Today, I want to share with you, surprising things about left-handed people.
Left-handed people make up about 10 to 15 percent of the world's population.
And guess what! I'm part of it ✌!
Until a relatively close time, the particularity of left-handers was considered a defect, even a handicap!
They were forced to learn to write with the right hand!
Twenty-five years ago, when I started writing, it was complicated. Already because I wrote and read from right to left. Yes Yes! Strange FlaminGirl you will think, you right-hander ^^. But not at all!
Do you know that the hand with which one writes is related to certain physiological and neurological specificities?
The search is incomplete, but here's what I found about the cognitive and psychological peculiarities of left-handed people:
They may think faster
Left-handed people could access the hemispheres of their brains faster and more efficiently.
According to an Australian study published in 2006 in the journal Neuropsychology, connections between the hemispheres of the brain are faster in left-handed users, resulting in faster processing of information.
The authors of the study gave the participants a task that allowed them to measure the transfer time between the hemispheres, and another that required using both hemispheres at the same time.
This work showed that left-handers processed information faster from one hemisphere to another, a cognitive asset that could benefit them in activities such as video games and sports.
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Provided that the controller is adapted ... Yes because when one is left-handed, this type of controller makes completely crazy !!!!
That's why I hate video games now! I was traumatized all my childhood by a joystick of video games upside down !!!!!!
They have an advantage in sport
Many athletes are left-handed. They are one step ahead of the right-handers! And they have an advantage especially in dueling sport (boxing, fencing, tennis, tennis table ...) because their difference tends to destabilize their opponent who is troubled by a "mirror game".
Some famous left-handed athletes:
Rafael Nadal
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Cécile Argiloas
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Oscar De La Hoya
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Lionel Messi
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They have an advantage in art
Thanks to their cognitive specificities, left-handers would be more creative. They have a better sense of space and a divergent thought (finding several solutions has the same problem).
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were both left-handed.
Left-handed drawbacks
The world is designed for right-handed people and the daily life of a left-handed person is sometimes complicated. Here are some examples...
But fortunately, all these people have succeeded in life despite everything!
Five of the last seven US Presidents were left-handed!
Some famous left-handers:
Barack Obama
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Albert Einstein
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Sarah Jessica Parker
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Bill Gates
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FlaminGirl! XD