Background
 

Background on Thinking Styles

Since the early 70’s there has been an explosion of new knowledge about brain function and researchers claim they are still just tapping the surface of the mysterious organ we call the brain.  The differentiated functions of the two hemispheres of the brain have been discovered through studying victims of strokes and other hemispheric impairment.  Nobel prize winner Roger Sperry and his associates have been major contributors of research data from their study of split-brain epileptic patients, in whom treating their disease, neurosurgeons severed the core of nerve fibers connecting the two hemispheres. Scientists are now giving us logical explanations of what poets and philosophers have been telling us for centuries.  We have a natural duality of being.  One half of the duality is a sequential, logical thought process which can prove explicitly what the other half grasps simultaneously and seems to know implicitly.  This duality leads us to other opposites which can operate in a complementary or polarized manner.

Left Brain                                       Right Brain
Intellectual........................................Intuitive
Words..............................................Images
Analytic............................................Holistic
Organized........................................Spontaneous
Details.............................................Concepts
Science............................................Art

The competitive nature of western civilization often makes judgments when opposites come into play.  Eastern civilization has done just the opposite...They have seen the harmony in opposing forces.  Where we in the west might say “We are smart and dumb all at the same time!”, they would probably say, “We are smart and smart all at the same time!...only, in different ways”.  At Archimedes Consulting, it is the realization of the unlimited potential in what was once thought to be the “dumb” part of our own duality that drives us to integrate Thinking Styles into the vast arena of human resource development - how we form teams, how we interact with others, how we communicate, and how we sell to name just a few.  Perhaps, the most significant point we may come to is the discovery of our own brain dominance and the possibilities which lie in the other half of our duality.  The choice is to let the hemispheres compete for supremacy or complement for harmony.

“Whole Brain Technology” combines “knowing what we know explicitly,” with “knowing what we don’t know we know, implicitly.”  In our work with people and organizations it is proving to be a breakthrough to the art and science of creativity and communication.