Creative Thinking: The Myth of the 'Right-Brained'

It is not necessary to either be born a genius or to drive yourself 'mad' in order to think creatively.

Professor Martindale studied the brain scans of people writing creatively and, in Psychology, in August 2007, he reported that the most creative writing was done by people who could deliberately shift their brain activity from their rear brain parietal sensory cortex to the front brain lobes of their cerebral cortex. Although it was true that the right-hand sides of their brains were involved, so were the left-hand sides of their brains.

The myth that creative people are those who are naturally 'right-brained' is mistaken. You can train your brain to shift from back to front and from left to right.