As a cognitive thinker I have had to use my cognitive skill set to hone my mind and brain. I was born left handed. That allowed me to begin my life as a RIGHT brain thinker. For some time I was happy with that state of mind. I later became somewhat restless and wanted to challenge other parts of my brain. I first had to overcome some psychological baggage (the influence of my fathers negative thinking). I learned, by teaching myself, that I could turn my negative thinking mode into a positive one by the following strategy. Each time I started to think a negative thought I would, in my mind, REPLACE that thought with a equal but opposite positive thought. After some time spent practicing this method of thinking I became a positive thinker. In this state of mind I began to study, on my own, a diverse number of subjects. I read extensively and gained insight on a myriad of topics. I discovered that I was very weak in my Mathematical skills. I felt the subject of mathematics held no relevance for me. I did not appreciate the underlying logic involved which would prove to be of such importance. Seeing my weakness as a challenge of sorts, I visited numerous used bookstores and purchased hundreds of books on Mathematics. The opportunity to attend and audit selected math courses at the university level proved to open up a goldmine of information for me. I attended classes with the same subject matter taught by different professors that enabled me to internalize math at a very deep level. It was becoming apparent to me that math would be a huge key in my future intellectual development. I started this mathematical endeavor at the age of 28 and spent the next five years totally immersed in the subject. I discovered that while doing this I was actually able to train my LEFT brain. I found myself a much more powerful thinking person because I had developed the ability to utilize the appropriate segment of my brain necessary for understanding the concept at hand. It became apparent to me that I was proficient at detailed thinking as well as global thinking. Thus, I could process the world either in my right or left hemisphere or up to down. It was a thrilling discovery to find that I was actually able to train my own brain. Finally information flowed freely through my corpus collisum. This type of skill set, developed by using my own cognitive reasoning proved to be non-trivial in the amount of mental work required. The process involved separating myself from the social world for long periods of time in an effort to achieve my goal. My unique way of thinking has allowed me the ability to take multiple disciplines and find similarities within seemingly disparate aspects, sometimes piecing together hundreds of seemingly unrelated facts to discover their relevancy as related to a new concept at hand. My newly developed skills have helped me greatly in my general thought process.