23 Ways to Give Your Right-Brain a Workout
I’ve compiled a list of things that utilize our right brain skills. Try a few to give your right brain a workout.
I’ve compiled a list of things that utilize our right brain skills. Try a few to give your right brain a workout.
Everyone’s brain is divided into two sides, which are equally important and necessary. The problem is the left side thinks it’s the boss but it’s not. The right brain is designed to lead. And when it doesn’t there are serious consequences.
I have good news and bad news. Let’s do bad news first to get it over with. School favors the left brain kids. The skills you need to do well at school are in the left side of the brain. Listening, organizing, memorizing, writing. The good news is us right brain thinkers have a left side too.
The right side of the mind was designed as a perfect compliment to the left. Take our quiz to see which side is your child’s dominant side.
Dyslexic thinking officially made it into the dictionary as a noun and LinkedIn added it as a job skill for its users to add to their profiles in March 2022. This is an amazing advancement in how we value these divergent thinking abilities.
Right brain creative kids and adults are enormously valuable thinkers, with boundless gifts and abilities, but are highly misunderstood, undervalued and often made to feel like we are less than.To increase understanding on who we are as thinkers and students, I’m doing a 6-month series on what it means to be a right brain thinker.
<I am so excited to share my guest spot on Juliet Hahn’s podcast, Your Next Stop. I always love to tell the story of starting my art education business, Young Rembrandts, and my passion for helping the world understand the importance of leveraging the gifts of right-brain thinking.
We have created a slide show of some famous scientists, inventors and artists and their lesser known counterparts. These dynamic duos demonstrate that every right brain needs a left to be successful in their vision.
Being a right brain thinker comes with a lot of ideas and mental “noise” that can prevent our kids from getting things done both at home and at school. We need to teach them to quiet their minds and keep things organized both internally and externally in order for them to complete those tasks and feel a sense of calm.
Now that you’ve read in depth about what each side of the brain does well and taken the quiz to figure out which side of the brain is driving your child, let me give you a reference guide to help you keep their strengths in mind in your daily lives.