This document discusses how the right and left brains contribute to different cognitive skills. It provides several tests to determine if a person is right or left brain dominant, such as a color test where you read the color of the word rather than the word itself. It explains that the right brain is more creative, intuitive and visual while the left brain is more logical, analytical and verbal. While people use both, most are dominant in one side. It suggests exercises someone can do to flex the muscles of their less dominant side.

1. Use your Right Brain
By: Afroz Hussain

2. Which Brain You Are?
• Right Brain People will enjoy this presentation
– Because they are quick believer
• Animation test
– www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEr2GfGilw

3. Which Brain You Are?
Thumb Test
People who place their right thumb on top of their left thumb tend to be
left-brain dominant, and are thus more verbal and analytical. Those placing
their left thumb on top of their right thumbs tend to be a right-brain
dominant, and thus excel in visual, spatial and intuitive tasks
Courtesy: http://www.quirkology.com/USA/Experiment_AnalyseYourself.shtml

4. Are you Creative or Analytical?
Our brain has two halves – the right and the left.
People using left part of the brain are usually
logical and analytical. While those who use the
right half of the brain are creative, innovative
and imaginative.
Do you want to know whether you are right or
left brained?

5. Color Test
Read aloud, as quickly as possible,
the color in which the words are written but not
the actual words.
GREEN YELLOW BLUE ORANGE WHITE RED
GREEN BLUE ORANGE YELLOW WHITE
GREEN RED BLUE WHITE GREEN ORANGE
YELLOW ORANGE BLUE GREEN RED WHITE
YELLOW RED BLUE YELLOW ORANGE RED
WHITE BROWN WHITE

6. If you merely read the words,
you are likely to be using right brain.
Whereas, if you read the colors,
you are using your left brain.
Color Test Result

7. I'm creative and he's analytical
 Have you ever thought why some people can
paint beautifully, but have difficulty adding two
and two? Or why some people can understand
the intricacies of calculus effortlessly, but
struggle to write a one-page essay?
 It's all about which side of your brain dominates
- the left or the right.
Left Brain vs. Right Brain

8.  The human brain is bifurcated down the middle
into two parts, popularly known as the left
brain and right brain respectively. We know that
different parts of the brain control different
bodily and mental functions.
 Over the years, a theory that has gained in
popularity is that the right brain and the left
brain are responsible for different modes of
thought and that the way in which a person
thinks will depend on which side of his brain
predominates.
Left Brain vs. Right Brain

9. But this does not mean that a person who is left or
right brain dominated does not use the other part
of his brain. For most people, the two parts of the
brain work in tandem to enable them to function
as well-rounded personalities.

10. Academics and thinking
 At the time of their birth, babies are not
predisposed to be either left brain or right brain
thinkers. Unfortunately, our education system
with its emphasis on rote learning and exam
syllabi is more tuned to encouraging left-brain
activity, often to the detriment of right brain
creativity.
 School examinations are designed to test left-
brain activity and encourage conformity in
thought. There is a possibility that if right brain
skills are not exercised, they may not develop
sufficiently.

11.  When it comes to academics, left brain
dominated children do well at school, as they
are more likely to respond to formal learning.
They exhibit greater responsibility, are quite
content to study by themselves and have
greater concentration.
 Right brain dominated children, on the other
hand, are less likely to perform well
academically. They prefer to study with
company, cannot sit still for very long and are
more responsive in informal settings.

13. A lot of research has been done and is being
done extending the theory of brain
lateralization, learning styles and the
implications for education.

14. Find Hidden Arrow In following Logo

15. Find Second Hidden 1 in following logo

16. Can you find E in following?

17. 2 is more visible than E, can you see?

19. Steve Job is no more the part of Apple

20. FLEXING YOUR BRAIN MUSCLES
• If you are a Left-Brainer, try these Right-Brain Exercises to see how
it feels
• Pay more attention to how you say things vs. what you say. Right-
brained people are more influenced by the tone, pitch, and rhythm
in the sound of your voice when you are telling them something.
• Try to feel how the other person is responding to you. Right brained
people are more emotionally expressive and intuitive. The right
brain tells them when something "feels" right.
• Look more at the big picture, the possibilities, the broad vision with
as much sensual information as possible. The right brain wants to
see, feel and experience what is being said.
• Ask more open-ended questions: "Why?" and "How?"
• When you go on vacation, try going with the flow, and just let things
happen, without planning it out beforehand.

21. If you are a Right-Brainer, try these
Left-Brain Exercises to see how it feels
• Become more detailed, and present your points in a
clear, concise, logical order when you are trying to convince others.
• Challenge your mind with new ideas, such as learning a foreign
language, doing crossword puzzles, or solving brainteasers.
• Focus more on what you are saying rather than how you are saying
it.
• Try to see the linear sequence of events rather than going for the
whole picture first.
• Before going on vacation, try planning it out in detail, so each day
you know what you'll be doing.

22. Thanks