Do You Really Use Only 10 Percent Of Your Brain? The Answer Is Quite Surprising!

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There is a widespread belief that humans don’t use their full intellectual potential. Many famous self-improvement celebrities claim that we use only 10 percent of our brain, so we need to do everything possible to improve our cognitive skills and activate the whole brain.

This extraordinary fact is well-known thanks to Hollywood’s films too. And the most unexpected thing is that almost 65 percent of people agreed with this statement according to the recent survey.

But is this true? Do we really use only a little piece of our brain? Let’s find out! Actually, we use all of our brains, and it works all of the time.

How can we confirm this? First of all, if we needed only 10 percent of our brain to have a completely normal life, most of the brain injuries wouldn’t have severe consequences. If 90 percent of our brain doesn’t work, nothing will happen in this case, but it doesn’t correspond to reality.

Now researchers also have hard evidence. Thanks to imaging techniques, they can map brain human brain activity in real time. The experiments clearly demonstrate that people use large areas of their brain all the time. It doesn’t matter whether you are resting or doing math, your brain is very active and uses its full force.

As it turned out, the myth that a large part of our brain is useless came from self-help industry in the United States. We can find one of the first mentions in the preface to Dale Carnegie’s book, published in 1936.

Well, it is sad news for anyone who hoped to become a true genius overnight, just activating the brain, but we have good news too. We can improve our brain power by mental tasks!