surely we use 100% of are brains? other wise why would it have developed bits that dont work? that doesnt make sense to me. (this is a question not a brave statement)
@XxiiNFAMOUZ805xX Just because all of the brain is used at one point or another you can still forget and it doesn't work like a computer hard drive where it has a given amount of memory
Okay, I do believe that we use 100% of our physical brain, but do we use it all mentally? Are there ways that we don't know how to use that 100%? So really, I believe the statement should be, "We only use 10% mentally of the 100% physically that we control".
@HadoukenDave basically, were not living if you think about it. Why can't we use our brains to their full potential? Is something being hidden from us the people from a higher power?
@Turbochargedss I think so, and it is God. The reason he probably took this power away, is man was probably using it for evil. In the Bible it says that before the flood people were living for hundreds of years. That had to have been more than proper health. I do believe it is possible to access this "hidden" power still. Think about it, there's energy all around us, kinetic and potential, there has to be away we can mentally control it.
Okay, so we use 100% of our physical brain, but what about mentally? What if in that 100% of the brain we use, there are other things we are able to do that we are unaware of? I do agree that the physical portion of our brain is used 100%, but what if there are ways we do not know how to use it; which is what I believe the "myth" is actually meaning.
Just because we have neurons firing in every part of our brain doesn't conclusively mean we use 100% of the brain... How do we know those neurons couldn't fire more rapidly?... Just because we are using all parts of out brine does not equal we use 100% of the brain power.
This is one big mistake. According to my 10 years of expert research its not true we can use 100% of our brains. That's the worst thing i ever realize.In fact, If Albert Einstein is still alive from now he would scolded you as Moron. The reality is we use 17% only of our brains and Einstein has been able to access 21% of his brain, Thus it means the value of velocity according to light by Einstein that when scientifically recorded 100% means 1000 IQ or more. We are so smart so then. Think, Okay?
Some days you go down certain roads, other days you don't.
The ones you use the most become freeways, the others, dirt roads. If you want to build a freeway where no road exists, go right ahead, nobody is stopping you, but you can be guaranteed it's going to take a lot of work.
Most people would much rather take the road they have already put in place which over time has become an expressway, than hunker down and begin the painful process of building a new one
Do we perform all the tasks we are capable of in a day, in a week, in a life time? I don't think so. Sure, it looks like all parts are being used, and maybe they are, but new pathways can form, giving the person new abilities and allowing them to perform tasks they could not perform before.
Really? I understand what's being said (pretty much all areas of the brain light up on a PET scan throughout a full day for most people)... It's like if I said we only use 10% of the muscles in our body... for some people, all I have to do is look at them and I know they don't use certain muscles much... it shows. At least they have not developed them. From what I understand, new neurons and neurological pathways are formed when we use our minds in new ways... just like new muscle cells.
yeah 10%, cos the rest we don't consciously use or even need half the time, like the parts of the brain designed to push to body to its absolute limit when near death, i can say i never used that one before O_O
but research finds that people who become savants as grownups suddenly discover hidden potentials, its like we have a very powerfull brain, but most of it is uncontious naturally, and only very small amount of brain is contious, if we could actually use more of our brain contiously then we would be much smarter in surtain areas. so even though many psychologists say the myth is untrue, i disagree because research finds that every human has hidden mental potential with savant studies
I cant use my natural resources 100% efficiently. I can't handle my personal or business relationships with 100% efficiency. My diet, excercise, body health, weight health, mental health are all under 100% from birth and never come close to reaching full efficiency, I can't use the space in my cupboard efficiently -and yet some a**hole in a white jacket on youtube sais my brain works at 100% efficiency. I'm not a doctor, so if thats true we are a species not only doomed, but deservedly so.
Ok then, if what we experience in the world daily is the pick of the human brain, go back, consume, work, eat, multiply and die. That's exactly the whole idea @0.34'' .
I suspect the origin of the myth is that only about 10% of the brain's mass is gray matter, that is, tissue that does the actual processing. The rest is glial cells and similar communications and support structure.
Just imagine a person walking in the street, using all of his muscles (not sure if at the same time) at a low potential.
Then imagine that same person playing a sport, using all of his muscles at a very high potential.
Same principle for the brain: Using ALL, but at a different rate.
Honestly, for experience, I think all humans at some point in our lives make certain type of mistakes… just as if we were using 10% or LESS of our brain…
I am thinking the quote actually means than people have a lot of potential, they just don't tap into all of it. They could do more with their lives, instead, they let whatever hold them back.
the blue parts merely show that there is little activity in that part of the brain, but still some... if there was no activity there, the parts would be black just as they are outside the brain, but they aren't...
if you still go in believing this myth, perhaps you use only 10% of YOUR brain...
DAMN IT! There goes one of my explainations and mankinds excuses too. This just can't be right... can it?!
