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Great outline of right brain strengths, Ellen. Any chance you will do a similar post on left brain strengths. The reason I ask is because I can identify these strengths in my business partnership; I know my partner is quite opposite from me in her preferences, and I'm thinking she's more than likely favoring her left-brain skills.

Great outline of right brain strengths, Ellen. Any chance you will do a similar post on left brain strengths. The reason I ask is because I can identify these strengths in my business partnership; I know my partner is quite opposite from me in her preferences, and I'm thinking she's more than likely favoring her left-brain skills.

Patsi, thanks for your kind words.... You make a good case for coming together with folks with strengths from the opposite brain hemisphere -- it gets amazing results when people collaborate too... Check out http://www.brainbasedbusiness.com/2006/05/get_more_fire_power_at_work_fr.html and let us know what you think?

I'm the biz partner Patsi refers to above. And she's right. I do favor my left brain, yet I do believe we both use both sides in different circumstances. And, yes, the key to our success is bringing together different strengths for our collaboration.

Denise -- thanks for dropping by -- what a team you must make at work...! BTW...Einstein would have applauded your obseration, cause he thought that we used both sides too ...but in different ways... He was poor in math so he used pictures to do Math and got stuff others did not... all by doing math through using more of his spatial intelligence. It opened doors others missed.... Similarly, please who are stong in logic skills might write in more creative ways by the way they sequence and clarify event.... Wow -- that's another blog! Thanks for stirring the dendrites...!

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i honestly don't think anyone should try using right brain or left brain techniques for anything, and use only what they already are physically capable of. a right brained person will never be a left brained person, or vice versa. than their is ambidextrous people with preference this way or that. whatever the case might be, it should not matter if you are more left or right brained. thats what the point should be. the point shouldn't be to excercise the right brain, unless it is something that needs to be used for some practical reason which i cannot think of. lets say you are driving your car, and you need to use your eyes a lot, you may beleive this to be a right brain function, than so be it. that is why your brain has naturally adapted to the situation for the moment. my opinion is that the brain naturally adapts to the situation with some relevance to tha situation. whether we can actually control this response to me does not seem reasonable. perhaps we can, but the margin of our abilities to control right and left brain hemisphere control is far more less than when we are driving our cars and the brain does this for us. the reason for that is based on observation, and not any set of rules which describe the end result. for the moment we might take this into consideration, that their are not rules which establish this line of thought, but that the observation of the end result lead us to our conclussions without any supporting evidence, we can than move further into stating that this is what it means to be right brained. in some cases using your left brain is possible even through learning, such as using your right hand to write. this excercise promotes using the left brain. but to irregularly pursue a topic and send your body stress signals that you should use your right brain more often, will drain you, and depress you if you really take this article seriously. you will start to question yourself, and you will not have a solid bases or foundation to really motivate you toward using your right brain. you'll just take another cheap look at an article that states something and you'll not think about the meaning, context, nor the implication for your own good, but you'll take it as truth, and you'll run with it. that is why, i highly suggest that nobody takes these things too seriously, as some really don't on some level of their thinking.

Anonymous October 5, 2007 8:01 AM … I found your comments very interesting. I find it interesting that you took the time to show interest and were motivated to write your views. This shows that you were in some way moved or touched, hence the term motivated. I too highly believe in… “Live and let live and let go, accept” principal. It is natural for us to have a dominance of one side of the brain that we can live comfortably with. At the same time it is just as natural for many to explore both sides…after all that is why we do it…that is why I accessed this site. That is why this subject is explored and enjoyed by many. You find it stressful to have to examine the use of both sides; this however is stimulating and exciting for others. I actually think you are going through a difficult time in your personal life because…something natural lead you here, something natural made you write in your own personal defense. Opinions are good we are all writing them including you. Myself I am right handed, right eye dominant etc, a Realtor with employees which requires logic and law and an Artist and designer in my previous employment and life and have always desired, as many do to use the full capacity of both sides of the brain and yet retain the option of appealing to whichever side I want to at any given moment. Have you ever played golf? It can be advantageous to be able to play left and right which I do…I simply can’t tell the difference so I take both sets for clubs and use what feels comfortable and refuse to think of the rest. However I chose to learn to write with my left hand…only because I wanted to expand my abilities knowing full well I may be leaving other abilities behind (or maybe not), I too don’t care, but it can be fun to play with one’s own mind. It can be relaxing, exciting and personally fulfilling. I think you too have this ability, and it might be good to let yourself relax, enjoy and go there without competition or pressure from any outside source, no one even has to know about your journey, it’s like solitaire, only you ever win. It’s a blast…give it a try; don’t let this life control you, even when you don’t know it. “Live and let live and let go, accept”!