The need for balance.

There seems always to have been a trend to separate science from creativity, logical process from intuition, IQ from EQ. A mathematician is perceived to be as far removed from a comedian as an astronaut is from a rubbish collector. Are they really that far removed from each other? The astronaut may be brilliant academically, but have no concept of humor, the mathematician is comfortable with numbers, but not people. The rubbish collector may have a mundane job, but is happy within himself and the comedian has a grasp on the ridiculous, but is not. Different areas of the brain have been tapped to cause this. The astronaut was possibly the child of strict, over-bearing parents who had no time for humor. The comedian used funny to cover something lacking. The rubbish collector may not have had the opportunity to gain an education, but had a loving family life and the mathematician was perhaps not socialised well. The concept of left-brained people and right-brained people puts everyone into boxes. I feel that all brains have the capacity to excel in all fields if stimulated correctly. Take a child from the seventies who grew up climbing trees and using imagination versus a child of this day and age who grows up using indoor technology. The seventies child is likely to be a practical person with a good immune system, strong body and a creative mind, the modern child, although superior perhaps intellect-wise, relies on Google for answers and is lacking in physical ability and often ill. This of course is a very broad generalisation. The secret, I feel, to a well rounded person is balance. Significant elders are often to blame for not realising how important this is. It is easier to sit a child in front of the screen of some gadget than to read them a story, draw with them, play with them. If the brain is stimulated in many areas, curiosity is encouraged, reasonable boundaries set and negative reinforcement steered away from, there is no reason why the brain will not develop the capacity to use all it's faculties. What I observe in children who are growing up in a well-balanced environment is a wonderful mix of intellect and creativity, good social skills and a natural understanding of moral codes. Children stimulated by technology alone, and there are many out there, are not interested in being creative, can be socially inept and seem to have very little concept of how to deal with reality. Balance, sorely lacking in our time and something we all need to think about.