If all of us are using 100% of our brains throughout the day then.... why are the majority of Humans STILL so dumb? I guess it all really does boil down to a matter of choice then......... fuck. Changing opinions is tough work.
we use 100% of our brain? then how do we learn stuff? if we used 100% shouldn't we know how to do everything then? the brain needs to be trained to use 100%, we don't use 10% either, how would anyone know how much % we use. meditation teaches us things we didn't even know we could do. some people can use there mind to feel no pain, some people can actually use there mind to increase power. there is a video of a monk meditating while standing on one fingure. explain that? no one knows shit!
@Shift4chizzle yeah i know about Chi, without meditation you can't use chi. almost all people can't perform chi because you need NO negative energy at all for it to work. it's almost impossible that's why you only hear of shaolin monks doing these incredible thing. only pathetic people who are so called "profesionals" think that the power of Chi and Ki energy is fake. think out side the square, you'll learn alot.
I think what W.J. Sidis meant was that we only use ~10% of our mental energy, as opposed to the view this video takes of neural locales in the brian used by volume. He's saying don't be mentally lazy, in a sort. In doing so he's using his neural connections better, rather than other quantities or sections of grey matter.
Using 10% only, in what way?? The brain actually handles every single involuntary process in our body including voluntary movements, regulatory functions and the thinking process. What is basis for this 10% shit? Who is the dumbass that said this shit?!
Don't we actually use the different portions to do different things? It's not that we use 10 percent, it's that parts of the brain have their own specialties. We use different parts at different times to do different things, or many parts at once when trying to accomplish something that requires multiple skills.
B.S Brother..... We do use 10 percent of our brain. The other 90 percent we haven't learned how to use like Meditating....having the force ( like in starwars) and other things the 10 percent of the brain we use is what we do in our daily life like walk and talk. But after we learn how to control the other 90 percent we can learn to do extraordinary things and change human life forever.
this guy is lieing the goverment wants us to use 10 % so we dont get to smart so they invent things to make us lazy and dumb then they send us school to lern stuff they have made up instead of things we need to no
We're talkin about at the same time to be able to use 100 precent of our brain at one time not from time to time.
BurnedOutZombie 1 month ago
i could remeber stuff since i was 2 years old
Michellecardona1 1 month ago
surely we use 100% of are brains? other wise why would it have developed bits that dont work? that doesnt make sense to me. (this is a question not a brave statement)
TheSulphuric 3 months ago
We don't use 100% if we did we would process everything much better and remember every single thing of our lives even from when we were little
XxiiNFAMOUZ805xX 3 months ago
@XxiiNFAMOUZ805xX Just because all of the brain is used at one point or another you can still forget and it doesn't work like a computer hard drive where it has a given amount of memory
wertyuioman 1 month ago
or reading naughty novels? um okay then
ej15dude 4 months ago
Why does this have 38 thumbs up? Is it me or does that whole ''William James'' Thing seem like an Assumption rather than Fact?
StackyTacky 4 months ago
@StackyTacky It was never stated as fact he said it is believed by some
wertyuioman 1 month ago
What an idiot.
Slacky4O8 5 months ago
Okay, I do believe that we use 100% of our physical brain, but do we use it all mentally? Are there ways that we don't know how to use that 100%? So really, I believe the statement should be, "We only use 10% mentally of the 100% physically that we control".
HadoukenDave 6 months ago
@HadoukenDave basically, were not living if you think about it. Why can't we use our brains to their full potential? Is something being hidden from us the people from a higher power?
Turbochargedss 6 months ago
@Turbochargedss I think so, and it is God. The reason he probably took this power away, is man was probably using it for evil. In the Bible it says that before the flood people were living for hundreds of years. That had to have been more than proper health. I do believe it is possible to access this "hidden" power still. Think about it, there's energy all around us, kinetic and potential, there has to be away we can mentally control it.
HadoukenDave 6 months ago
@HadoukenDave ya, i think something will happen 2012 dec 21 hopefully...
Turbochargedss 5 months ago
@Turbochargedss Lol, good one.
HadoukenDave 5 months ago
Okay, so we use 100% of our physical brain, but what about mentally? What if in that 100% of the brain we use, there are other things we are able to do that we are unaware of? I do agree that the physical portion of our brain is used 100%, but what if there are ways we do not know how to use it; which is what I believe the "myth" is actually meaning.
HadoukenDave 6 months ago
i think we only use 10% if we used 100% we would be so smart ...
MrBobthecorncob 6 months ago
Just because we have neurons firing in every part of our brain doesn't conclusively mean we use 100% of the brain... How do we know those neurons couldn't fire more rapidly?... Just because we are using all parts of out brine does not equal we use 100% of the brain power.
TearsOfWar1 7 months ago
This is one big mistake. According to my 10 years of expert research its not true we can use 100% of our brains. That's the worst thing i ever realize.In fact, If Albert Einstein is still alive from now he would scolded you as Moron. The reality is we use 17% only of our brains and Einstein has been able to access 21% of his brain, Thus it means the value of velocity according to light by Einstein that when scientifically recorded 100% means 1000 IQ or more. We are so smart so then. Think, Okay?
facebookgamecheater 8 months ago
Think of the pathways as roads.
Some days you go down certain roads, other days you don't.
