RIGHT-BRAIN CHARACTERISTICS

— Manifests unconscious awareness

— Follows gut feelings and intuition

— Deals with wholes, how parts work together

— Uses fantasy and imagination

— Has internal focus

— Uses random, circular, simultaneous thought patterns

— Skips around, is a multitasker

— Keeps an ongoing mental list of to-do items

— Imagines the big picture

— Focuses on how something is said (feelings)

— Learns by doing or by seeing a picture

— Makes decisions based on feelings

— Is fluid

— Is chaotic, unstructured

— Is timeless

— Is oriented to the now

— Dives in, figures out by doing

— Thinks divergently, uses mind mapping, brainstorming, associative activities that generate even more ideas

— Impatient with how, needs to know why