A SOLID-PROOF REASON FOR BLOGGING


"Dr. Roger Sperry received the Nobel Prize for his research that revealed that the brain is divided into two halves and each half is responsible for a variety of skills. The right brain, for example, provides spatial awareness of three-dimensional shapes, giving us the ability to see the "whole picture". Artists, musicians. and other creative people tend to be right-brain dominant. The left side is a lot more disciplined. It handles logic, language, math, analytical abilities, sequences, patterns, and details. Engineers, scientists, and other technical people think of themselves as left-brain dominant. Simply visualizing what you have done during the day is a great right-brain activity. You are imagining the people you have met, you are seeing an overview of the day, and you are recreating the experiences. Writing down what you see is a left-brain activity, as you form the words to analyze what you have seen, identify the structure of the day, and record some of the quantifiable knowledge that you have gathered. By writing down your experiences at the end of the day, you are exercising many of the same brain skills that are involved in creating and retrieving memories."
Excerpted from Memory Power: You Can Develop a Great Memory - America's Grand Master Shows You How by Scott Hagwood


Loaned this book from the community library while I was on my way to Poh Lin's house on Tuesday, and I thought that this passage is interesting. I mean, I've known all along that there are two halves in the human brain, and one half is more of "logic", while the other emphasizes more on "creativity". But yet, I never knew that writing a journal is actually a good activity to exercise both sides of your brain.

Ought to blog more.
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