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!