We all use 100% of our Brainpower
The myth that we all use only 10% of our brain is a widely known myth thanks to various movies, celebrities, and books. But because of various factors such as evolution, we all use 100% percent of our brainpower.
We really don’t know where this myth has stemmed from. Some say it's from research conducted in the 1930s by a researcher named Karl Lashley, who tests the function of certain areas of the brain with electric shocks. The results showed that there were no responses in many of the regions within the brain. Concluding that these regions of the brain didn’t have any function. He later called these regions the “silent cortex.”Others say it’s because celebrities such as Albert Einstein and Dale Carnegie endorsed this notation. Albert Einstein was talking to an interviewer once about his intelligence responding to one of the interviewer's questioning stating that he only uses 10% of his brain. Dale Carnegie wrote a book called “ How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” where he explains his ability to perform the magic spoon trick through the better use of his brain.
Other reason this myth is so widely know is because of its appeal. Who wouldn’t want to have hope that they have the ability to unlock 100% of their brainpower and perform superhuman feats? Telekinesis would really come in handy when you feel to lazy to walk over and pick up the tv remote.
Arguments over the Usage of 100% Brainpower
The amount of energy that is needed for the brain to function is metabolically expensive, therefore, evolution doesn’t allow for the 10% myth to apply because it would be wasteful if it did. If only 10% of our brain function then there wouldn’t be any point to the other 90%, resulting in those areas of the brain not being there in the first place.
When people go through devasting injuries such as gunshot to the head it can cause major problems to the brain. For the people that do survive they tend to be severly limited and what they can and cannot do. If we truly only used 10% of our brain injuries like this wouldn’t be common because the rest of the brain would be useless. There is also a lot of involuntary functions that happen without you having to think about them; heartbeat, digestive system, etc… Which require multiple areas of the brain to function.
Conclusion
I hope I haven’t crushed anybody's dreams of one day being able to use telepathy or telekinesis, but the research states that we all use all of our brain capacity. I hope you guys enjoyed the article and learned something from it.
