Without reading is it about handedness or political leaning?
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I thought it was political at first, too.
There's a strong correlation there.
Empathy. Understanding what causes emotional reactions and building on that rather than doing your own routine and being mad others won't agree with you.
Conservative comedians continually get "canceled" because their act only punches down and makes fun of other people, so their content only resonates with their own demographic. They lose audience because their content goes stale. There's a difference between the punchline being that the target is gay vs the punchline being what a gay person does and capturing that nuance. Adam Corolla had the same boring complaints about society, about economy cars, about not seeing enough tits, about sucking dick, over and over. Robin Williams was the full spectrum of range from Good Will Hunting to his stand up to his Genie and Doubtfire and Birdcage (separating from acting because of his amount of successful adlib).
Conservative actors only know one role: their idealized selves. I bet you they're a tough guy with no emotional range, shadowing John Wayne pretending to be a cowboy. Joe Pesci is a real NYC tough guy. That's his act, condescending tough guy. Even with his peak of comedic performance, Vinny, he was just the same character but brought hilarity by being woefully out of place for the plot. Robert De Niro was a theater kid. He makes bank as a mobster but imagine trying to watch Pesci play Captain Shakespeare in Stardust.
Conservative painters/physical media artists... I can't think of any. Maybe I'm just uninformed. Closest I can think of are some photographers that produce images I call "informational" rather than artistic. Capturing a moment in time as if the street view car just drove by, not capturing a mood or feeling.
Anyway, I wonder if the handedness is actually rooted in which kids were tormented in a strict Christian school vs who had a more explorative and welcoming upbringing. Not that people don't come out as lefties alter, but that's gotta hamper their skill-honing years for art.
There is a lot of creativity in the manufacturing world. I'm think more where someone repurposes the engine of their weed whacker to build some contraception that can split a piece of wood into 10 pieces in one go. It's not safe, by it works.
I agree that the traditional arts are more left leaning. Music could be one of those where it's more balanced. Country music is full of fake cowboy conservatives, and rock isn't without it's shit heads either.
obviously written by a rightey
Because we have to create a way to write notes without smearing the ink on the page at a very early age.
Just do what I did, learn to write with your right hand. As a bonus only you will be able to read your own handwriting, at least some of the time.
Have you considered medical school? It sounds like you have a natural predisposition to the field.
I thought the whole left brain/right brain thing was discredited already. This appears to confirm it's not the case.
The left and the right brain actually do different things in people. Just look at the epyleptic studies where they surgically separated the two halves of the brain. When blocking off the right part of the eye, those people were not able to name every day objects like a pencil. But they could pick it up and use it. When blocking off the left side of the eye they were able to call it a pencil, but not use it.
Yes, to an extent they do different things, but that's not what the person you were replying to was talking about. For several years there was this idea that "left-handed people are right-brain dominant, and right-handed people are left-brain dominant." And along with that went this whole astrology-tinged thing about the right brain being the creative half and the left brain being the analytic half and whatnot. It's pretty much nonsense.
Im a lefty, with zero creativity. In fact, I've heard all my life that it was the opposite, that right handed people were more creative, so maybe its just junk science from the beginning, after all.
Same here. Both my brother and I are left-handed. I'm the analytical engineering type. He's the musician type. I'm about as creative as an algorithm. He got the creative talent genes in the family.
I think the issue is the study treated it as a binary thing...
Handedness isn't binary, very few things are when talking about human anatomy.
Like, 4 wheel drive is an equal 50/50 split. Then obviously full front/rear drive.
But "all wheel drive" can be anything from 80/20 to 60/40, or theoretically any random ratio.
So while people who prefer their left hand. There's a difference between a sleight preference and someone who's right hand is so useless it's easier to hold a guitar upside down.
Those people at the extreme end may be more creative when isolated out as a subgroup
Lefties do it right!
Maybe so. But righties make trash.
They can’t even meme right