Comments | rj_anderson: Braaaaaaaaains!

rj_anderson

Braaaaaaaaains!

May 10, 2007 12:12

Gacked from mistraltoes by way of... lots of other people:

( My Brain Usage Profile, and What It Means )

Comments 9

alawston May 10 2007, 16:30:12 UTC

I share your frustration with other writers' methods. For the moment, my best method does seem to be to sit in a pub and scribble away - the fact that other drinkers clearly think I'm an utter wanker reduces the temptation to daydream. Coffee shops do seem to be for people who want to be seen to be being creative - and in London they're so full of perspiring writers you can rarely get a seat anyway.

The drawback of course is that you eventually get too drunk to write anything decent, but this usually takes a couple of hours, and a couple of quality hours is a good daily goal for any writer with a full time job (or full-time children, in your case).

So, yes, try the pub method!

robinellen May 10 2007, 21:39:16 UTC

Very interesting test -- it said that I was pretty even between right and left, with 51% left and 49% right...hm. :)

kerravonsen May 10 2007, 21:47:15 UTC

My results: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/394887.html

singingtopsy May 11 2007, 05:35:18 UTC

I actually got the exact same "description" for my brain usage (our percentages are almost the same, how weird). Are you left-handed too? (And yes, the results ARE oddly insightful, despite the apparent randomness of the test.)

rj_anderson May 11 2007, 18:03:30 UTC

I'm not left-handed, though I always thought that would be kind of cool. How interesting that we got such similar results!

singingtopsy May 11 2007, 18:48:04 UTC

Especially since (having read your journal for a couple years) I know you're an INTJ and I'm an INFP. I suppose it isn't Myers-Briggs OR handed-ness dependent...

mary_j_59 May 12 2007, 15:03:39 UTC

Well - I thought the test was quite insightful the *second* time I took it, but the results varied pretty sharply from the first time. And my sister's results didn't make sense at all (she is a visual artist, and quite creative; also very musical, and it basically scored her as an orderly mathematician.) What frustrated me most about the test was that, especially with the pictures or the picture/number/word combinations, I could *always* see two responses that made an equal amount of sense to me, while a third was off the wall. Deirdre's results, on the other hand, seem to indicate that, if you are very visual, this test will *always* score you as left-brained. I think she's a good deal more right-brained than I am, and I came out pretty much in the middle as far as that goes. So ( ... )