Right vs Left

[ksmith]

Swiped from alfreda89.

I'm not sure how I feel about this, except that once again I'm straddling a line. I struggled with calculus and physics, yet majored in chemistry. Switched to an English/Art major in the midst of my chemistry track because I was sicksicksick of the sciences and the prevailing attitudes, then returned because I became sicksicksick of the English and Art majors and their prevailing attitudes.

I also returned to Chemistry because 1) I wanted to get a job when I left school, and 2) I felt like a Quitter because I had bailed.

I've never been 100% content in any place I've been. That can get wearing after a while. You're constantly fighting the sensations that you don't belong, that you're a screw-up, that you don't fit in. The never-ending feeling of being on the outside looking in.

And my, isn't this adamant for a Friday morning. Probably the "I need a new job" mood that I'm in.

Anyway, here I am, give or take a few points I'm sure...

Brain Lateralization Test Results

Right Brain (72%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain. Left Brain (62%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain

Are You Right or Left Brained?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how I feel about this, except that once again I'm straddling a line.

You say this like it's a Bad Thing.

Straddling the line means you're close enough to the analytical and to the imaginative to make use of both in all aspects of your life. Granted, not everybody is like this, and I certainly understand the feeling of never-quite-fitting, but I'd still view it as more of a blessing than a curse.

Of course, I would... *g*

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I think it has helped me regarding book research and working technical detail into dramatic passages (or passages I hope are dramatic). But the weird slippiness gets on my nerve. I'm a born Bachelors Chemist in a PhD world--past a certain point, the detail just slides around me because I've reached my limit. I don't care anymore. Enough is enough. Then I encounter people who are just a little too non-rational thinker, and I slip back into the other track. I live a life plagued by a constant undercurrent of frustration. It's a tiny undercurrent most times, but it's aggravating. I run into people who Think, and I wish they'd Feel, then when I find myself with people who Feel, I wish to hell they'd Think.

Going back to the test, I am detail-oriented, but not in the way the test is testing for. I get details eventually, in layers. As I write, or work at the dayjob, things occur to me and I insert them in an almost constant stream of backfill. But you can get away with that sort of sideways thinking more easily with a book than with a project, The book sits there and waits until you finish it--you have the time. With a work project, I need to grasp as many details as possible in the beginning so that things can be planned and scheduled. But I miss things, so I'm always patching holes.