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IIr this be the way that God, or our

It requires both sides maker, delivers new information to us
as a species? Could this be the theory
of your brain to be
behind the term "brainstorm"?
successful. As a society, we tend to think of
left-brained people as smart and right-
Taking control and brained people as Rakey. We tend to
being creative requires value people who are left-brained
more than right-brained, typically by
both financial
paying them more. That is why
education ancf' accountants, attorneys, doctors,

experrence dentists and MBAs are generally paid
more in corporate America.
Kiyosaki 1£ as a society, we have tended to
assign more financial value to people
who are left-brain dominant than
those who are right-brain dominant, that trend may be changing. In his
book, A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink writes about the shift in value today
away from left-brain people to right-brain people. He states:

"The future belongs to a very different kind ofperson with a very
different kind of mind - creators and ernpathizers, pattern
recognizers and meaning makers. These people ... will now reap
society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys."

Creativity Makes You Rich

Understanding the functions of the left-brain and the right-brain is
important because creativity has the power to make us very rich.
I find it interesting that the investments most people invest in -
investments such as savings, stocks, bonds and mutual funds - do not
require creativity. In fact, as an ordinary investor, ifyou try to get creative
with these investments, you might wind up in jail. The federal government,
through agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),

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