The Whole in Your Head – Part 1

Making decisions and behaving in a prosperous way begins with what you think. What you think begins with HOW you think. How do prosperous entrepreneurs think? Are most left-brained or right-brained? What’s the difference? The difference according to most people is that the left side of the brain is logical, and the right side is creative. Assess yourself. Are you predominantly left brained or right brained?

An exercise determining your dominant eye may reveal more than just which pupil is preferred. Make a circle with your right hand putting the four fingers on your right together, and then bending your thumb so that it touches the tips of both your index and middle finger at the same time. Now you have a nice little tube to peer through. Extend your arm half way to full and with both eyes open, find a distant object that will fit into the size of your little tube. When the object appears to be in the center of the tube, close your left eye. If the object is still in the center of the tube, your right eye is dominant. If the object is in the center of the tube when you close your right eye, then your left eye is dominant.

If you’re like most people, your right eye is dominant. And since the right side of the body is controlled by the left side of the brain, then it’s logical to say that the left brain of most people dominate their right brain. Let’s face it, we live in a left-brained world. How did this happen? Were most of us just created this way?

Here’s How A Left-Brained World Happened

The ancient Greeks believed since the heart was on the left side of the body that the left hemisphere of the brain must be crucial to life itself. Later, when scientist discovered that our ability to understand language belonged to the left hemisphere, we thought the left hemisphere must surely then be more important than the right. When it was discovered that the left hemisphere controlled the right side of the body, and since most people in the world were right-handed, we were convinced that the left hemisphere was certainly the most important side of the brain.

Here’s what we know today.

Characteristics of the Left

1. sequential
2. specializes in text (what is said)
3. analyzes the details (if this, then that, manager mentality)
   converges on a single answer
4. focuses on categories
5. can grasp the details
6. thinks in words

Characteristics of the Right

1. simultaneous
2. specializes in context (how it’s said)
3. synthesizes the big picture (big thinking, vision setting, entrepreneurialistic)
4. diverges into a Gestalt
5. focuses on relationships
6. only the right hemisphere can see the big picture
7. thinks in pictures
   
   (A whole new mind, pg 22; Blink, pg 119)
   
   
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