Awareness versus detail
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist describes the real differences between the left and right halves of the human brain. It's not simply "emotion on the right, reason on the left," but something far more complex and interesting.

A Best of the Web talk from RSA Animate.

the intuitive mind is a sacred gift; the rational mind is a faithful servant - Einstein

we have created a society that honours the servant, but has forgotten the gift - Iain McGilchrist

http://www.ted.com/talks/iain_mcgilchrist_the_divided_brain.html