Truly can't see the forest for the trees...

When I was in my corporate ladder-climbing mode, I was analyzed for traits, to see if I would fit the model they sought in their management. The resulting evaluation let me grab one more rung, and gave me an insight I'd never have gained on my own.

Among the many traits, however, was the one that has still helped and haunted me to this day. It seems that I was and remain mentally myopic. Evidently I am gifted with such an ability to focus, that it becomes a curse. The old expression "the devil is in the details" holds especially true for me. I can roam around in a hell of my own making, in search for whatever answer I happen to need at the time.

Although I long for a little right brain activity, that side of my brain must be dead--or maybe it never existed in the first place. My left brain functions to such an extent as to totally overwhelm any influence from right brain. Maybe that's the reason I always appeared as such a jerk to my wife (who happens to be mostly right-brained).

Thank goodness for our ability to put up with each other--between us, we constitute a whole. But, damnation, it certainly does make it hard to understand each other.
Funderstanding - Right Brain vs. Left Brain