I love personality tests... one piece of advice I'd give before starting your own business is to take several of them, especially the Meyers Briggs evaluation. These aren't good at telling you who you are, but they can give you a good idea of your strengths and weaknesses. That helps you know what you will need to outsource in your new business...

Anyway, my buddy CV Rick posted a personality test at MindMedia that tests right/left brain dominance. The site gave me the creeps, but I couldn't resist. So here's my results:

• Auditory : 52%
• Visual : 47%
• Left : 52%
• Right : 47%

Weird... a near 50/50 split in both categories. According to them, I have no brain dominance! Jeez, I've never failed a personality test before...

Bex, you are one of those rare individuals who are perfectly "balanced" in both your hemispheric tendencies and your sensory learning preferences.

Erm, ok... Case in point, part of me looks at this and says 52/47 is neither perfectly balanced, nor does it add up to 100. The other part of me says close enough for jazz. I was always told that a balance between left- and right-brain thinking would be pretty dang cool... but there's a downside:

A problem with hemispheric balance is that you will tend to feel more conflict than someone who has a clearly established dominance. At times the conflict will be between what you feel and what you think but will also involve how you attack problems and how you perceive information. Details which will seem important to the right hemisphere will be discounted by the left and vice versa, which can present a hindrance to learning efficiently.

In the same vein, you may have a problem with organization. You might organize your time and/or space only to feel the need to reorganize five to ten weeks later.

True... I am occasionally conflicted, but I doubt it effects my learning efficiency... I have too many college degrees to accept that premise. However, they totally nailed me on the organization one. I am a frequent reader of Lifehacker, always looking for better ways to organize my stuff and boost productivity... but I keep changing systems every few months. The only system I've stuck with is writing in my Moleskine notebook... probably because its so free-form.

I was pretty flattered by this next part tho:

On the positive side, you bring resources to problem-solving that others may not have. You can perceive the "big picture" and the essential details simultaneously and maintain the cognitive perspective required. You possess sufficient verbal skills to translate your intuition into a form which can be understood by others while still being able to access ideas and concepts which do not lend themselves to language.

Probably correct... I always found it irritating when detail-oriented people couldn't immediately switch gears and see how their specific implementation was detrimental to the big picture... in retrospect, I guess I was the freak!

Your balanced nature might lead you to second-guess yourself in artistic endeavors, losing some of the fluidity, spontaneity and creativity that otherwise would be yours.

With your balanced sensory styles, you process data alternately, at times visually and other times auditorially. This usage of separate memories may cause you to require more time to integrate information or re-access it. When presented with situations which force purely visual or purely auditory learning, increased anxiety is likely and your learning efficiency will decrease.

Your greatest benefit is that you can succeed in multiple fields due to the great plasticity and flexibility you possess.

Booooooo! Okay, so despite my balance, it takes me longer to access pure logic or pure creative parts of my brain. No big deal, since very little of the real world falls into one of those two categories. Of course, that means I'd have no real success at being an artist or theoretical physicist... I've tried both careers, and I'm forced to agree.

Oh well. I guess I'm stuck with dealing with the messy, messy real world.

No problem... I'm flexible. ;-)