I just made a new Voki. See it here:

I just made a new Voki. See it here:
Rudolph explains the understanding of General Relativity.

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

A Reft Brain

Some people think that one hemisphere of the brain is more important than the other.  I disagree with that.  Everyone has two sides of their brain.  Yes, some people may have one side working better than the other, but they still have two hemispheres.

Here is a model of the brain:

 

See, there are two hemispheres of the brain and neither is more important than the other.

In Right Brain Rising, there were parts that suggested that some people thought that the right brain was inferior to the left brain.  For example, the article said, "As far back as the age of Hippocrates. physicians believed that the left side, the same side that housed the heart, was the essential half." 

Although many people think that the left brain is superior over the right brain, some people think the right brain is more important.  Some people believe in right-brain everything, such as this part from Right Brain Rising, "right-brain cooking and right-brain dieting, right-brain investing and right-brain accounting, right-brain jogging and right-brain horseback riding...."  The author keeps naming more examples of what people believed the right brain could do for us.  They called the right brain a "savior."

I can see why people might think the right brain is more important because creativity is more appealing than logic.  But you need both sides of your brain to do pretty much everything.

Here is one view on the differences between the brains, but they are both important.

You need both sides of your brain!!!!!!!!

Both sides of the brain are important in their own ways, as this diagram shows:

 

But you need both sides of the brain to do this:

A Rube Goldberg Machine that uses the left and right side of your brain!



Learn from Past Experiences

Habits of Mind has a paragraph that is titled "Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations." I, personally, think that that is a great topic because everyone can relate to it and learn from it.

Quotes About Mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes, but that means that have to take what you did wrong and make it right the next.  Learn from what you did wrong and take away the good.  You did something, but now you know how to do it right.
Good Problem Solvers Should Know How to Fix Their Mistakes
In Habits of Mind, the author of the article said, and I quote, "Good problem solvers learn from experience. When confronted with a new and perplexing problem, they will often turn to the past for guidance."  This means that when good problem solvers are confused about what to do, they think about whether they have been in this type of situation before.  If they have, they use that experience to help them solve the "new and perplexing problem."

People have made the same mistakes over and over again.  For example, haven't people learned that violence is not the way to go in difficult situations?  It has been proved many time that that is true, but people still use violence as a way to fix problems. 

Good problem solvers use their knowledge and other peoples knowledge to help them achieve their goals and solve their problems.  Hopefully, they don't use violence.

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