The Balanced Brain Test is not exactly new, these kinds of tests have been around in one form or another for years. We all like the idea that we can spend forty-five seconds and discover if our brain is balanced by the choices that we make.
The Balanced Brain Test on Friday’s Law has a list of words and phrases-critical, nurturing, concise and the like. You pick fifteen of these words and hit the submit button to see how balanced your brain is at the moment you took the test.
My brain is balanced, thank you very much-though it might be argued that this proves the balanced brain test is imperfect. The score for the balanced brain test falls into three broad areas-Frontal Lobe, Upper Cerebral Cortex, and Temporal Lobe. I scored two 5s and a 7, though this appears to be a bit on the low side, it falls withing the normal range.
The point of this balanced brain silliness is to become normal, or to stay normal if your there already. Well, who wants to be normal? We all want to be above average like the kids in Lake Wobegon-though I’m sure they all have perfectly balanced brains.
Also on the website are Friday’s Laws, which might also be called The Bleeding Obvious:
1.Life is difficult.
2.Perception is reality.
3.Change is the toughest thing a human being can do.
4.You can never change another human being; you can only change yourself. Once you change, they change, but you cannot change them.
5.I am responsible for everything I do and say. I am not responsible for your response.
6.The future and the past are seldom as good or as bad as we anticipate or remember.
7.Nobody has a squeaky-clean psyche.
8.The only thing that lasts forever is…Now.
I was a huge fan of Pinky and The Brain-though it is clear that these two lab mice did not have very balanced brains at all.
