Every person has their own natural way of thinking and doing. It largely determines whether you suit your partner or not. The Brain Dominance System of psychobiology gives you an answer to this.
Nobel Prize in Neurobiology
In the Netherlands and Flanders, there are not yet enough people who want to have a complete psychological insight into their own personality. The result is not tangible or concrete enough for our thoroughbred material society. Besides, most people one encounters think they have almost perfect self-knowledge. Yet a lack of self-consciousness is responsible for more than eighty percent of all divorces. Insufficient insight into yourself also causes two-thirds of all professional failures.
The Brain Dominance Concept, developed by the American neurobiologist and Nobel Prize winner Roger Sperry, has been used in the United States for about twenty years to determine whether men and women can live or work together in a good way.
It is an open secret that people always show their best side at the beginning of a relationship. The saying ‘to seduce’ is to deceive always applies to both parties. It is only later, when both partners show their real faces, that problems arise. That is why it is useful to know in advance the real character, his or her natural way of reasoning and acting. And this is possible through the Brain Dominance Concept.
The principle of the concept is as logical as it is simple. We have known for years that our brain consists of two exactly alike parts. Yet the left half is diametrically opposed to the right half in terms of thinking and acting. It has been scientifically proven that the left hemisphere is the seat of logic, analytical skills, organizational skills and the ability to solve difficult material problems. The right hemisphere is then home to the creative, the intuitive and the interpersonal.
The ideal person exists!
It would be ideal if all people were whole-brained, if their left and right brain hemispheres were equally well and very strongly developed. In that case you get a kind of ideal person: someone who combines the thinking and acting pattern of a creative artist or entrepreneur with that of a well-organized logical problem solver and who also has more than sufficient human qualities. Such rare people are admired by everyone. They form an absolute top class in their private relationships and in their profession.
Thousands of individual reports now show that at most two percent of men and women have this thinking profile. These are the people who score between eighty and one hundred percent in all four quadrants of the Brain Dominance Concept. For the vast majority (98 percent) it is very interesting to know to what extent they can live or work together in harmony.
The principle
As a neurobiologist and psychiatrist, Nobel Prize winner Roger Sperry has depicted the individual’s preferred personality in a circle that is subdivided into four quadrants (see figure).
The quadrant of the Brain Dominance System
The 90 degrees above left (1) represent one’s own natural capacity to think logically, work analytically and solve mathematical and technical problems, logical thinking.
Top right (2) visualizes the individual possibilities to act enterprisingly and creatively. It also gives a good idea of a person’s artistic attitude, entrepreneurship.
The bottom left quadrant (3) represents organizational and planning talent, for neatly keeping all types of administration and the aptitude for adhering to existing society or business rules, organization and planning.
Finally, the bottom right quadrant (4) is a reflection of your interpersonal and emotional qualities, feelings and relationships.
Do the test
Brain Dominance System Questionnaire
For the next twenty questions, write down a value on a scale of twenty (see figure). Write the numbers after each question. Giving an honest answer to these questions takes a maximum of two minutes.
Now add up your points using the following schedule.
1+5+10+14+17 gives your own score in the upper left quadrant. (1)4+6+9+16+18 gives your percentage in the lower left quadrant. (3)3+8+11+13+19 shows your points in the lower right quadrant. (4)2+7+12+15+20 illustrates your total in the upper right quadrant. (2)
Some explanation
A person’s psychobiology becomes clear through a simple conversation, or by having him spontaneously give thought and feeling value to a number of concepts. The psychobiologist then transfers the data into the so-called percentage circle.
For example, people who score less than 34 percent in the interpersonal quadrant will have great difficulty building truly loving relationships or engaging in healthy social behavior at work. They are not bad individuals, but people who live and perform best alone. Contact with others only causes stress.
People who score more than 100 percent in this quadrant – because that is possible in psychobiology – are oversensitive characters who are so busy with other people that they completely forget about themselves. These people will also face difficulties in their love life. Due to the fact that they pay more attention to their partner than to themselves, they lose all respect in a relatively short time. The other person’s opinion is always more important than their own. They also usually encounter problems in their work. After all, they are people who start everything to please others, but finish very little efficiently. Usually due to lack of time. They no longer see reality because of their bunch of well-intentioned promises and often become psychosomatically ill or depressed.
Every quadrant where you score less than 34 percent is a problem area for you. People who score between 35 and 66 percent in parts of the circle will be able to use those qualities when necessary. Any score above 67 percent indicates the individual’s true character traits.
Relationships in practice
But what can we do now with this knowledge? For example, a relationship between a woman who is creative and human and a man who stands on fixed values and has a high degree of logic is doomed to failure. It goes without saying that two people who score more than 67 percent in the four quadrants will get along very well. But the chance that this is possible is at most two percent.
Any relationship where one of the partners scores less than 67 percent in the interpersonal sphere indicates a crisis point. In a human life there are so many events that require a strongly humane approach that both people must score high in this area.
Yet not all hope is lost. However, a marriage of convenience is also possible for people who get less than 67 percent, but who give more or less even answers in this quadrant.