I wrote in September about my development experiment Improve Your Brain Power - Use your right brain. In this post, I wrote about the suggestion that you could develop your brain by the simple act of moving your mouse to the opposite hand.
I continue to be fascinated with left brain/right brain differences.
This week, after a couple of weeks of pretty intense day-job work with no time for blogging or reading, my discretionary reading took me to the Freakonomics blog where I discovered the The Right Brain vs Left Brain test.
Try it. It's fascinating.
I can switch directions with a different focus. What does this mean? When you read the Freakonomics blog comments, it seems that most people get a single direction.
Thanks for reading. Please lead quietly.
Don
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Learning to Use the Full Brain
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Thanks for that link. Whether it is scientific at all, who knows, but it is fun little experiment.
I am a software developer about to finish up an MBA, and I definitely saw it moving clockwise first.
At first you can't see how it would spin the other way, but after some effort I finally got it to flip. Now I can get it to move back and forth easily.
The freakonomics blog, also used this as an example of that seemingly objective truth can be quite subjective.
Thanks for suggesting this link. I also saw the figure moving clockwise and it took a lot of effort to get it to move the other way and then a lot of effor to get it back to clockwise. It is interesting to me how we get locked into our perceptions. They aren't necessarily the only way to see things OR accurate, but we sure do think they are a lot of the time!
Michelle Kunz
PEL Coaching
www.PELCoaching.com
Thanks for the link. What an interesting little test. I looked at it a couple days ago and only saw it counter-clockwise (i couldn't get it to change for the life of me)
Tonight, a different story. It started out counter-clockwise, but I was able to change it. It's good to know I've got a right brain in there somewhere!!
Thanks again
Michelle,
Thanks for visiting.
The test is addicting as one tries to manipulate the movement.
I'm honored by your visit. I appreciate your work at http://pelcoaching.blogspot.com. I recently noted the Accountability versus Blame post. Very nice work.
Don
Eric,
Like the happy rock said, don't know if it is scientific but it is fun to manipulate.
Have you moved your mouse to the opposite hand yet?
Thanks for visiting.
Don
Don,
I'll give the "mouse in the opposite hand" a try today. I'm sure it may start out rather humorous!
wow that was interesting i didnt know how to do it for a while but then i figuered how to switch at anytime wow amazing thanks who ever came up with this
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