I, too, am a very right-brained thinker, despite the fact that I work primarily with words... even to the point of understanding and remembering information if I am looking toward the left while I am taking it in (I always preferred to sit to the right of the blackboard in high school and college, and I prefer to look to the left while watching tv, or listening to music. Now that I'm thinking about it, I realize I'm looking slightly to the left as I type this!).

The thing that annoyed me about Shlain's book is that for all his praise of balance between the left and right hemispherical thinking, I found far too many small font, densely worded pages, and far too few pictures.

David Abram's book made the argument far more strongly, imnsho, because he wrote first from his own subjective experience, rather than from theories which may or may not hold all the water poured into them ;-). This also made for a more entertaining read.