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The Struggles Of Being Right-Brained

Being right-brained has many benefits and downfalls.

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The Struggles Of Being Right-Brained
Julia Caesar

When it comes to learning, communicating or participating in daily tasks, people who are considered right-brained do things a little differently. As we are the more artistic people on the planet, there are many pros and cons to being a right-brained person.

Some pros include:

1. Right-brained people are creative.

Right-brained people tend to be more skilled in the arts. We are normally seen taking classes in music, art and writing, and actually enjoy them. We are visual people, preferring to learn with pictures and charts, and love to problem-solve in our own way.

2. Right-brained people are more impulsive.

Whenever we are put into situations, we tend to think less. We make quick decisions, which can most likely hurt us. If you are making a decision on spending, you may make the wrong choice because you wanted the item, but you didn’t actually need it. On major life choices, you may choose a path that you think is right, but then you may later realize that the other choice was the better one.

3. Right-brained people are hands-on learners.

We like to learn by having people give us step-by-steps of how to do something. In class, we want examples, visuals and extra guidance to help us learn. We like connecting to real-life examples and if we don't have that, it's hard for us to learn.

4. Right-brained people are communicators.

We are the best at communicating. If we are meeting someone new, they can know our whole life story by the time we’re finished having a conversation. We can remember details well, and use our creative skills as we talk to gain that social relationship with a person.

5. Right-brained people are imaginative.

Our imagination can run wild at different points in time. Right-brainers are daydreamers, and love to visualize different scenarios in our minds. We love to make up and tell stories with as much detail as possible.

6. Right-brained people are more emotional.

Right-brainers are more talkative. Naturally, we start conversations and like to tell people exactly what we’re thinking. If you ask us how our day was, we will tell you in full detail about what we liked and did not like about it. We constantly overthink and overreact, as we often pay too much attention to the little things

Some cons include:

1. Learning might be difficult

If you get a professor in college who lectures too much, right-brainers may not be able to learn well. Just by speaking to us, we aren’t able to retain information as quickly as others are able to. We need examples and hands-on learning or else we will get lost during classes.

2. Working by yourself can get hard.

If you have to work on a project by yourself with no guidance or help, you may be in trouble. Right-brainers need the extra assistance to push through work. By working in groups, this allows our imagination to flow because of the ideas you may get from others. If we just work alone, we might not be able to get our ideas straight.


3. Certain subjects are hard for you.

With the education system, you are required to take a full range of classes that you might not want to take. For example, math and sciences may get boring for right-brainers, and might be too difficult to understand. The analysis and logic involved in these subjects may confuse our minds. If you give us an artistic subject, we will be able to understand the class fully.

4. Organization is not our strongest suit.

Organization is hard for imaginative people. When writing essays, we gather our thoughts only as we put words onto paper. We cannot lay out our topics and write from there. We are go-with-the-flow type of people.

5. We lack time-management skills.

Time-management is not one of our strengths. We have the tendency to put things off until the last minute, which causes us to rush and it reflects in our work. It makes us feel stressed out because we think we have more work than we do.

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