When reviewing this weeks assignment, I assumed I fell mostly on one side of the brain. When reflecting on the ideas as strengths and weaknesses, I noticed I had several qualities on each side. In my reflection of my past educational grades or elective choices, I concluded I never was strong in Math or Science. In turn, I believed I was more creative and took drama and art.
While examining the picture of what the left brain is responsible for, I picked out a few strengths.
Memorizing for my ability to memorize and sing songs.
Grammar, spelling, and technical skills have always been a strong subjects for me and I remember winning a spelling bee when I was younger.
Writing has led me to the social science field because I needed to stick to learning things I was good at ( no Algebra).
Evidence and analysis are also ideas I am interested in, I watch crime shows and have a degree in Criminal Justice. I don't feel I am incredibly deep, but feel I have to be analytical to read between the lines to understand my clientele in my profession.
Now the right side of the brain, is what I remember being more of.
I feel I am very intuitive and have been told by many elders I have great insight of people and human behavior. I have always felt I was an old soul who knew much more than what I lead people to believe. I feel more deep and connected to understanding others and behavior.
I looked up spatial thinking because I didn't know hat it meant and it sounds like math, geometry or computer science, but it also said solving problems. I do feel I enjoy working towards solving problems. The creativity of feelings, emotions, and dreams has always fascinated me. I do think people need to practice to be more creative. At this point, I feel more right brained and trusting what I feel is part of the right brain --oddly.
Ok, so I went and found a test online so I can further explore what I am stronger in. I am laughing because apparently my intuitive senses of myself are not very good. However, the test graded me dominant left brained. I felt the test asked many questions related to rule breaking and structure.
http://similarminds.com/cgi-bin/brain.pl
I decided to take another test and again I was left brain dominant but more in the 50% range.I felt more confident in this survey and felt it was more accurate. One thing that surprised me was how I should be a mathematician. WHAT??
http://www.wherecreativitygoestoschool.com/vancouver/left_right/rb_test.htm
Nikkie, I did a similar test and found that I answered 18 out of 18 questions as left-brained but I have always identified myself as more of a right-brained kind of person because I've always thought of myself as an artist.
ReplyDeleteLooking at your left-brained attributes, I think I have a lot of those same ones. When I think of music, I think of right-brained activity but music is also very mathematical.
Nikkie, I also think of myself as more right brained, enjoying the story of a person and problem solving with words as opposed to the science and math type of analysis. I have some of you same traits like a memory for details, grammar and spelling as a strong point, etc. I think everyone has strengths as well as likes and dislikes that can fall on both sides of the brain. It depends on what catches out interest.
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