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Find Yourself – Are You A Creative Person?

Posted on 06 February 2015 by Srirang Kavali

What is creativity? Is it about cosmic tattoos over body? Or is it about having your hairs grown long and tying them at back? or piercing your tongue or eyebrow with ornaments? No. None of these. These might be the by products of creativity, but real creativity lies in your mind. And believe it or not it’s totally on your fate-gad’s grace. Either you will be creative or not is decided when you were in your mother’s womb.

Creativity is in your mind!!

Your brain has two hemispheres one Right and another Left. Our creativity depends upon the either of these two dominance of the hemisphere on our mind. People having the dominance of right brain over them are called right brained personalities. And people bearing left brained dominance are called left brained personalities.

Left brain characteristics-Left Brain Traits

Our left brain is the centre for reading, writing, speech, language and memory. It is the analytical part of our brain that helps us to think logically and rationally. A few of the most interesting left brain characteristics are: Left brain processes information linearly and sequentially. In other words, it takes each part or piece of information and processes them linearly and sequentially in a systematic manner, in order to solve a problem or come to a conclusion

  • analytical,
  • logical,
  • Sequential.

Right brain characteristics-Right Brain Traits

The right brain is responsible for insight, 3D spatial reasoning, art awareness, imagination and music awareness. If you are right-brain dominant, you tend to be more extroverted than your left-brain counterpart. Musicians, actors, and actresses are commonly right-brain dominant. Subjects that require subjective reasoning, like philosophy and religion, are easier to comprehend. Creative writing courses often use right-brain techniques in combating writer’s block.

They are

  • Creative
  • Impractical
  • Fantasizing

Misconception-Only right brained people are creative

In fact the chunk of creativity lies in both of the hemispheres but their way of manifesting is different. Creativity of left brained person is more practical and less imaginative and as of right brained person whose ideas are less practical but more imaginative. If you tell people to write a story, left brained people would write more practical stories regarding their experiences or current affairs. While right brained people would write about the story sounding supernatural i.e.-“An ants saves the whole world”

Song writing –Union of both brains

Process of composing a song is the best example of union of creativity of both the brains. As right brains thinks about the theme of the song, left brain chooses the words fits into the theme.

Answer the following questions

Right now, my things on my desk are all scattered

Yes
No

I wear a watch

Yes
No

. Some people think I’m psychic

Yes
No

. I’d make a good detective

Yes
No

I keep a to do list

Yes
No

.If I had to assemble something, I’d read the directions first.

Yes
No

. I have considered becoming a lawyer, journalist, or doctor

Yes
No

I pay attention to the words used by speaking person (his emotion comes later)

Yes
No

Before opening or using any product I read the manual first.

Yes
No

I am/was better at algebra than geometry

Yes
No

Pictorial representation gives me beeter idea of topic than verbal explanation.

Yes
No

When I have to make tough decisions, I write down the pros and cons.

Yes
No

I do well at spelling.

Yes
No

I forget to keep things on its places right after their use

Yes
No

I would choose doing a summary over doing an outline

Yes
No

I just watch my favourite TV channels, seldom glance through other channels

Yes
No

I would like to  listen my I Pod that radio, as songs on I-Pod are pre-arranged

Yes
No

(Click on the answers and at the end count your total “Yes” answers and all “NO “answers. If your answers “YES” are more t than “NO”s then you are left brained person. If “NO” answers excel “YES “, then you are left brained person.)

So More “YES”=Left brained person

More “NO”-Right brained person

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