After watching this engaging convo between JP & IM about the latter's work on the @divided_brain, I have the sense that my top personal learning priority is shifting my internal locus to my right hemisphere. Suggestions for how to train this? youtube.com/watch?v=xtf4FD…
Training a shift toward right-hemisphere perspective
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IM has a different model than the classic rational-left / emotional-right brain divide, where each hemisphere specializes not in different things but in different perspectives. The left ignores any info that doesn't fit its model; the right integrates unknowns. (👈oversimplified)
Relevant RH capacities: 🎭improvising 👁diffuse attention ⚛nonlinear thinking 🌏big picture thinking ❓embracing uncertainty 😍orienting to what's meaningful 👥seeing people as experiencers & carers (not objects) 🕸seeing world as flowing complex systems (not static concepts)
But I'm not holding these as separate skills to train—my right hemisphere is actually quite good at all of these already! That's its job—and I've trained many of these too. The thing is that these capacities have been restricted by my left hemisphere's dominance.
Most of the corpus callosum (L & R hemisphere connection) is inhibitory connections. I keep going on about internal conflict & I suspect that L↔R interaction represents a lot of that conflict.
It seems to me, based on McGilchrist's work and a ton of my own experience, that shifting one's locus from L to R will produce a major shift in how that conflict shows up, because of the nature of the asymmetry. R can make sense of L perspective WAY better than vice versa.
No doubt I'll write more on that as I read/watch more of McGilchrist's work and integrate it with #PCT (Perceptual Control Theory) and other models. For now: I would love to hear the extent to which you personally resonate with any of this, or how you've worked with it. 🗨 👇