Serendipitous Epiphenomena

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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

My brain is perfectly balanced

There is a really cool test that shows you whether you are left or right-brained, and whether you are predominantly an auditory or a visual type of person. It's called brain.exe and you'll find it all over the web. If you don't have a PC, like me, the test is also online. You don't get the nice picture of the brain with the center of your being this way, but I'm sure you can mock something together. Here is mine:



And here is what it says about me (there's more but these are the juicy bits)...

Mark, you are one of those rare individuals who are perfectly "balanced" in both your hemispheric tendencies and your sensory learning preferences. (Didn't I know it?)

However, there is both good news and bad news. (There just had to be, hadn't there?)

You may have a problem with organization. You might organize your time and/or space only to feel the need to reorganize five to ten weeks later. (So that's where that comes from...)

On the positive side, you bring resources to problem-solving that others may not have. You can perceive the "big picture" (as well as the "big sound" I presume) and the essential details simultaneously and maintain the cognitive perspective required. You possess sufficient verbal skills (merely sufficient?) to translate your intuition into a form which can be understood by others while still being able to access ideas and concepts which do not lend themselves to language. (Yes, I'd like to tell you about those, but how?)

Your balanced nature might lead you to second-guess yourself in artistic endeavors, losing some of the fluidity, spontaneity and creativity that otherwise would be yours. (How do you second-guess yourself? I knew I was going to chose the peanut butter sandwich, I just knew it!)

With your balanced sensory styles, you process data alternately, at times visually and other times auditorially. (That's true! I tend to process pictures visually, and music auditorially, although music is a bad example, as I am a little synesthetic, in that I sometimes hear colors - I don't actually know whether that's true, but it makes me sound interesting.)

Your greatest benefit is that you can succeed in multiple fields due to the great plasticity and flexibility you possess. (I guess that is meant in a figurative sense, otherwise it's all wrong)

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