No ADD in an Eastern Mindset?

Not long ago I was teaching a class at church.  We were listening to a series from a guy named Ray Vander Laan.  He is an American Christian who was educated in Israel under Jewish rabbis.  The clash and resulting revelations he received about an "eastern" world view vs. a "western" world view were amazing.  In the west we are very scientific, rational, linear, organized and outlined in our thinking and reasoning.  In the east, they are visual, experiential, metaphorical, and storied.  It was very interesting to me in studying the Bible which was written by people with an eastern world view.  But another amazing revelation for me came when Vander Laan stated that when he takes people with ADD to Israel with him to study, they basically don't have ADD anymore.  He said that the eastern mindset was how their brains functioned and they actually fit much more easily than other people without ADD.  For me, I can see how this would be true.  I think in pictures, I reason in metaphors, I sense changes, I feel directions, I understand poetry, and I am moved by experiences.  My wife, on the other hand, is about as western in her thinking as a person can be.  No wonder we have a hard time communicating.  This information was not a scientific study by Vander Laan, but it sure made sense to me.  His website is followtherabbi.com.

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[cowboy]

Are your pictures, metaphors, senses, feelings, understandings, and experiences accurate to what others are showing, telling, giving, thinking, being, and living? I am afraid that I might missrepresent what others are internalizing. Can I trust my feelings to not be wrong? I don't want to get off on the wrong trail and not understand. I guess my goal is to first understand and then be understood and be like Steven Covey.