Your brain is an extraordinary, super-powered processor capable of boundless and interconnected thoughts: if only you know how to harness it, studying will cease to be a fraught and stressful exercise, and will be fast, easy and fruitful.
Your amazing brain began to evolve over 500 million years ago, but it's only in the last 500 years that we've discovered that
it is located in your head, and not your stomach or heart (as Aristotle and a lot other famous scientists believed). Even more amazing is the fact that 95 per cent of what we know about your brain and how it works was discovered within the last ten years. We have so much more to learn.
Your brain has five major functions:
- 1 Receiving - Your brain receives information via your senses.
- 2 Storing - Your brain retains and stores the information
and is able to access it on demand. (Although it may not always feel that way to you!)
3 Analyzing - Your brain recognizes patterns and likes to organize information in ways that make sense: by examining information and questioning meaning.
4 Controlling - Your brain controls the way you manage information in different ways, depending upon your state of health, your personal attitude and your environment.
S Outputting - Your brain outputs received information through thoughts, speech, drawing, movement, and all other forms of creativity.
The man with two brains
How your brain manages these superfast processes is even more astounding. The breakthrough discovery is knowing
now that we have two upper brains rather than one, and that, they operate in different degrees in the different mental areas. The two sides of your brain, or your two cortices as they are called, are linked by a fantastically complex network of nerve fibres known as the Corpus Callosum, and deal dominantly with different types of mental activity.
In most people the left cortex deals with:
o logic, words, lists, lines, numbers and analysis - the so-called 'academic' activities. While the left cortex is engaged in these activities, the right cortex is more in the 'alpha wave' or resting state, ready to assist.
The right cortex deals with:
o rhythm, imagination, colour, daydreaming, spatial awareness, Gestalt (that is, the whole organized picture or, as
you might put it, 'the whole being greater than the sum of its parts') and dimension.
Subsequent research has shown that when people were encouraged to develop a mental area they had previously considered weak, this development, rather than detracting from other areas, seemed to produce a synergetic effect in which
all areas of mental performance improved. Moreover, each hemisphere contains many more of the other side's abilities than had been thought previously, and each hemisphere also is capable of a much wider and much more subtle range of mental activities.
Einstein, for instance, failed French at school and numbered among his activities violin playing, art, sailing, and 'imagination games'. And Einstein gave credit for many of his more significant scientific insights to those imagination games. While daydreaming on a hill one summer day, he imagined riding sunbeams to the far extremities of the Universe, and upon finding himself returned, 'illogically', to the surface of
the sun, he realised that the Universe must indeed be curved, and that his previous 'logical' training was incomplete. The numbers, equations and words he wrapped around this new image gave us the Theory of Relativity - a left and right cortex synthesis.
Similarly the great artists turned out to be 'whole-brained'. Rather than note books filled with stories of drunken parties, and paint slapped on haphazardly to produce masterpieces, entries similar to the following were found.
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