Can you write legibly with both your left and right hands?
Midway through a gig, can you swing the guitar to your left arm and continue strumming the ballad?
If you can, you are part of that 1% of the population who do not have a dominant hand and experience ambidextrousness.
And as you're about to discover, ambidextrousness truly is an experience!
If you are ambidextrous, you're in good company too. Or at least, interesting company.
Other members of this 'exclusive' group include Benjamin Franklin, Kobe Bryant, and even Nikola Tesla, just one of many reasons I featured him on the cover of The Memory Connection:
Many people believe training oneself to use both your hands equally unleashes hidden creativity and even improves memory.
The idea that becoming ambidextrous boosts brain function has existed for over a century.
Moreover, it is also claimed that if you harness this 'power' you can improve your academic performance, decision making skills and grasp difficult concepts quickly.
Can 'learning' to become ambidextrous really have all these advantages?
Let's find out:
Ambidextrousness: A Dual Handed Benefit?
There is a bit of confusion regarding the actual definition of ambidextrousness.
You are ambidextrous, if you can perform any task equally with either hand, for instance, write legibly using either of your hands.
However, if you do some tasks with your right hand and others with your left, experts will term it as being mixed-handed.
Jimi Hendrix is a good example of mixed-handedness. He used his left hand to throw and comb his hair, but he wrote, ate and held the telephone with his right hand.
How To Become Ambidextrous? (Because Few Are Born This Way)
In the 1800s Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke discovered that different hemispheres of the brain handled different functions such as speech, language and even motor functions.
But it was only in 2009 that scientists researched around 25,000 families and found certain genes were responsible for ambidextrousness in people.
Then in 2015, researchers found that brain function within the cerebellum is responsible for creativity.
This certainly proves why many ambidextrous people have unconventional problem solving abilities.
Creative Geniuses, Or: The Celebrities Of Ambidextrousness
Nearly 60 years after his death, neurosurgeons studying Einstein's brain discovered that his brain hemispheres were extremely well-connected. The ability to use the right hemispheres creativity and the left hemispheres logic gave the Father of Relativity a significant advantage from his peers.
Despite a lack of evidence proving Einstein's ambidextrousness, the study confirmed Einstein's non right-handedness.
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