What are YOU thinking?

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The decisions we make are often informed by our state of mind. How we're feeling at the time of making them. Depending on what we have on our minds at any one particular time we are using either the right or left side of our brains.

Often when we have a major decision to make, it can be useful to be informed by both sides.

When looking at the animation below, most people see the girl spinning anti-clockwise. I almost always initially see it spinning clockwise.

If anti-clockwise you are predominantly a left sided brain thinker. Clockwise, a right sided brain thinker.

If you focus and think about different things you can actually change the direction the girl spins and switch between both halves of your brain. It takes a little practice and it's pretty amazing to see!

It's often very useful to take the time to consider major decisions and get both sides of our brain in gear. Especially when making business decisions and evaluating our own responses to certain threads

Which side are you using right now?

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LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

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RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

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Thomas
#mind warriors #based #brain #decision #left #making #side
  • I see it both ways easily - last time I saw this one it going anti-clockwise first, this time it was clockwise. Close my eyes for a second, reopen and it changes....

    Evidently I've got an ambidextrous brain. :p
  • That's spooky, Tom. And you're right, I did get it to spin in the opposite direction.

    Now how do I get it to go back the other way. This is driving me crazy...

    KJ
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    • Oh no, Joe! You've broken your brain.

      Thomas
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  • I have never seen the girl spinning anti-clockwise.

    I'm hopeless. Either that or the emperor has no clothes and she is always spinning clockwise.
  • Actually with this image I use my right brain. And to check it with my left brain, I need to relax and lay down thinking that the girl was on the top of the glass and spinning. Anyone got my point?
  • Clockwise. Hit the nail right on the head too. Fascinating.
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    • Very clever Tom.

      I reloaded the thread multiple times because the first time the picture
      was definitely moving the left leg from left to right.

      Upon subsequent reloads, I noticed that on a few, the picture actually
      changed rotations in the middle, going from right to left and then left to right.

      So in actuality, this picture does both.

      It's not an optical illusion and it isn't either a matter of perception. The
      figure actually does change rotations.

      To see it clearly, keep your eye planted not on the leg that's turning but
      on the foot that is planted on the floor.

      I think if we could examine the code for this, we will see that it does in
      fact change rotation.
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  • All I see are nipples spinning in a clockwise direction....

    I've been staring at that for some time. It ALWAYS goes clockwise....oh, nm...sneaky.
  • I saw her spinning clockwise at first glance and on subsequent loads. I am certainly a "right" brainer, no doubt about it.
  • I look to her left, she turns to the right.
    I look to her right, and she turns left.

    When I look in the middle, my IQ drops and screws up both sides.

    Grant
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    • Are you Voguing? For real?



      Thomas
  • We have a winner!

    We make our own reality and react accordingly, based upon how we perceive the world around us!

    Way to go, Paul.

    Anyone done the Gorilla test..?

    Thomas
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    • Love that gorilla one. Showed it to my wife and watched her reaction the second time she watched it. Priceless.

      I just did the man in the coffee beans one from the article. And it proved beyond a shadow of a doubt I have too much time on my hands

      What happened to A-1s' post? Hmmm...

      KJ
    • There is no gorilla - he simply wasn't there.

      Mr Wagenheim, I can't advise you how to view the animation frame by frame but I can assure you that it is an optical illusion - no coding trickery that makes her spin one way and then the other, it's simply how you choose to be viewing the world at that precise moment.

      This isn't just a fun trick, it's a really useful brain exercise. Learn to use both sides of your brain and you have the opportunity to realise more potential, communicate more efficiently and, dare I say it, possibly make more money.

      Your choice.

      Peter
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    • Personally...

      ..that is very entertaining..I used to work on myself as part of
      my personal development on a ceiling fan in my house and made
      myself see the fan stand almost still while turing..

      However,

      The left brain is about language..meaning like, writing whatever..

      The right brain is about graphics stuff..Using my right brain is when
      I designed my systems..even thoug my systems are very simple, they
      have never been able to be copied..

      The switch from left to right or the other way occurs about every hour
      and a half pretty close..

      To determine which side we are using is very simple, by noticing when
      we breath which nostril breath in more easily..

      When ever we have writers block, it's probably we are in the right side..
      That does not mean that we can't continue to write it's just more freely
      when in left brian..

