Whole Brain Post

Josh Tandy

I took an Interpersonal-Communications class this semester to finish up one of my gen ed credits. Right before Thanksgiving, my professor gave us a paper on analyzing a movie with one of the theories we discussed in class. He had multiple suggestions on the syllabus and the movie I chose to examine was Crazy, Stupid, Love with Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling. I had never seen the film before, but I heard good things about. I was jotting notes down while I was watching it and it was a pretty good romantic comedy. After that, I almost immediately hopped on my computer and started typing the paper. I was mostly talking about how the film related to the theory I was talking about and not the other merits of the film. I just kept typing and typing and then I hit a wall on about halfway through the third page. I couldn’t figure out what more to write. I took a deep breath and took a little walk around Duvall to try and clear my head. I eventually got back to my room and reread what I wrote, and I had a realization. I somehow took a relatively right-brain movie and made it almost entirely left-brain paper. I thought back to Pink’s book and this assignment and realized I needed to take another crack at this. So, I started to incorporate more right brain ideas and I eventually got the paper to be about 4 and a half pages long. This isn’t technically what you were looking for but this was about the only project that was close to the prompt and I think it made for a good story.