| Right Brain Inventory |
Left Brain Inventory |
| • Visual, focusing on images, patterns |
• Verbal, focusing on words, symbols, numbers |
| • Intuitive, led by feelings |
• Analytical, led by logic |
| • Process ideas simultaneously |
• Process ideas sequentially, step by step |
| • ‘Mind photos’ used to remember things, writing things down or illustrating them helps you remember |
• Words used to remember things, remember names rather than faces |
| • Make lateral connections from information |
• Make logical deductions from information |
| • See the whole first, then the details |
• Work up to the whole step by step, focusing on details, information organized |
| • Organization ends to be lacking |
• Highly organized |
| • Free association |
• Like making lists and planning |
| • Like to know why you’re doing something or why rules exist (reasons) |
• Likely to follow rules without questioning them |
| • No sense of time |
• Good at keeping track of time |
| • May have trouble with spelling and finding words to express yourself |
• Spelling and mathematical formula easily memorized |
| • Enjoy touching and feeling actual objects (sensory input) |
• Enjoy observing |
| • Trouble prioritizing, so often late, impulsive |
• Plan ahead |
| • Unlikely to read instruction manual before trying |
• Likely read an instruction manual before trying |
| • Listen to how something is being said |
• Listen to what is being said |
| • Talk with your hands |
• Rarely use gestures when talking |
| • Likely to think you’re naturally creative, but need to apply yourself to develop your potential |
• Likely to believe you’re not creative, need to be willing to try and take risks to develop your potential |