Scientists have bad news for those who believe they are only using 10 per cent of their brain.
This belief has been widespread for many years and is used to suggest that we are not quite fulfilling our full potential.
However, according to neurologist Barry Gordon at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, the “10 percent myth is so wrong it is almost laughable”, reports the magazine Scientific American.
Although it’s true that at any given moment all of the brain’s regions are not concurrently firing, brain researchers using imaging technology have shown that, like the body’s muscles, most are continually active over a 24-hour period.
“Evidence would show over a day you use 100 percent of the brain,” says John Henley, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
While the brain is only 3 per cent of the body’s weight, it uses 20 percent of the energy. For example, the simple act of pouring coffee in the morning creates a lightning storm of neuronal activity across the entire brain in a few seconds.
Despite the scientific evidence, I’m not convinced that most of us are using the power of out brains to their full potential.
It may be working at 100% capacity but it needs to be doing the right things!
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I just read a post by some dude who explained it quite well. He said think of your brain like a sports car. You use 1oo percent of your brain, just like a car uses 100 percent of its motor, but your brain is only going 20 mph, but is capable of going much faster.
This is very very very dumb, people use big words, and back it up with the scientist from da da da, said so and so. all that is pointless, which most people seem to fall for, they think “oh a scientist said that so it must be true”, yes we may use 100 percent of our brain over a span of 24 hours, that does not mean we are using 100 percent of our brains at all times, if we were to use 100 percent of our brains at all times we would be pure energy.