A favourite trick of proof readers is to read text from the bottom up to the top.  You are more likely to catch an error or a typo reading in this way.  The reason is, if your are reading in the normal fashion, left to right, top to bottom, your brain will anticipate words and actually not even ‘see’ the typo.  Reading backwards, moving your eyes from bottom to top and right to left, your brain cannot be engaged in the same way.  It won’t anticipate words and skip over them, therefore you catch your typos.

The book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, recommends that artists hang the image they want to draw upside down and then commence to draw it.  The same phenomenon occurs — it is possible to essentially suspend the brain’s thinking about the drawing — so it won’t interfere. 

By interference, I mean the brain won’t start telling the artist ‘how’ to draw that arm.  The artist is then free to draw what they ‘see’ and not what they ‘think’. 

The next time you are overthinking a situation– try looking at it upside down.  Or backwards… take your brain out of the equation and just maybe a new paradigm may appear.

Scene Three of Chapter Six, “A Brief History of Harold” has been posted at Contentment is for Cows.

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