![]() ![]() And yet, when it comes to really studying peak human performance and mental capacity, we find that some of our greatest geniuses have had impressive development on both sides of the brain. But it had commonly been assumed that creative or artistic people are almost exclusively right-brain types, while accountants and science people are almost exclusively left-brainers. Obviously, we use some part of both sides in everything we do. To reach our true intellectual and creative potential, we will want to develop and condition both sides of the brain… even if our primary expression is based primarily toward the left (as a scientist) or to the right (as an artist). Right-brain function is more abstract and creative-oriented, dealing with color, music, art, rhythm, imagination, daydreaming, space, emotion and dimension. Left-brain function has to do with tangible, structured things such as logic, words, numbers, analysis, lists, form, calculation, sequence and language. (*See PS below for more recent observations about this.) Through extensive research, a Nobel Prize-winning neurologist named Roger Sperry confirmed that each of the two sides, or hemispheres, of the brain – known simply as the “left-brain” and the “right-brain” – serve a distinctly different function. In the early 70’s, we took a major step forward in understanding how the brain works. ![]()
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