Right Brain Inventory Left Brain Inventory

• Visual, focusing on images, • Verbal, focusing on words,

patterns symbols, numbers
• Intuitive, led by feelings • Analytical, led by logic
• Process ideas simultaneously • Process ideas sequentially,
step by step
• 'Mind photos' used to Words used to remember
remember things, writing things, remember names rather
things down or illustrating than faces
them helps you remember
• Make lateral connections • Make logical deductions
from information from information
• See the whole first, then the • Work up to the whole step by
details step, focusing on details,
information organised
• Organisation ends to be • Highly organised
lacking
• Free association • Like making lists and
planning
• Like to know why you're • Likely to follow rules without
doing something or why rules questioning them
exist (reasons)
• No sense of time • Good at keeping track of time
• May have trouble with • Spelling and mathematical
spelling and finding words to formula easily memorised
express yourself
• Enjoy touching and feeling • Enjoy observing
actual objects (sensory input)
• Trouble prioritising, so often • Plan ahead
late, impulsive
• Unlikely to read instruction • Likely read an instruction
manual before trying manual before trying
• Listen to how something is • Listen to what is being said
being said
• Talk with your hands • Rarely use gestures when
talking
• Likely to think you're • Likely to believe you're not
naturally creative, but need to creative, need to be willing to
apply yourself to develop your try and take risks to develop
potential your potential
While we have a natural tendency towards one way of thinking, the two sides of our brain
work together in our everyday lives. The right brain of the brain focuses on the visual,
and processes information in an intuitive and simultaneous way, looking first at the whole
picture then the details. The focus of the left brain is verbal, processing information in an
analytical and sequential way, looking first at the pieces then putting them together to get
the whole.

he Left Brain

The left brain is associated with verbal, logical, and analytical thinking. It excels in
naming and categorizing things, symbolic

abstraction, speech, reading, writing, arithmetic. The left brain is very linear: it places
things in sequential order -- first things first and

then second things second, etc. If you reflect back upon our own educational training, we
have been traditionally taught to master the 3

R's: reading, writing and arithmetic -- the domain and strength of the left brain.

The Right Brain

The right brain, on the other hand, functions in a non-verbal manner and excels in visual,
spatial, perceptual, and intuitive information.

The right brain processes information differently than the left brain. For the right brain,
processing happens very quickly and the style of

processing is nonlinear and nonsequential. The right brain looks at the whole picture and
quickly seeks to determine the spatial

relationships of all the parts as they relate to the whole. This component of the brain is
not concerned with things falling into patterns

because of prescribed rules. On the contrary, the right brain seems to flourish dealing
with complexity, ambiguity and paradox. At

times, right brain thinking is difficult to put into words because of its complexity, its
ability to process information quickly and its

non-verbal nature. The right brain has been associated with the realm of creativity.

Left Brain

Words (verbal)
Logical
Black & White
Numbers
Sequence
Analysis
Lists
Critical Thinking
intellect
rational
analytic
analysis
parts
sequential
objective
logical
convergent
abstract
directed
propositional
linear
sequential
successive
reasoning
mathematical
speaking
accuracy
digital
dominates
pattern user

right brain

Images (non-verbal)
Intuitive
Color
Rhythm
Imagination
Daydreaming
Dimension
Creative Thinking
intuition
intuitive
holistic
relational
synthesis
wholes
intuitive
subjective
random
whimsical
divergent
concrete
free
imaginative
nonlinear
multiple
simultaneous
mystical
creative
visual-pictorial
aesthetics
analogic
submits
pattern seeker