Do you have left-lateral-neuromuscular disorder? It's a widespread condition that develops in the womb, is found worldwide, and for which, sadly, there is no known cure. Ninety percent of the population shows some degree of this condition. What's worse is that nine percent of the population shows evidence of right-lateral neuromuscular disorder. Barely one percent of people are free of the suffering of bi-lateral asymmetry.
I'm not going to give you an 800 number to donate now to my foundation to research a cure for right- and left-handedness, though it's tempting.
Our humanness displays almost innumerable ranges of diversity. Two powerful cognitive differences in addition to handedness, are evident in our reflexive responses to information. Almost 60 percent of us prefer close focus on one piece of information at a time. Almost forty percent of us prefer a diverse focus manifested by rapid shifts of attention within a broader context.
Analogous to our handedness, both of these awarenesses are available to most of us. We can pivot to rapid shifts of attention within a broader context when entering a crowded room of familiar and unfamiliar people, or an unfamiliar train station. We can shift to focused attention when a math exam is put on the desk in front of us, or if we endeavor to prepare and bake a loaf of bread.
In the same way I have less proficiency with my left hand than my right, I have less proficiency with focused attention than I do with associative attention. Yet you would not be reading this if I hadn't had training and practice for decades in order to develop and maintain my skill at focused attention. Others of you have had to train and practice to manage yourself for landing in an unfamiliar airport and getting to a destination in a foreign city where you don't speak the common language.
May I implore you to reject the notion that you have a deficit or disorder? You have a natural expression of the wonderful diversity of the human condition. Find a map or instructions. or set off on a wander.
You have a frontier to explore.
Warm regards,
Francis Sopper