. You may want to check it out for yourself.
Here is the summary of my results:
Lillie, 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!
This pretty well describes me. Let us know in comments if your results describe you well.
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Hmmm. I took the test and my profile wasn’t all that accurate. It got some things right (my love for learning, my creative side, and a tendency to overcommit) but several things were way off base (others perceiving me as “off balance”, being disorganized, being a “dreamer”). I can’t put a lot of stock in this one.
Lillie, this is very very interesting article. Just I wonder every time when I open your blog. I took the test too and I`ll share with you after that because I really like your blog and posts. I am blogger too and I know it`s not easy to write. Respect!
If is a person is left-handed then everything is the other way around.
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This was mine.
” Your Brain Usage Profile:
Auditory : 47%
Visual : 52%
Left : 72%
Right : 27%
So I think that I am not going to create anything.
This is something that I’ve always found fascinating. I’ve taken similar tests in the past that turned out to be pretty accurate. As soon as I get a chance I’ll take this test and come back and let you know how I feel about the results.
Interesting test, Lillie. I’ve often wondered about my left/right brain tendencies, as I have no aptitude at all for math or science but don’t have a creative bone in my body. This test gave me some good insight, until it got to the career suggestions–I am totally geared toward sociology, psychology, social work, etc., and they think I’d be good as a scientist. But I think that’s my dichotomous brain coming into play–I don’t clearly fit into either category. Maybe that’s why at the age of 40 I’m still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up!
My wife and I both took the test and we both felt that the results were fairly accurate (about our own as well as one another’s).
There were some things on mine that I didn’t feel was completely accurate, but overall I thought it was pretty good. I posted about it on my site to see if I get any feedback from people I know.
I took the test and it said that I had a lot of left brained tendencies. I was surprised though to find out how many right brained tendencies I have also. I thought I was straight left brained. Guess I didn’t realize how I have changed over the years.
Lillie,
Here are my results:
Your Brain Usage Profile:
Auditory : 50%
Visual : 50%
Left : 42%
Right : 57%
I found my results quite interesting, since I’ve always considered myself highly left-brain dominant. Some of the characteristics mentioned in my summary didn’t seem totally accurate, while others were right on the money. Of course, it’s always possible that, though I’m one of the most detail-oriented and analytical people I know (left-brain traits), I may just have begun developing more of an affinity for the “big picture” (right brain trait) than I’ve ever had before. I’ll certainly have to give these results a bit more thought — or should I say analysis?
Jeanne
Great article, I think that having a good balance between both the analytical and the spontaneous is what makes for successful creative workers (especially deadline oriented workers such as writers!)
That was an interesting test. It seemed fairly accurate for me.
Auditory : 71%
Visual : 28%
Left : 62%
Right : 37%
“Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management.”
Sounds about right.
It’s interesting that everybody is born with ALL creative talents but we’re “de-educated” when it comes to our more creative and intuitive abilities. We live in a culture that supposedly values reason and ‘hard nosed common sense’ and therefore we cease to appreciate that which can’t be empirically tested. Other cultures have greatly valued this connection to something greater than ourselves. With all the problems that are facing us today, we surely do need a higher level of thinking.
Sydney,
I certainly agree that we need a connection to something greater than ourselves.
this is very very interesting article. Just I wonder every time when I open your blog. I took the test too and I`ll share with you after that because I really like your blog and posts. I am blogger too and I know it`s not easy to write.
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