How to Determine Your Brain Dominance

There are several different ways to help determine Brain Dominance.
This applies to you or anyone else. One simple way is to review how well a person does in school, especially high School. If a student does well in English, art, social studies, literature and the humanities, they're likely right-brain dominate. These same people will usually not fair as well in math and science classes, they may even dread taking those subjects. On the other hand, if they excel in math and science courses, but do not do as well in the classes listed above where the right-brain students do, they're probably left-brain dominate.

This will usually be true throughout their lives. The left-brain dominant people will more likely become engineers, scientists, mathematicians, technical and factual writers, and other types of professions that require paying attention to details and the facts (some call them "Bean Counters"). The right-brain dominant people are more likely to go into professions that require more imaginative thinking; artistic designers, fiction authors, media personnel, even politicians Most politicians are right-brain dominate. You can tell by the way most of them go about trying to solve problems - they use their imaginations a lot.

Now that you know the attributes of the left-brain versus the right-brain, you can probably think of other professions involving one or the other. Of course some people are more evenly balanced than others. As I admitted earlier, I'm 70% very left-brain dominant;
you can tell by my professional endeavors and how I try solving problems (usually from an engineering approach). One of my daughters says she doesn't have the patients to work on a problem like I do. And too, as mentioned before, my brother is very right-brain dominant; he's a terrific picture artist as well as being good at designing things like furniture, etc. I can't even draw a decent stick man.

Only a few people are evenly balanced. Most of us are dominant one way or the other.
Some might be 40% - 60% for instance, or 60% - 40%, or any other ratio. The following is a problem you can try to solve that can be done right-brained or left-brained or any combination of the two. The objective here is how you went about solving the problem more than if you get the right answers.

The Cube Problem. Start with a painted cube (all three dimensions the same) and make
3 even slices in all 3 directions as shown. Now solve the following:

A Perfect Cube

How many pieces result and what is their shape?
How many have 3 surfaces painted? How many have 2 surfaces painted?
How many have 1 surface painted? And how many have no surfaces painted?
Please let me know your answers and how you solved it. My Email is
the.explicitblogger@gmail.com

Good Luck with the problem.

The Left-brain/Right-brain Illusion Experiment

The Skull Illusion

Here's and interesting experiment 
I conducted in a writing class a few years ago. It involved an illusionary picture of a skull with a hidden scene. The class was told to look closely at the picture to see if they could see anything else. Here's the picture.

Interestingly some in the class saw the illusion quickly. Others took a while to see it. And some never saw it at all, even when it was pointed out to them and told what the hidden image was. One lady was quiet indignant about it because she couldn't see the hidden image. How did you do?

So what does this have to do with  Left-brain/Right-brain dominance? 
Apparently left-brain dominant people can see it more readily. Right-brain people have a harder time seeing the hidden image because they look at the overall picture and can not see the details as well that reveal the other image. This is strictly my own interpretation based on observing my fellow students during the course to learn which side of their brain seemed to be dominant. 

Is the Right brain Analog and the Left brain Digital?
Here's my own analogy on this if it's true, and I believe it is. Think about it, the right brain looks at the overall view as looking, for instance, at an analog clock. It sees  the overall face at first and then the position of the various hands to tell the time. There even are analog clocks that don't have numbers on them, just marks every 30 degrees to show the time. The left brain looks at the individual parts of the display as like looking at a digital clock. Here, individual numerals set side-by-side  tell the time in a digital form. This is not to say that some people can only tell time by one form or the other. But I do believe it's indicative of which side of the brain is involved when looking at either an analog clock or a digital clock for instance.

In my next blog I'll show you how you an test your own brain dominance.