Ted, I absolutely agree with you! This is what I tried to teach to my students and clients for decades - it's all about balance. However, I think it is not necessary that each diary has this balance. The way I see it, ET has more left-side, analytical topics, which are needed for the purpose of the site and thus some colorful right-brain topics and diaries are a good balance.

Genius to me is being able to use both sides in a balanced way, being able to access the side that is more helpful to do the job at hand. For me one of the best examples for this is DaVinci. And I am also aware that this is over-simplification, but words are often a limitation to explain ideas - they are to two-dimensional, whereas ideas are multidimensional.

And thanks for the interesting links.