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RHITG BRIAN OR LTEF BRIAN? WHAT A NO-BRAINER!

 

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If yeou’r rignead tish Nelswetter yeou’r prolbaby an accatnount, therefore a left-brainer. If, however, you successfully decipher these first few lines, you have something of the right-brainer. So contagrulantios, you’re moving towards being a whole-brainer!

And whole-brainerdom is good:
it means balance, synergy and fulfilment, and you need to

nurture it!

Research shows that the left side of the brain is the seat of logical analysis and number. (That’s us, fellow accountants!) The right side
is the home of intuitive creativity and randomness.

In general, education overplays the left side characteristics and underplays the right, so devaluing feeling and creativity. Worse, it’s
a long-standing belief that an individual’s preference condemns them forever to be ‘scientific’ and ‘practical’ rather than ‘artistic’ and ’impractical’, or vice versa.

Happily, cognitive science has made huge strides, and has resurrected wisdom that we’d managed to forget *. Whole brain learning is actually the way children learn best, although to most of our generation, unaware of different learning styles, that means nothing. We simply followed the curriculum along pathways which suited the lucky ones! We worked IN learning rather than ON it.

Just ask your kids about the Mind Maps they prepare in school to let the right brain creatively enhance the left brain’s logic.  Mind Maps
use pictures, shapes and colours to express ideas; as a thinking tool they mirror the way the mind works. They are effective because they use the contours hard-wired in the brain, and they assist with anything from strategic planning to note taking. You can read more about how accountants can use Mind Maps right here.

So we oldies have to keep up with our children in the 21st Century! And by smart skills leveraging, we can. All our mental skills, right across the cerebral cortex, are available to all of us. Our brain is Treasure Trove, glistening with untapped talents and delighting us with our own dextrousness in creative problem solving. Its two sides together far exceed the sum of their parts: they empower us to a measure once beyond our imaginations!

Should we quote Obama? Yes we can!

(*Unconvinced? Read Richard Holmes’ The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, and see how poetry, music and science in Britain were once passionate bedfellows!)

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Carol McLachlan

-Careers In Audit

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