Left Brain/Right Brain: Creativity Psychologists agree that most of us have creative ability that is greater than what we use in daily life. In other words, we can be more creative than we realize! The problem is that we use mainly one hemisphere of our brain- the left. From childhood, in school, we're taught reading, writing, and mathematics, we are exposed to very little music or art. Therefore, many of a us might not "exercise" our right hemisphere much, except through dreams, symbols, and those wonderful insights in which we suddenly find the answer to a problem that has been bothering us and do so without the need for logic. Can we be taught to use our right hemisphere Man experts more? believe so. Classes at some schools and books (such as The Inner Tennis and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain) claim to help people to silence" the left hemisphere and give the right a chance to work.