Thursday, October 17, 2013

Day Twenty

(or really 21)

Today I found this article, which is more of an experiment. Each participant in the experiment is asked to use their non-dominant hand when writing in a journal given to them. They were told to write the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" twice in the journal for 28 days. Sounds a bit familiar ;).

They compared the results from day 1, 13, and 28 in the end, and the change in the handwriting was spectacular. I honestly was surprised--it looked like they had been writing with this hand for years.

It really interests me that we can all train ourselves to be ambidextrous if we just tried. It's an interesting idea. I'm actually thinking about keeping it up after my project for the simple every day tasks... like brushing my teeth.

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