SHADOWS of Scribbles Shadows are vague, incomprehensible, unclear. I’ll try to find some sense and reason until truth emerges, along with hidden gems of wisdom and clarity. Hopefully, these shadows become tame for us to recognize and understand.
UP CLOSE and Personal
MY TIMELINE… Just a simple visual presentation of how it had been…
Aha, now I know you’re a bona fide southpaw, and therefore, your brain is arranged differently from the rest of us, average normal folks. YOU HAVE THIS ADVANTAGE ALL ALONG FROM THE VERY BEGINNING…
Yup. But there exists a body of studies to suggest that your being left-handed actually endows you with certain advantages. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed), for instance, cites the following re left-handedness and intelligence: “Some studies argue a correlation between left-handedness and creativity/intelligence.
“In his book Right-Hand, Left-Hand, Chris McManus of University College London, argues that the proportion of left-handers is rising and left-handed people as a group have historically produced an above-average quota of high achievers. He says that left-handers’ brains are structured differently in a way that widens their range of abilities, and the genes that determine left-handedness also govern development of the language centers of the brain.
“McManus also says that the increase in the 20th century of people identifying as left-handed could produce a corresponding intellectual advance and a leap in the number of mathematical, sporting, or artistic geniuses.”
The Wiki article goes on to mention studies about how handedness affect human thinking: “There are many theories on how being left-handed affects the way a person thinks. One theory divides left- and right-handed thinkers into two camps: visual simultaneous vs. linear sequential.
“According to this theory, right-handed people are thought to process information using a “linear sequential” method in which one thread must complete its processing before the next thread can be started.
“Left-handed persons are thought to process information using a “visual simultaneous” method in which several threads can be processed simultaneously. Another way to view this is such: Suppose there were one thousand pieces of popcorn and one of them was colored blue. Right-handed people—using the linear sequential processing style—would look at the popcorn one at a time until they encountered the blue one. The left-handed person would spread out the pieces of popcorn and look at all of them to find the one that was blue. A side effect of these differing styles of processing is that right-handers need to complete one task before they can start the next. Left-handers, by contrast, are capable and comfortable switching between tasks. This seems to suggest that left-handed people have an excellent ability to multi-task, and anecdotal evidence suggests that there are more creative stems due to this ability to multi-task.
“Right-handed people process information using “analysis”, which is the method of solving a problem by breaking it down to its pieces and analyzing the pieces one at a time. By contrast, left-handed people process information using “synthesis”, which is the method of solving a problem by looking at the whole and trying to use pattern-matching to solve the problem.
“The hypothesis that left-handed people are predisposed to visual-based thought has been validated by a variety of evidence. In the 2004 book Brains That Work a Little Bit Differently, researchers Allen D. Bragdon and David Gamon, Ph.D., briefly described some of the current research on handedness and its significance. “Handedness researchers Coren and Clare Porac have shown that left-handed university students are more likely to major in visually-based, as opposed to language-based subjects.”
Girl, that’s heavy! Everything, except I’m right-handed but I would NEVER look at the popcorn one at a time until I encountered the blue one… and I’m not even ambidextrous! Multi-tasking? Chewing gum and walking at the same time don’t count, do they?
Manong Joe, WOW… hehehe! It is no longer Pacquiao only. it’s more on the heavyweights division now…
Let me see…
Okay. I write using my left hand (although I can do it with my right hand, courtesy of the nuns in school who painstakingly tried to make me do it the other way…), and do most things using my left hand by default…
If, let’s say I am a right-handed person… I can argue that I can acquire intelligence by serious learning…, I can develop creative ideas by extensive research, and practice… okay… maybe it’s a lot easier to do by left-handed people.
…now there goes the “language” stuff… in my case, I need to catch up with technical writing stuff…hehehe!
Okay, no kidding anymore manong Joe… on the “visual simultaneous” and “multi-tasking” stuff… yeah, I think that happens to some… me, as a left-handed person tend to try to do many things simultaneously, but no… more on a “multi-task” mode… What happens it that my energy drains like being sucked up by a lightning? Tsk tsk tsk… And you know how good I am in
being negligent with specific details especially editing hehehe! Good thing I got a “very patient Angel” over here.
Okay, this is for real, Manong Joe… MANY THANKS! THIS IS VERY GOOD STUFF. Thanks for sharing the info… Hmmm… I suppose it would nice to ask the guys if they are left-handed or not, JOKE!
Well, I think it’s obvious; I am enjoying the weekend.
