100 Ways To Motivate Yourself, Third Edition

41. Get up on the right side

Since I was a child, I’ve always been intrigued with the idea that you could have a great day just by getting up on the right side of the bed. Later in life, during my years as a largely unsuccessful songwriter, one of the few successes I had was with a country rock song that I co-wrote with Fred Knipe and Duncan Stitt. It was called “The Right Side of the Wrong Bed.” Today my fascination is not so much with the right side of the bed as it is with the right side of the head—or to be more precise, the right side of the brain.

The best explanation of how “whole-brain” thinking surpasses left-brain thinking or right-brain thinking is in a book written by British philosopher Colin Wilson called Frankenstein’s Castle