Righty or Lefty?
Have you ever wondered why some people are so good at math, or English? This idea can be explained in simple enough sounding words, brain hemispheres. It has been studied in people why they are better at a group of things, while another is better at a different group of things. This phenomena at hand is being more dominant with either ones left or right side of the brain.
If a person tends to be more dominant with one side of their brain, there are multiple characteristics that show this. Some characteristics of people whom are more left sided are: logical, sequential, rational, analytical, objective, and look at things as parts. This dominance affects ones personality, abilities, and way of learning. More girls tend to be left side dominant than boys. An interesting fact is that most schools actually favor left hemisphere dominant students. Many are likely to have a promising career in fields such as a lab scientist, banker, mathematician, librarian etc. This is because they are more logical and analytical thinking.
When a person is more right side dominant there are also characteristics that emphasize this. Many tend to think random, be intuitive, more holistic views, are synthesizing, subjective, and look at things as wholes. More boys tend to be right side dominant than girls. Right brained people relate more to a visual world. These dreamers would make for good politicians, athletes, and artists. Not saying that these occupations are what they WILL be, but with right hemisphere dominant people these careers would work well with their ways of thinking.
Even though there are a lot of people that fit these descriptions, there are also quite a few that are “whole brained”. This is because “..mental operations that start in one hemisphere link to specialized sections of the other hemisphere” (Lesley S J Farmer). After reading this if you’re curious to find out if you are more one hemisphere dominant, check this out.
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