Because You Can Don’t Mean YOU Should? Why?
Are you one of the lucky people born with an ambidextrous brain? Being right and left brain competent can be a heavy load to carry. Not that it is a bad thing, but it could lead to the dreaded ‘Jack of all Trades’ syndrome. Umanaged it could also have you running the hare’s race.
Today, if you listen to all the sage advice on social media from uber succesful people who encourage you to focus…you may start going crazy, feeling that your biology has failed you.
I, for one, love R/L brain people. I find them interesting, fun, experiential, clever and quite frankly engaging. Recently I was with a group of friends in an accountability group. One of my friends lamented about her confusion because she had a list of 30 or so things she loved to do. I found myself totally identifying with her because so do I. The thing I learned early about being R/L brain was that I couldn’t do all that interested me all at the same time, so I implemented my famous quadrant theory solution to help me sort out my R/L brain debacle. In quadrant one were the things that I loved that made me money; innovating, teaching, being an entrepreneur. Then in quadrant two were the things that I loved which set my heart on fire but made no money; playing piano, writing, and reading. In quadrant three were the things I loved but needed money to do them; travel, investing in great ideas and in quadrant four, were the things I loved that I had forgotten I loved. Simply the joy of being; learning to paint, playing in the sandbox and as the Italians say fa niente.
There is no good reason to worry about what may seem like a life of chaos because you have an ambidextrous brain. Chaos theory suggest that chaos is what brings about order in the first place. So, if you ‘suffer’ from the “Because You Can Don’t Mean You Should” dilemma, just embrace it and stay in a state of grace and gratitude that you are in love with and can do so many things. Think Leonardo da Vinci here.
