Last night I was taken aback by a comment made by my Guitar 1 professor (yes, I am taking guitar lessons).
Here's how the story went:
Professor: "I'd like to make a commentary really quick about my view of left handed guitar players"
Class: (looks at me...the ONLY left-handed guitar player in the class)
Me: "Is it really a commentary if you're only talking to me. You should just start the sentence with "Ashley, this is for you"".
Professor: " I think that left handed people should really try to play the way right-handed people play. They would be more naturally good at fretting whereas right-handed players have to learn to manipulate their fingers harder, it would be easier for left handed people".
Me: ""If that was sound logic, then you should be able to play my LEFT-HANDED guitar with great ease since you would be "manipulating" you right hand and that should be more "natural" for you.
Professor: Well, I just think it's easier for left-handed people to learn things right-handed. I have a daughter that was born left-handed and we really tried to force her to do things "normal".
Yes, normal. As in right-handed.
Me: (shocked at this point): Well, I was raised by Hippies who apparently were just crazy enough to. let me be. left. handed.
By the way, oh-so-brilliant-professor:
A study for the National Institute of Sports and Physical Education in Paris found that left-handers have faster eye-hand coordination with their right hand than even right-handers do.
A driving-school-commissioned study suggests that "left-handers have a natural advantage" when they get behind the wheel. The findings show that 57 percent of left-handers pass their driving tests on their first attempts, 10 percent more than right-handers.
Recent research has also found that left-handed people often perform better than right-handers at fast or difficult tasks involving lots of information or stimuli. According to these studies, port-siders show superiority in playing fast computer games, talking while driving in heavy traffic and flying jet fighters, activities that require both hemispheres of the brain to speedily process information.
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2 comments:
You go girl! I'm left-handed also! Show him how it's done!
lol woot!
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