Are You a Planner or Do You Live Extemporaneously?
ByLeft brained people normally like to have events planned they are going to attend.
Right brained people would like to be informed the night of the event that there is something happening.
A right brained person may want to do something because it will give them the feelings they want to experience. They may not closely calculate the costs and whether they can really afford it. The left brained person will not go for it if it is not in the budget.
We can move from right brain to left brain. The highly lateral person, like myself, moves to extreme right and left brain activity for certain functions. I don’t control in advance those shifts. A mixed function person will have moderate right and left brain tendencies and move back and forth automatically depending on the activity.
At one time, the market place was looking for mainly left brained people. They do the best in school and they usually get the masters and doctorate degrees in specialties or become doctors, lawyers, and accountants.
The creative world was for the right brains and people in college did not usually have an entrée into that world from what they were studying unless it was their major.
We have entered the era of the right brain. Now business wants creative people.
But business wants more than that. It wants people who can move back and forth from right brain to left brain activities, but even business doesn’t always know how it is done. Even though Big business is installing collective software to collect ideas like a net and creating their own servers and clouds, they are not yet instructing people how to play.
Most of our competitor counties are installing creativity curriculum into their educational systems at very early stages and continuing it right through college. China knows that it cannot lead forever with just manufacturing given the nature of currencies. They have created incentives for individuals and businesses to create more patents.
In fact, they want to triple their patents by 2015. They have a patent approval office with a third more people than we have in the U.S. They have beaten us in manufacturing and now are they going to control all the licenses for new products?
A patent is a new idea or design on making something substantially more useful or creating a wider range of uses or something for a different user than originally intended by an existing product. Or it can be something brand new that we have yet to imagine.
Lateral thinking is the challenging of existing assumptions, patterns, uses, designs, or results to name a few. Lateral thinking, like business today, needs a thinker who can move from left to right and back again.
Our left brain of the neo cortex can define a problem or state an issue or pattern that needs to be solved or challenged. Then the left brain has to be suspended to get into real imaginative thinking where we come up with all the possible alternatives They can be good or they can be wacky.
When performed in a group, the wacky ideas can lead to more wacky ideas or to some more practical ideas. The idea is to suspend judgment until all the ideas are on the table.
The left brain is very active from the time we wake up and engineer our way to work and begin our scheduled tasks. To suspend it, we have to get into monotonous activity that bores it. In our culture, people fight boredom like the plague and therefore allow themselves very little creative time. The usual escape is alcohol and TV.
To be constructive, the boredom time has to be more like meditation, running, long walks, biking, hobbies, car washing, house cleaning, taking a shower, gardening, a nap, or sleeping. It has to be an activity without input. Looking at emails, texting, social networking might not be serious work, but they all rob the brain of a chance to refresh.
That is why when we have loaded the left brain with the problem and the data available, we often get the solutions in the most unexpected times. The right brain has access to the left brain data but works on relationships, patterns, intuition, new assumptions.
Once we have created alternatives, the left brain has to evaluate the best ideas. Which ones are really capable of being funded or getting support. . Which ideas would work in the present scheme. Most of us have a best time for left brain thinking as well, Mine is early in the morning when I am fresh.
The fourth step in innovation is combing the best ideas with the needed solution and working through to implementation. This is usually a whole brain exercise. When our brain is fully synchronized the frontal lobes are coordinating our rational and emotional thought into the most productive output
Getting yourself into top physical condition with extremely healthy eating habits and exercise balances the nervous system and brain chemicals, dopamine and acetylcholine to create optimal beta and alpha waves.
If you want to be a thinking machine and propel your life into the next level, maximize your conditioning and thinking skills. We have a mental war to fight.
The Natural News.com had predictions for the new year and part of one was:
“..we’re going to see more people rebelling against the status quo while simultaneously expanding their own awareness of the bigger picture — how things work in our world and what their role might be in uplifting our shared reality.”
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