Monday 22 October 2007

My Sinister Left-Brain!


Today at Uni, we were looking at different ways of thinking, and of course by different ways of thinking, also, different ways in which people think! The image above might indicate where I'm going with this. Nio disrespect to women, au contraire, I think they're lovely, but the way in which their brains' operate is virtually alien to man! They're totally right-brainers, OK some men are also right-brainers (they claim), but I'm not convinced that there's an even spread.

What separates left-brainers from right-brainers? Well left-brainers are logical and rational. Right-brainers are random and irrational. See what I mean? This is the reason why (if you're a man) that you will find it impossible to win an argument with your other half. You are applying logic, they are applying insanely irrational randomness. They don't win the argument, they just render your logically constructed points completely irrelevant, through tangential absurdness. In effect, you feel like you've lost the argument, but don't know how, while they feel like they've won the argument, and don't care how.

Obviously, thinking is not as clear cut as left or right brain and indeed many people are partly both. Right-brainers are creative, that is there forte, and they therefore supply a product (art, music, writing) which is useful to left-brainers. And, it's sometimes also useful to be reminded of how not to behave!