A peek inside my brain

[fajrdrako]

Another interesting item gakked from dargie -

Your Brain Usage Profile

Auditory : 55%
Visual : 44%
Left : 42%
Right : 57%

My first impression is that these numbers are strangely balanced - I would have thought my left/right brain difference would be greater, mostly since I consider myself highly verbal but non-mathematical. This probably means that I don't really understand the difference between the hemispheres - does anyone?

Here's what the text says to explain it - I'll put my interspersed comments in italics:

fajrdrako, you show a slight right-hemisphere dominance with a moderate preference for auditory processing, an unusual and somewhat paradoxical combination of characteristics.

Paradoxical? that sounds about right.... Yeah, I'm paradoxical. I've been told that before often enough.

You are drawn to a random and sometimes nonchalant synthesis of material.

Nonchalant? I'm not quite sure how they mean that.

You learn as it seems important to a specific situation, and might even develop a resentment of others who attempt to direct your learning down a specific channel.

Oh my goodness. That is so true. I love to learn, but I want to learn what I want to learn in my own way and on my own terms; I hated school (despite good marks) because they wanted to direct my learning down a specific channel. I didn't like their channels. Not in the least.

Your right-hemispheric dominance provides a structure that is only loosely organized and one which processes entire swatches of reality, overlooking details. You are emotional in your reactions and perceptual more than logical in your approach, although you can impose structure and a language base when necessary.

I can't argue with any of that.

Your auditory preference, on the other hand, implies that you process information sequentially and unidimensionally. This combination of right-brain and auditory modes creates conflict, as you want to process data more rapidly than your natural processes allow.

Yes. Didn't I say a while back that my primary personality flaw was impatience?

Your tendency to be creative and free-flowing is accompanied by sufficient ability to organize and be logical, allowing you a reasonable degree of success in a number of different endeavors.

Success - what a nice word.

You take in information methodically and systematically which can then be synthesized rapidly. In this manner, you manage to function consistently well, although certainly less efficiently than you desire.

You got that right!

You prefer the abstract and are a theoretician at heart while retaining the ability to be practical.

Being practical isn't my best thing.

You find the symbolism in a great deal of what you encounter and are something of a "mystic."

I'm not sure this is immediately obvious about me. I thought it was a sort of private thing.... Not exactly a secret, but not something I often talk about.

With regards to your lifestyle, you have the mentality which would be good as a philosopher, writer, journalist, or instructor, or possibly as a systems designer

How did "systems designer" get into this list?

or social worker. Perhaps most important is your ability to "listen to your inner voice" as a mode of skipping over unnecessary steps to achieve your goals.

And sometimes I have to be careful, or I skip over too much and have to backtrack....

This seems almost spooky in its accuracy.

Comparing this with dargie's results, we're the same exactly in left/right dominance (this doesn't surprise me) but inverted in auditory/visual.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

There has to be a balance in every group, so for every soppy romantic like me I guess there has to be a cynical romantic to keep the equilibrium.

It was taking me a long time to do that quiz too, but I was downloading Firefly at the same time - it's a wonder I could do anything!