brain usage profile

[mountain_laurel]

this doesn't surprise me at all:

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 80%
Visual : 20%
Left : 75%
Right : 25%

Meredith, you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant with a strong preference for auditory processing. This would normally indicate that you are a methodical and efficient person.

You may structure your free time as a way of getting the most out of it, but you are sufficiently loose enough to wander away from your schedule on occasion. Nobody, however, would call you impulsive.

Your auditory learning style is well-fitted with your attention to detail. Those situations where only visual data are provided could be frustrating to you and your learning curve may go down as your anxiety goes up, unless you have "compensated."

In general you prefer to focus on one thing at a time while learning and give all of your concentration to that. You do not shift gears unnecessarily and may get frustrated when others do so. Your learning style is very much language-based and logical. In that regard, you concentrate on the functional and the applied aspects of problems or situations. You learn by listening and feel most comfortable in those situations emphasizing logic and consistency. You pace yourself in a consistent manner in both learning and work.

One danger that you might face is that you will over organize and over schedule and thus not generally experience spontaneity, and will lose sight of your own needs. In a similar vein you will not "see" others' needs, but will need them to "tell" you. Even though efficient and organized, you may not feel liked or appreciated. In much the same way, you may need someone to "tell" you to lighten up or look at the brighter side of things.

The overall indication is that you will be steady and reflective, be explicit in your approach to situations and have sufficient flexibility to apply different mental operations in those situations calling for them. You can see the "larger picture" and perceptual process in a simultaneous way although it is likely that you will then "translate" that experience into a more systematic and unidimensional category for subsequent usage.

what's interesting to me about this analysis is that there's not really anything in it that's sort of right -- it's pretty much all either very true of me, or completely wrong. i'm certainly *extremely* audio-oriented, but i don't tend to schedule my time at all, and in fact i kind of resent when i have to make plans, because i feel like it robs me of the option of Not Going. i'm quite impulsive. i'm anything but steady. and i'm not a big-picture person at all, i'm much more detail-oriented.

i do have the ability to hyperfocus, yes, and i don't like switching gears. a therapist remarked to me once that she thought the reason i have trouble getting to sleep at night and then again getting up in the morning is that i just plain don't like changes of state. the bit about the learning curve is dead on, but no one would ever call me efficient or organized.

so i don't know what to make of this, really, except that it probably doesn't really mean anything at all.

take the quiz yourself!