      If you care to switch just block the nostril that is breathing more freely
      until it switches..I'm not sure if it works for everybody though..

      rey
  • My mother CLAIMS that since she is left handed, she is the only one in her right mind. I will have to let her know that I saw your animation spinning clockwise and that's the ONLY way it shows for me.
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    When i stare directly at it, it spins clock wise

    When i was reading what you said out of the corner of my eye it was spinning counter clock wise
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  • I love this kind of stuff --- I saw her spinning clockwise for quite awhile before there was a switch.

    So is there a way to use this as a tool in order to help us with our marketing tactics and work?
  • Absolutely amazing. What a great reminder that we really do create our own reality.

    I had two of my sons come in. Between the 3 of us, we got 3 completely different "results".

    The fun part was explaining to them that none of was "right" or "wrong". We simply filled in the blanks and came to our own conclusion.

    We all do that in many areas of our lives, don't we?

    Thanks for sharing!
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  • crazy!!

    at first she was anti-clockwise ...

    then i scrolled back up to your words and could only see half of her and she started going clockwise ....

    and now everytime i look she is going clockwise ...

    insane!!
  • which type of brain test is this
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    • The one between most people's ears
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  • How cool is that

    One question.. what does it mean when it flips vertical?

    Louis
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  • The brain work weird and is very mysterious....

    Thanks so much for that!

    Omar!
  • Wow, I'm excited. I can see it going left!!

    I squeezed my eyes nearly shut and peeked out a little and then it turned the other way. When opened them, it continued to turn left until I squinted real hard and it turned right again. But I can do see it both ways at will now.
  • Tom,
    I love this pic. I saw it in the mind warriors forum before and right from the start I could see her going in both directions. It is all about perceptions. Some will see it one way and one way alone, others will see it the opposite way and still others control their own perception and the ways in which they veiw the world and this image.

    Great to see all the different minds in here and the way others view and perceive things.

    Sylvia
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    • Roger,

      That's one effective lesson to take from it. The time savings alone can be huge, not to mention the expense avoided from bad decisions.

      For me, the most useful parts of figuring out that perspective is malleable were learning to adjust my own and to see those of others. It's very hard not to like people when you realize how much we're all alike.


      Paul
    • Thanks Sylvia. Yes, reading others' views and reactions has been a real treat. It was part of the motivation for posting and ultimately formulated a considerable amount of the "message," by creating real examples!

      Great blog post today btw.



      Thomas
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  • Bizarre....

    At first I could only see it spinning clockwise. Finally with much effort, if I looked down at the shadow, I could change my perception and see it spinning the other way for only a few seconds, before it randomly started to spin clockwise again.

    Continuing to practice, I'm now at the point where I can control which way I see it spinning by looking at the shadow of the shoe, and I'm gaining a bit of control over which way it spins by looking at the whole thing.

    If I continue to practice, I think I could develop complete control over which way I see it spinning.

    Fascinating....I'm right brained by nature, but apparently easily trainable. Hmmmm.....that's information I should probably keep away from my wife.
  • Did you guys see the 'find the man in the coffee beans' picture as well?

    http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?p=27
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    • Hi Paul,

      (I added a note to my previous post)

      Likewise, for the first sentence. But I must admit the major benefit you mentioned in the second would be different for me. I can see the benefits of that benefit though.

      I find that currently it is helping me to have more accurate expectations, and therefore be more comfortable with outcomes - whether they are my own, or of others. And in a way, perhaps rather than helping me to see how alike people are, that was something that I over-estimated previously. Perhaps, I didn't realise how differently I saw things to other people, or why.

      Also, by realising how much perceptions are malleable, we can take more personal control of them and be more picky about who we allow to alter them. Time for bed. I'm overstraining my pea-sized head-jelly.
  • WOW!..this is unbelievably cool.

    I saw it running counterclockwise at first then when I scrolled down and refocused on it again it went clockwise. Which shocked me. I started to think like Steve Wags and thought it was a timed animated GIF.

    Great fun!
    ______
    Bruce
  • OK I figured it out now. As another poster suggested just focus on the shadow of the two feet at the bottom. Just look away and look back and it will change direction. I can now do it at will. Over and over again.

    Very interesting.
    _____
    Bruce
  • Clockwise, that's really cool!
  • We only get so many thanks per day, so I just want to write to thank everyone that took part in this thread. It's been a *real* education and I genuinely have read some really valuable stuff.



    Thomas
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  • To relate this to IM, try blinking your eyes while thinking about CPM and conversion rates vs. a CPA network check and imagine how you will spend it.

