Are left handers really more successful in business?

13 August is global Left-handers Day. But it was only in the last few decades that being left-handed ceased to be a real problem for many people, and instead became something that could be celebrated. The news comes ahead of the UK’s “National Left-Handers Day”, which takes place today and aims to raise awareness of the everyday issues “lefties” face in a world that is designed for right-handers.

The chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media also ran for the Republican nomination for presidency in 1996 and 2000. Lefties of all ages, physical attributes, and nationalities must live in a right handed world.

Renowned left handers in Irish existence contain previous Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, artist Bob Geldof, actor Pierce Brosnan and also the late author Samuel Beckett.

TRIVIA – Studies suggest that left-handed people use the right side of their brain more.

The Polish-born physicist and chemist earns her place for discovering the principles of radioactivity and winning two Nobel prizes.

Renowned American company magnate Bill Gates can also be considered to be a left hander. Oh yes, I was going to make that “Have I left anything out?” An APA report says that less-lateralized brains may be linked to lower IQ scores, schizophrenia and “magic ideation”, the belief that events that do not have a causal relation with each other still may be related. Many famous left-handed people are successfully ruling many hearts, with their skills in their respective fields. (Maybe that’s why you don’t get an irritating right-handed ergonomic mouse when you buy an iMac?).

Whereas only 187 are typed with the right.

It’s believed that around 10 percent of the united kingdom populace is left handed, but Mr Milsom thinks that quantity might now not be secondary. Their opponent, faced with an unusual left-handed opponent, has a disadvantage. The Apple Watch can be set up for use on the right wrist with an internal left-hand mode.

A warehouse near Oxford now allows customers from around the globe to pick up products specially designed for left-handers.

We love you, though, lefties. No wonder the lefties have such a hard time of it. They’re forced to write, counter-intuitively, from left to right (and in the days of pen and ink, this was a messy business, it being nearly impossible not to smudge every word).