Left hemisphere | Right hemisphere |
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The left hemisphere is detail-oriented, prefers mechanisms to living things, and is inclined to self-interest, | The origin of all experience is in the right half, the master, that sees everything in its environment, is holistic and intuitive yet wide-focused. |
The left brain, the emissary, focuses on specific details of the experience and analyses it and returns this detailed picture to the right half, | while the right hemisphere has greater breadth, flexibility and generosity. |
The left brain uses language precisely, | more abstractly, the right brain understands meaning, metaphors and jokes. |
The left half organizes, manipulates and controls details for a specific purpose, | in the right brain the details become integrated to enrich the wider picture. |
The left wants consistency, it measures, classifies and creates labels and abstractions, and will happily disregard inconsistent facts or information! | the right brain is responsible for empathy; relationships; and appreciating the meaning of gestures, facial expressions and tone of voice. The right half handles the greater part of our emotional life. |
The right half experiences time as a continuum, it responds to music, poetry, the spiritual and moral dimensions. |
Andrew Lewis is an Adult ADHD Coach, writer and founder of SimplyWellbeing. He has over 16,000 hours of experience in coaching over 600 adults with ADHD, including many ADHD business professionals and ADHD creatives. Andrew ran a major ADHD support group and even an ADHD diagnostic clinic for a while. Andrew is an adult ADHD Coach backed with business expertise from a twenty years career in software, from roles in programming, through marketing, sales and to running a few software start-ups.