13273: Left-brained? Right-brained? Relax. You’re Likely Both.

Raw transcript:

For those of you who know the difference
between leftrained and rightrained and
label yourself, uh, I’ve got a get out
of jail free card for you in this
episode of the VO Heroes podcast.
Yeah. So that whole leftrain, rightrain
thing where people think that leftbrain
people are logical, rightrain people are
creative, and there the twain shall meet
is a bunch of BS. Yeah, I mean, I hate
to break it to you, but it’s a it’s a
hoax. It’s a myth. Uh, no, no larger an
authority than the Encyclopedia
Britannica has a video uh that I’ll give
you a link to in the show notes for this
episode. And if the Encyclopedia
Britannica’s video isn’t good enough for
you, if you insist that it be a TEDex
uh uh authority figure uh you know,
speaker video, etc. Well, there there’s
this uh video as well. I’ll give you the
link for this as well in the show notes.
But here’s the thing. I bring this up
because sometimes we tell ourselves
fairy tales to help us feel better about
our situation in life, especially as
performers. You know, I know a lot of
performers are like, “Oh, yeah, I don’t
I’m not very organized cuz I’m so
rightrained. I’m so creative. I’m so
Yeah, but you know, that could be
debilitating.” Like if you can’t get
places on time, if you can’t organize
your gear for doing self tapes or doing
uh recorded auditions or clips, um if
you take pride in the fact that you’re
scatterrained,
how productive is that? I mean,
seriously, wouldn’t it be better to be
at peace with the fact that you are an
analytical and organized creative type?
still just as creative, but you can
actually get to an appointment on time
and your desk isn’t a mess and you’ve
got things kind of organized on your
hard drive. Okay, I’m getting into
my uh problems, my my anal retentive
problems, but I just wanted to give you
a permission slip. You can be hugely
creative and funny and joyous and uh a
great collaborator and all that and you
can have some order in your life, some
logic in your life. So, just know that
you’re both leftrained and rightrained.
And for those of you that have been
feeling like that, oh my god, I I’m
crazy. I’m nutty. I’m I’m in a I’m I’m
I’m uh you know I’m other
I I’m creative and I’m organized. Well,
now you know it’s been that way your
whole life.
What are your thoughts? Are you
leftrained, right? You’re not you’re not
buying my my explanation here or have
you known for a long time? Is that
what’s Let me know in the comments below
on vioherooes.com.
That’s where the conversation is both
leftrained and rightrained. Uh you can
hit the like button if you like what
you’re seeing. Go watch the videos too.
Go watch the uh the videos that I give
you the links for so you can get the
whole story. They’re very short. Uh hit
the like button if you like what you’re
hearing. And also you can uh subscribe
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this on to an actor who takes great deal
of pride in in wearing that badge of
honor that they are they are not
leftrained.
Okay. I’m David H. Lawrence 17th. Thank
you so much for watching and for
listening and I will see you on both
sides of your brains in the next episode
of the VO Heroes podcast.

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