If you have a Left Handed Brain, research suggest that you predominantly use the right side of
your brain. Which means we process things differently than right handers. Is this good or bad?
A colorful illustration in wired magazine shows what it's like to be left or right brained. A left brained person
is more analytical while us right brained people (lefties) tend to be more creative.thinkers . The
Nintendo DS has a game entitled, " Left Brain, Right Brain" which you
can use to train yourself to use both sides of your brain.
If this is true, left handers are more inclined to go into the arts, music or anything that requires us to
use our imagination. Some current theories say we will soon move from the Information Age to the
Conceptual Age as described in an artical by Daniel H. Pink,
Revenge of the Right Brain. This basically says that the outsourcing of
routine analytical jobs will continue and companies will rely more heavily on creative and
imaginative people to sell their products or services. Good for us southpaws.
In my own personal experience I remember when I first got out of college I had a job as a Financial Analyst in
a major retail store chain. My main responsibility was to budget/forecast the balance sheet for the upcoming
year (boring). Anytime any changes were made I would manually create a new balance sheet which would take from
three to four hours (depending on the changes). One weekend I went into work and began playing around with a
new machine called a personal computer we
had that had not been used. With it and a software package called Lotus, I was able to completely automate
the balance sheet revision process. On Monday morning when upper management came out with some changes I
was able to return a revised balance sheet in under 30 minutes. Within six months there was a PC on every
desk and I was head of the Financial Planning Department. A few years later I was a Chief Financial
Officer, not because of my analytical abilities but because of my ability to thing outside the box.
The Left handed Brain could have an advantage in the upcoming future of the world. If this is true not only can we rule the world but we can also
help the less fortunate right handers (Ha! Ha!) Being left handed is awesome!