Right Brain Vs. Left Brain

Someone sent me this in an email and thought I'd share it, along with my results here.

Thank you for taking the Creativity Test. The results show your brain dominance as being:
Left Brain 44%
Right Brain 56%

You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information.

Here's more bits and pieces of what this says about me, and my added comments:



You show moderate ability to organize information sequentially. You are probably an average mathematician and speller, and may or may not enjoy tasks such as making "to-do" lists. Anyone who knows me know that organization and math skills are two things I most definitely do NOT possess.

You may recognize the repercussions of you actions, but proceed to do something anyway, in the heat of the moment. Which is true, and also why I was always in trouble growing up. *See Mom & Dad, it wasn't my fault...it was my left brain!



You may discover that you can "guess" your way through S.A.T. questions about as accurately as you can deduce them. *snicker* Guessing is how I got through almost every test in high school.

When given a task, instead of naturally following directions in a linear fashion, you tend to feel the need to know "why" you are doing something or else you may have difficulty with it. It's that whole "questioning" part that also got me in lots of trouble when younger. Why do I have to clean my room? Why do I have to do come in before midnight? Why do I have to drive the speed limit?

You have difficulty processing the information of symbols, and would rather see the real object in order to understand. You probably hated algebra. Now there's an understatement!

You are not a verbal person. When you process your thoughts, you tend to use very few words, preferring instead to illustrate a problem or solution. Me? Non-verbal?


When processing your thoughts and ideas, you use tend to use both illustrations and words. Isn't that a mom thing?: "Ok family, these socks I'm pointing to belong in this hamper I am also pointing to."

At times, you feel the need to see a real object in order to understand it. Which is why I must go to Target and SEE the item on sale, and not just look at it in the ad.

You have the ability to use both creativity and reality to process the information you receive. This is a unique gift that allows you to both focus on rules and regulations but to also act with creativity. Ok, so I KNOW the rules, I just like to be creative and figure out how to get around them. See Dad, I was never rebellious. It was the whole left brain/right brain debate going on.

When processing information, at times you are able to go with your "gut" instincts. Yea, but those gut instincts can be very wrong and get you in a whole heap of trouble.

You have some ability to process data randomly. You are at times able to make "leaps of logic" and discover unique things by thinking "outside of the box." Random thoughts are what my husband says I have daily. He also says I am so outside the box that the box has disappeared.

You show some ability to process data holistically, starting with the whole and working backwards to find the parts, which inform the whole, to form your conclusion. Uummm, What? Process data holistically? Forming conclusions? Me? Say, where did that box go anyhow?

Click here to take the test yourself. Which are you? Right or Left Brained?