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Left brain dominant individuals are more orderly, literal, articulate, and to the point. They are good at understanding directions and anything that is explicit and logical. They can have trouble comprehending emotions and abstract concepts, they can feel lost when things are not clear, doubting anything that is not stated and proven.Right brain dominant individuals are more visual and intuitive. They are better at summarizing multiple points, picking up on what’s not said, visualizing things, and making things up. They can lack attention to detail, directness, organization, and the ability to explain their ideas verbally, leaving them unable to communicate effectively.

Overall you appear to be Right Brain Dominant

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Right Brain
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52%

Left Brain
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38%

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“You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Manju Puri and David Robinson, writing in the Journal of Financial Economics, suggest looking for half-full glasses:

“The fact that optimists work more, save more, are less pre-disposed toward retirement, are more likely to remarry and to buy individual stocks suggests that optimism may well be a critical component of economic decision making.” The bright side can be too bright: “Optimism in moderation is associated with more prudent decisions … while the opposite is true for extreme optimism.”

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Kurt Matzler writes in the MIT Sloan Management Review,

“successful senior executives appear to possess the ability to be lucky.” Wait, isn’t luck just luck? “Luck,” to Matzler, actually means the ability “to exploit chance situations… They detect weak signals that others don’t see and recognize patterns before others can.”