Not to mention “World Vision” as in “visual simultaneous…”
And look at this list of famous left-handed:
Legendary Figures: Albert Einstein, Beethoven, Benjamin Franklin, Joan of Arc, Julius Caesar, Leonardo da Vinci, Mark Twain, Michelangelo, Napoleon, Pablo Picasso, Queen Victoria
Actors and Comedic Talents: Anthony Perkins, Bruce Willis, Carol Burnett, Cary Grant, Christian Slater, Dan Aykroyd, Danny Kaye, David Letterman, David Spade, Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid, Diane Keaton, Dick Smothers, Dick Van Dyke, Don Rickles, Emma Thompson, Fran Drescher, Fred Astaire, Goldie Hawn, Harpo Marx, Henry Ford, Howie Mandel, Jason Alexander, Jason Bateman, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Carrey, Jim Henson, Joe Piscopo, Julia Roberts, Keanu Reeves, Kim Basinger, Lisa Kudrow, Luke Perry, Marcel Marceau, Marilyn Monroe, Mary-Kate Olsen, Matthew Broderick, Michael Landon, Michael Richards, Montel Williams, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert DeNiro, Sarah Jessica Parker, Scott Wolf, Sid Caesar, Telly Savalas, Tim Allen, Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Whoopi Goldberg
Astronaut: Buzz Aldrin
Musicians: Annie Lennox, Celine Dion, George Michael, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Collins, Paul McCartney, Seal, Sting
Athletes:
* Baseball–Brady Anderson, Barry Bonds, Ty Cobb, Ken Griffey Jr., Tony Gwynn, Sandy Koufax, Babe Ruth, Casey Stengel, Ted Williams, Whitey Ford, Steve Howe, Randy Johnson
* Soccer–Pelé, Edson Arantes do Nascimento
* Olympians–Greg Louganis (diving), Mark Spitz (swimming), Bruce Jenner (decathlon), Dorothy Hamill (figure skating)
* Boxing–James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, Marvin Hagler, Oscar de la Hoya
* Football–Mark Brunell, Gayle Sayers, Steve Young
* Basketball–Larry Bird, Nick Van Exel, Bob Lanier, Bill Walton
* Tennis–Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova (ambidextrous)
U.S. Presidents: James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton
And at the famous Sistine Chapel ceiling [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel_ceiling], painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is the iconic image of the Hand of God giving life to Adam. Notice the LEFT HAND?
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Aha, now I know you’re a bona fide southpaw, and therefore, your brain is arranged differently from the rest of us, average normal folks. YOU HAVE THIS ADVANTAGE ALL ALONG FROM THE VERY BEGINNING…
JP - May 2, 2008 at 7:34 pm
HAHAHA! Manong Joe, of all the things that might have caught your attention, its the “left handed” thing.
Ala pacquiao, eh? 
drippingmind - May 3, 2008 at 1:33 am
Yup. But there exists a body of studies to suggest that your being left-handed actually endows you with certain advantages. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed), for instance, cites the following re left-handedness and intelligence: “Some studies argue a correlation between left-handedness and creativity/intelligence.
“In his book Right-Hand, Left-Hand, Chris McManus of University College London, argues that the proportion of left-handers is rising and left-handed people as a group have historically produced an above-average quota of high achievers. He says that left-handers’ brains are structured differently in a way that widens their range of abilities, and the genes that determine left-handedness also govern development of the language centers of the brain.
“McManus also says that the increase in the 20th century of people identifying as left-handed could produce a corresponding intellectual advance and a leap in the number of mathematical, sporting, or artistic geniuses.”
The Wiki article goes on to mention studies about how handedness affect human thinking: “There are many theories on how being left-handed affects the way a person thinks. One theory divides left- and right-handed thinkers into two camps: visual simultaneous vs. linear sequential.
“According to this theory, right-handed people are thought to process information using a “linear sequential” method in which one thread must complete its processing before the next thread can be started.
“Left-handed persons are thought to process information using a “visual simultaneous” method in which several threads can be processed simultaneously. Another way to view this is such: Suppose there were one thousand pieces of popcorn and one of them was colored blue. Right-handed people—using the linear sequential processing style—would look at the popcorn one at a time until they encountered the blue one. The left-handed person would spread out the pieces of popcorn and look at all of them to find the one that was blue. A side effect of these differing styles of processing is that right-handers need to complete one task before they can start the next. Left-handers, by contrast, are capable and comfortable switching between tasks. This seems to suggest that left-handed people have an excellent ability to multi-task, and anecdotal evidence suggests that there are more creative stems due to this ability to multi-task.
“Right-handed people process information using “analysis”, which is the method of solving a problem by breaking it down to its pieces and analyzing the pieces one at a time. By contrast, left-handed people process information using “synthesis”, which is the method of solving a problem by looking at the whole and trying to use pattern-matching to solve the problem.
“The hypothesis that left-handed people are predisposed to visual-based thought has been validated by a variety of evidence. In the 2004 book Brains That Work a Little Bit Differently, researchers Allen D. Bragdon and David Gamon, Ph.D., briefly described some of the current research on handedness and its significance. “Handedness researchers Coren and Clare Porac have shown that left-handed university students are more likely to major in visually-based, as opposed to language-based subjects.”
