Recently I took an online quiz that supposedly measures my right-brained thinking to my left-brained thinking. Here were my alleged results:
Left Brain | Right Brain |
42% | 58% |
This information absolutely terrifies me. Right-brained thinkers are not the most successful people in Western society. I come from a family of heavily left-brained thinkers: electrical engineers (essentially rocket scientists). They expect me to be the great math brain that they both are.
I had begun to suspect this horrible fait since the end of middle school. I was not good at algebra. I hated my math class. And then I got into geometry and it just made sense. That scares me. Right brained thinkers are the starving artists and poets and college alumni with nothing more than a degree in French literature. Today’s society is centered around left-brained thinking, no matter what Daniel Pink says. Sure, I can see a day and age where right-brained thinkers rule the world, but that time is not the present and is not the time in which I will be making my living. Left-brained people have the advantage, an advantage I need to be successful.
For a very long time, when people ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I always tell them that I want to be an architect. Supposedly, this is essentially right-brained for concept and right-brained for application. This still is a reality for my life. Maybe this is not as bad as I had thought, but rather a realization of what I had always known.
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