I've been teaching myself to be ambidextrous. It started a few years ago after injuring my right elbow with lots of wood working, drilling and screwing and sawi

I've been teaching myself to be ambidextrous. It started a few years ago after injuring my right elbow with lots of wood working, drilling and screwing and sawing. I started trying to drill and drive screws with my left hand. It felt very awkward at first, but after a few tries I started getting the hang of it. I would put the drill back in my right hand and pay attention to the angles and positions and then try to do that with my left hand. It takes a while to build up that coordination, but it does happen. After a while I was using my left hand so frequently that I actually started getting the same injury in my left elbow and started going back to my right hand again. For a while I could not squeeze hand clamps with my left hand. I since have trained myself to notice when one or the other arm is getting sore and switch, and haven't had these problems in a couple years. I also had to switch to using mice with my left hand when my right wrist started getting sensitive. I put two mice on my home and work computers and would just use the left one when my right side was getting sore. Last year I consciously started doing everything with my left side as often as I do with my right: using forks and chop sticks, sawing, splitting wood with a hatchet (using an axe is a both-sided thing and there is very little difference which hand is on top). I haven't put the practice into writing with my left hand yet, it's harder to get past the awkwardness of something I expect to do so automatically. But I will keep working on it. And some things I just can't do with the left hand like bass playing or gear shifting, unless I want to move to England and get a custom guitar built!