Maybe Lefty by Lorenzo Arias Carbajal

lorenzo_ariasca — 2015-01-12 16:40:42 UTC

Left side controls..

lorenzo_ariasca — 2015-01-12 16:45:21 UTC

The brain's right hemisphere controls the muscles on the left side of the body, while the left hemisphere controls the muscles on the right side of the human body. When you wink your right eye, that's the left side of your brain at work. Because of this criss-cross wiring, damage to one side of the brain affects the opposite side of the body.

Language

lorenzo_ariasca — 2015-01-12 16:59:54 UTC

In human beings, it is the left hemisphere that usually contains the specialized language areas. While this holds true for 97% of right-handed people, about 19% of left-handed people have their language areas in the right

The left brain

lorenzo_ariasca — 2015-01-12 17:06:31 UTC

The left-side of the brain is considered to be adept at tasks that involve logic, language and analytical thinking. The left-brain is often described as being better at:

Language
Logic
Critical thinking
Numbers
Reasoning

lorenzo_ariasca — 2015-01-12 17:12:37 UTC

Logic

lorenzo_ariasca — 2015-01-13 16:29:59 UTC

While the left brain is not known for its creative prowess, it is associated with certain things that definitely require, or are useful for, a degree of creativity: writing (and language in general), reading, remembering, critical thinking and speaking. This may be useful to keep in ming as just saying the right brain is the “creative” side is more of a generalization and not entirely accurate.The left brain processing information in a logical sense; that is, it likes to give preference to fact and to thoroughly investigate a matter before forming a decision.

lorenzo_ariasca — 2015-01-13 16:35:45 UTC

Critical thinking

lorenzo_ariasca — 2015-01-13 16:41:35 UTC

In other words, the left brain is exceptional at mathematics. Even when subjects in mathematics become more theoretical, the left brain still excels at processing symbols and notations. Of course, the left brain’s proficiency for memory helps them build upon past ideas and use sequences to further their ideas. Combine this with a propensity for logic, and a left-brained person can make short work of difficult mathematical equations and theories. There will be occasions when the right brain’s uncanny ability to rely on intuition come in useful, but the critical thinking and reasoning of the left brain make it a far more reliable mathematician.

lorenzo_ariasca — 2015-01-13 16:43:52 UTC

The Arts

lorenzo_ariasca — 2015-01-13 16:45:34 UTC

The left brain might have gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to artistic creativity, but that doesn’t mean it’s entirely inept. A logical, critical and language-based mind still has a tendency to create (as mentioned under “Self-Sufficiency.”

Obviously, left brained people also make great writers. There may have been some right-brain activity at work in the late Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magical realism, but the clarity he was able to create through this technique was likely a result of left-brain power.

lorenzo_ariasca — 2015-01-13 16:48:52 UTC