Adapting to a world designed for right-wingers
While the brain plays a key role, the environment is not left out. From school to everyday objects – scissors, can openers, school offices – the world is designed for right-handers. Left-handed people, from an early age, must therefore be ingenious in overcoming difficulties. Result? Their brains are learning to innovate, to find cross-paths, to create alternatives.
According to Katina Bajaj, a clinical psychologist interviewed by Business Insider, this need for constant adaptation is active in them, a form of creative learning. Every day-to-day challenge becomes a field of exercise for their imagination.
It’s kind of like a left-hander must reinvent the way to tie his laces, use a ruler, or cut a sheet every day. A daily training of creativity… without even realizing it.
A singularity to be exploited
So, do we have to see left-handed as potential artists? Not necessarily. But their unique way of thinking, forged by a different brain organization and constant adaptation, gives them an original perspective on the world. A wealth to be cultivated, whether in the arts, the sciences, or even entrepreneurship.
It is also an invitation, for all of us, to rethink our automatisms: what if we learned to use our brains “at the leftrous,” by taking less direct, but more inventive, paths?
To be retained:
Being left-handed is not just a physical peculiarity. It is a way of understanding the world, thinking outside the framework, and turning constraints into creative opportunities. A beautiful lesson to meditate… whatever the hand you use to write.