    This works pretty well.
  • I had been looking at it for a few minutes seeing it turn nothing but clockwise. My partner walked in and I asked him which way it was spinning for him. He said clockwise. We watched for a few seconds and he said "Woah it just changed! Is it anti-clockwise for you now?" "No," I replied. For him it seemed to flip back and forth seemingly randomly. It was only the fact I was looking at the same picture that he could believe it wasn't doing it by itself.

    Yet no matter what I do, I can't get her to spin any other way but clockwise.

    I'm very much the girl of a million ideas and strategies (too many, part of my problem), and like a previous poster, not so good at implementing. He quite often takes on my discarded projects and makes them work quite well.

    Quite fascinating, now, back to trying to make her spin the other way. I must see this to believe it! He better not have been tricking me!!
  • Awesome thread. 100% clockwise but I think I know how to get some balance!

    So which IM tasks are best suited left side and right side?
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  • Hi,

    Just wondering, but did many people replying here follow this link -

    NeuroLogica Blog Left Brain - Right brain and the Spinning Girl

    ...and read this -

    :rolleyes:
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  • Hi Roger,



    Yes...I knew that the use of the image as a left/right brain test (and many news stories surrounding it) was wholly redundant. I used the widespread tabloid pop psychology angle to draw people in. Like I said in my reply to you, I was really interested in people's responses (and again as previously stated) in order to compound the message about perspectives. Also out of sheer curiosity concerning how people perceive themselves!

    When Paul M posted the "truth" I replied,

    This was the real message I was trying to get across and Paul Myers encapsulated and expanded it much more eloquently than I ever could when he wrote;

    Your input was (as always) invaluable too.

    In light of a recent kerfuffle I was involved in concerning mindset and self help products, I thought this would be a far better way (or should that be simply a Thomas way?) of showing people that their own subjective perspective really does create their reality.

    I thought it a more valuable and much more self-educational exercise to give people their own "aha!" or eureka!" moment rather than telling them that they can have anything that they want if they just ask the universe for it, for example!



    Like I wrote in that discussion, nobody can motivate anyone else. We all have to do it for ourselves. I hope this practical example, rather than generalised rhetoric, has been of value in achieving this end.

    Thanks to Sean (IM Reporter) for the inspiration.

    [Disclaimer: No neurons where harmed during this experiment, although I hope that many millions of them have had to work a little harder...and hereafter will continue to do so.]



    Thomas
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  • Research in neuroscience and neuropyschology is changing what we thought of the brain. If you sufer brain damage young enough your brain can retrain itself to run function in different areas and compensate. Bit of a bummer if you get brain damage later in life though.

    While the spinning girl may not be scientifically valid, Tom's intent and purpose was validated. Still, things like this always get us in - maybe the fact she changes direction so much (my perception) reflects how scattered my brain is!!
    [IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/NATURA%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.jpg[/IMG]
    Thanks for the diversion, Tom. :-) [IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/NATURA%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg[/IMG]
  • I could only see her going counterclockwise, so I guess I'm not as brain flexible as I thought I was. That was bit of a let down. This did remind me to put back the 2nd cupcake, though, so thanks for that! -CP
  • Cool. I only see the girl moving clockwise.
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    • Hi dynamicmentalfitness,

      Interesting, but I disagree. It seems you have missed something.

      If Steven had maintained an open mind, once he found himself unwilling to accept the illusion, fine. But he actually jumped to an incorrect conclusion which was -

      Therefore he was completely incorrect. And many of us (who bothered to read the thread, and therefore the accompanying text which explained that it was nonsense to draw conclusions about being left sided or right sided) proved quite adequately that we do not accept 'every facade presented as gospel.'
    • That just means you're weird.

      Grant
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  • There's a magic land that exists in parallel with our world. People there dwell for a cause and their lives are so fulfilling. I am thinking that having a good time rocks the craddle.
  • I can't picture it to spin left. Any help?

    Vincent
    Personal Development Blogger
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      You have to concentrate on which direction you want it to go when the image has it's side to you and focus on the outstretched leg rotating in the opposite direction.


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  • Right side...no wait left side...no wait right side....aww crap.

    What do you do when the girl is not spinning at all?

    Seriously though - great post TomW. Challenging to try to work out which part our head we might be using at any one time and that in fact one could dominate and drive us one way or how much potential we could unlock by using both.

    I thought being left handed my right side would dominate but actually it flips round quite quickly. (Which probably means I can't make up my mind at all).
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    What are YOU thinking?

    The decisions we make are often informed by our state of mind. How we're feeling at the time of making them. Depending on what we have on our minds at any one particular time we are using either the right or left side of our brains. Often when we have a major decision to make, it can be useful to be informed by both sides.