Two Brains are Better than One!
Posted on August 26, 2008 - Filed Under Finance
It would appear that the better connected the two halves of the brain, the greater the potential of the brain for learning and creativity. Recent research by Dr. Christine de Lacoste Utamsing at the University of Texas has found that the interconnecting area is always larger and probably richer in nerve fibres in women than in men. We don’t
know why yet, but it has fascinating implications.
Roger Sperry’s work further showed that, when people develop a particular mental skill, it produced a positive improvement in all areas of mental activity, including those that are lying dormant. In other words, the popular belief that painters and musicians (right brain people) must inevitably be poor at mathematics is not true.
Einstein, who actually failed mathematics at school, was a creditable violinist and artist, and has described the insight that gave birth to his Theory of Relativity. Alone on a hill on a summer day, he was daydreaming, and imagined himself riding a sunbeam to the far edge of the universe; but in his mind’s eye he saw himself returning towards the sun. That flash of inspiration, (which as we shall see was probably associated with a theta brain-wave pattern), suggested that for the dream to come true, it required the universe to be curved. Space, light and time had to be curved also.
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