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Tales of a Left-Brain/Right-Brain Thinker

“Ideas are only the beginning,” adults like to tell precocious youngsters. “Ideas are a dime a dozen.”
Easy enough for successful adults to say—they’ve already climbed a mountain or two. But when you’re a 19-year-old kid, born in the Bronx and raised in a small New Jersey town, and you’re not rich and you’re about to be married, good ideas that you can put to practical use are hard to come by.
It wasn’t that I lacked imagination. Like many who grew up in the 1960s, I spent a lot of time inside my own head, trying to figure out what was good and true and worthy. In my case, that project was perhaps made more difficult by my awareness, from a very early age, that I had both left-brain and right-brain interests. Part of me was attracted to a creative, aesthetic way of life—to music and art and fashion and design and writing. And another, seemingly equal part craved logic and order and ideas based in reason.
After a very early first marriage, I had less time to ponder anything. And when I became a father, at age 20, I really had to scramble. I worked all day and went to college at night, studying liberal arts and sociology. It was a tough slog; at the rate I was going, I calculated it would take me nine years to get the right degrees.

Taken from : “Leap” A Revolution in Creative Business Strategy

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