You’r brain

The diagram on the right shows you that the brain has two sides:the left side which controls logical,rational thinking;and the right side which is more dominant in artistic activities which require imagination.

Did you know this?

Psychologists believe that most of us have a lot of creative ability,but often we don’t use it because our daily lives are dominated by the organized,analytical left side of the brain.And this is particularly true at school where much more time and emphasis is given to left brain activities such as mathematics and verbal reasoning,than to right brain activities such as art and music.

Is your school like this?

What’s more ,even when we do activities which are more successful using the right side of the brain,we often use the left side instead.An example of this is drawing.Many people try to identify the thing they are drawing,e.g.an eye or a nose,and then copy their idea of what an eye or a nose looks like.In other words,they draw what they know and not what they see.This is an example of left brain thinking and the result is usually very childlike.