Girl, that’s heavy! Everything, except I’m right-handed but I would NEVER look at the popcorn one at a time until I encountered the blue one… and I’m not even ambidextrous! Multi-tasking? Chewing gum and walking at the same time don’t count, do they?
JP - May 3, 2008 at 3:59 am
You’re a wonderful inspirational. May all the world come to know your messages.
Lighteraser - May 3, 2008 at 4:32 am
Lighteraser, please spare the light in here, LOL..
(consider that as a warm welcome to Shadows of Scribbles..
Thank you for coming over, you can always come back and join us here. Blessings!
drippingmind - May 3, 2008 at 4:56 am
Manong Joe, WOW… hehehe! It is no longer Pacquiao only. it’s more on the heavyweights division now…
Let me see…
Okay. I write using my left hand (although I can do it with my right hand, courtesy of the nuns in school who painstakingly tried to make me do it the other way…), and do most things using my left hand by default…
If, let’s say I am a right-handed person… I can argue that I can acquire intelligence by serious learning…, I can develop creative ideas by extensive research, and practice… okay… maybe it’s a lot easier to do by left-handed people.
…now there goes the “language” stuff… in my case, I need to catch up with technical writing stuff…hehehe!
Okay, no kidding anymore manong Joe… on the “visual simultaneous” and “multi-tasking” stuff… yeah, I think that happens to some… me, as a left-handed person tend to try to do many things simultaneously, but no… more on a “multi-task” mode… What happens it that my energy drains like being sucked up by a lightning? Tsk tsk tsk… And you know how good I am in
being negligent with specific details especially editing hehehe! Good thing I got a “very patient Angel” over here.
Okay, this is for real, Manong Joe…
MANY THANKS! THIS IS VERY GOOD STUFF. Thanks for sharing the info… Hmmm… I suppose it would nice to ask the guys if they are left-handed or not, JOKE! 
Well, I think it’s obvious; I am enjoying the weekend.
drippingmind - May 3, 2008 at 5:20 am
Not to mention “World Vision” as in “visual simultaneous…”
And look at this list of famous left-handed:
Legendary Figures: Albert Einstein, Beethoven, Benjamin Franklin, Joan of Arc, Julius Caesar, Leonardo da Vinci, Mark Twain, Michelangelo, Napoleon, Pablo Picasso, Queen Victoria
Actors and Comedic Talents: Anthony Perkins, Bruce Willis, Carol Burnett, Cary Grant, Christian Slater, Dan Aykroyd, Danny Kaye, David Letterman, David Spade, Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid, Diane Keaton, Dick Smothers, Dick Van Dyke, Don Rickles, Emma Thompson, Fran Drescher, Fred Astaire, Goldie Hawn, Harpo Marx, Henry Ford, Howie Mandel, Jason Alexander, Jason Bateman, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Carrey, Jim Henson, Joe Piscopo, Julia Roberts, Keanu Reeves, Kim Basinger, Lisa Kudrow, Luke Perry, Marcel Marceau, Marilyn Monroe, Mary-Kate Olsen, Matthew Broderick, Michael Landon, Michael Richards, Montel Williams, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert DeNiro, Sarah Jessica Parker, Scott Wolf, Sid Caesar, Telly Savalas, Tim Allen, Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Whoopi Goldberg
Astronaut: Buzz Aldrin
Musicians: Annie Lennox, Celine Dion, George Michael, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Collins, Paul McCartney, Seal, Sting
Athletes:
* Baseball–Brady Anderson, Barry Bonds, Ty Cobb, Ken Griffey Jr., Tony Gwynn, Sandy Koufax, Babe Ruth, Casey Stengel, Ted Williams, Whitey Ford, Steve Howe, Randy Johnson
* Soccer–Pelé, Edson Arantes do Nascimento
* Olympians–Greg Louganis (diving), Mark Spitz (swimming), Bruce Jenner (decathlon), Dorothy Hamill (figure skating)
* Boxing–James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, Marvin Hagler, Oscar de la Hoya
* Football–Mark Brunell, Gayle Sayers, Steve Young
* Basketball–Larry Bird, Nick Van Exel, Bob Lanier, Bill Walton
* Tennis–Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova (ambidextrous)
U.S. Presidents: James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton
And…Kermit the Frog
That makes you in excellent company!
JP - May 5, 2008 at 2:41 pm
And at the famous Sistine Chapel ceiling [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel_ceiling], painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is the iconic image of the Hand of God giving life to Adam. Notice the LEFT HAND?
JP - May 5, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Wow, Manong Joe.
I think you win,
I mean, with your last posts, I am glad to know that somehow, I have one thing in common with these great folks , 
It is challenging to do something like what these guys did..
Nice motivation and inspiration, 
Thank you so much Manongko for sharing these..
drippingmind - May 7, 2008 at 12:40 pm