Righty Tighty, Lefty Lossey

My family often refers to Uncle Kevin as an unusual accountant. He is fun loving, a jokester, and a complete kid at heart. Accountants, in my mom’s definition, are serious, unsociable people. She often refers to them as very left brained. Therefore, I associated the accountants’ personality with being left brained. The test that I found online included 50 questions to decide whether I am right or left brained. The results? 53% left brained and 47% right. This can’t be right. I’m not mainly left brained, am I? The results are however very close, so I’ll consider myself as both. Then I thought of the saying "Righty tighty, left loosey", which is used for screwing bolts and jars the correct way. Even though there is of course no connection between the brain and bolts, the saying is actually the opposite for the brain. Left brained people are said to be uptight and rule stricken; not foot loose. That means right brained people are more laid back and calm; not tightly wound. This connection just interested me. The test site also included information on being left brained as well. It states that left brained people are critical thinkers who use logic in everyday life. I guess that’s me. It also states that I receive information best through concise words, numerical and written formulas and technological systems. There is no way that is me. I believe I learn information better visually than through formulas and systems. Being a lab scientist, banker, judge, lawyer, mathematician, librarian, and skating judge. Nuh uh, never could I be any of those. Maybe I answered a few questions wrong.

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