Right brained vs. left brained and how it affects your job

[jakewriter82]

So this question is relevant to journalists, I believe, because we're a minute detail-oriented profession, more so than others perhaps.

But, is it possible for a strong right-brained person to become a solid fact-checker and/or copy editor?
The reason I ask this is it seems to me copy editors need to have strong left-brain traits, and right-brain traits, but more left-brained, it seems.

I consider myself right-brained, means, at least according to this article: I'm more apt to these traits:

uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates

Then there's this link......
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html

I don't see how the dancer can be turning any other way but clockwise. I've tried, but I can't do it.

What do you consider yourself? Does it affect the way you do your job?

 

[jakewriter82]

Ok, sorry, so the article there lists left-brained people as being....

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe.

None of this is anything new, but it's interesting to look at it and think about the terms differently.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Where does Write-brained fit in? :D

 

[buckweaver]

I have strong tendencies toward both left- and right-brained. I'd like to think I make a decent desker, considering it's my day job.

Right-brained helps me on design, left-brained helps me on editing.

 

[Write-brained]

Where does Write-brained fit in? :D

Right here. :)

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/48126/

 

[GB-Hack]

Where does Write-brained fit in? :D

This was my initial thought on seeing the thread title as well.

 

[TheMethod]

That "dancer" has nipples. What is the point?

 

[PHINJ]

It's better to be integrated. I think having left- and right-brain traits are necessary for proper "newspapering." I tend to think the lefties outnumber the righties, however.

 

[deskslave]

It's better to be integrated. I think having left- and right-brain traits are necessary for proper "newspapering." I tend to think the lefties outnumber the righties, however.

Outing alert: PHINJ is Yawn!

 

[Tom Petty]

what's that smell?

 

[mike311gd]

I'm much more on the left-brain side of things, and I think it certainly shows in my writing.

 

[SF_Express]

Man that's weird -- or is it normal -- but I see it mostly going clockwise, but I glance away and look sometimes, and it's counterclockwise.