The ones you use the most become freeways, the others, dirt roads. If you want to build a freeway where no road exists, go right ahead, nobody is stopping you, but you can be guaranteed it's going to take a lot of work.
Most people would much rather take the road they have already put in place which over time has become an expressway, than hunker down and begin the painful process of building a new one
TxFw 8 months ago
Do we perform all the tasks we are capable of in a day, in a week, in a life time? I don't think so. Sure, it looks like all parts are being used, and maybe they are, but new pathways can form, giving the person new abilities and allowing them to perform tasks they could not perform before.
TxFw 8 months ago
Really? I understand what's being said (pretty much all areas of the brain light up on a PET scan throughout a full day for most people)... It's like if I said we only use 10% of the muscles in our body... for some people, all I have to do is look at them and I know they don't use certain muscles much... it shows. At least they have not developed them. From what I understand, new neurons and neurological pathways are formed when we use our minds in new ways... just like new muscle cells.
TxFw 8 months ago
Does anyone else think that the brain is a receptor for ideas & dreams.
The brain may be involved in the physical regulation of the body,
the temperature, chemistry, hormones, breathing, etc etc.
But as far as thought, it recieves it, it doesn't create it.
Most thought is phenominal, you don't control them, they come &
go without your control.
Why do we dream? I've heard the explainations, but I don't
find them to be rational or true.
100% use of brain = physical manifesting = creation!
fntime 9 months ago
yeah 10%, cos the rest we don't consciously use or even need half the time, like the parts of the brain designed to push to body to its absolute limit when near death, i can say i never used that one before O_O
masterofdoom5000 9 months ago
In my opinion he's right, there are stupid people out there and there are super smart people too. It's a fact of life.
NotBadYeah 9 months ago
but research finds that people who become savants as grownups suddenly discover hidden potentials, its like we have a very powerfull brain, but most of it is uncontious naturally, and only very small amount of brain is contious, if we could actually use more of our brain contiously then we would be much smarter in surtain areas. so even though many psychologists say the myth is untrue, i disagree because research finds that every human has hidden mental potential with savant studies
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dntchatshit1 1 year ago
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dntchatshit1 1 year ago
I cant use my natural resources 100% efficiently. I can't handle my personal or business relationships with 100% efficiency. My diet, excercise, body health, weight health, mental health are all under 100% from birth and never come close to reaching full efficiency, I can't use the space in my cupboard efficiently -and yet some a**hole in a white jacket on youtube sais my brain works at 100% efficiency. I'm not a doctor, so if thats true we are a species not only doomed, but deservedly so.
onenatl 1 year ago 2
we are using 100% of our brain bot not using its potential
carbon5146 1 year ago
what happens if i don't read naughty books??
felipehz 1 year ago
the myth is said wrong its not that we us 10%of ur brain but only 10% of our subconscious thinking.that is what the myth is implying.
darkfireroughton2 1 year ago
Ok then, if what we experience in the world daily is the pick of the human brain, go back, consume, work, eat, multiply and die. That's exactly the whole idea @0.34'' .
PROMITHEASMUSIC 1 year ago 3
that made me sad
wwiliuks 1 year ago
I suspect the origin of the myth is that only about 10% of the brain's mass is gray matter, that is, tissue that does the actual processing. The rest is glial cells and similar communications and support structure.
1RadicalOne 1 year ago
then y am i failing school
skillcape14 1 year ago
@skillcape14 because you haven,t used your brain
Tethloach1 1 year ago
Maybe…
Just imagine a person walking in the street, using all of his muscles (not sure if at the same time) at a low potential.
Then imagine that same person playing a sport, using all of his muscles at a very high potential.
Same principle for the brain: Using ALL, but at a different rate.
Honestly, for experience, I think all humans at some point in our lives make certain type of mistakes… just as if we were using 10% or LESS of our brain…
CarlosSpartaSilveti 1 year ago
we use 100 % of our brain but we dont use 100 % of our brain potential ;)
WargoDsssss 1 year ago 2
@WargoDsssss
I am thinking the quote actually means than people have a lot of potential, they just don't tap into all of it. They could do more with their lives, instead, they let whatever hold them back.
CybernautZero 1 year ago
Wow yea we use 100% of our brain when at 0:29 you can clearly see the blue inactivity. Who hired this failure to be a doctor.
iTzGiNz 1 year ago
the blue parts merely show that there is little activity in that part of the brain, but still some... if there was no activity there, the parts would be black just as they are outside the brain, but they aren't...
if you still go in believing this myth, perhaps you use only 10% of YOUR brain...
FormulaOneFan4Eva 1 year ago
DAMN IT! There goes one of my explainations and mankinds excuses too. This just can't be right... can it?!
If all of us are using 100% of our brains throughout the day then.... why are the majority of Humans STILL so dumb? I guess it all really does boil down to a matter of choice then......... fuck. Changing opinions is tough work.
MinionOfDeth2112 1 year ago
we use 100% of our brain? then how do we learn stuff? if we used 100% shouldn't we know how to do everything then? the brain needs to be trained to use 100%, we don't use 10% either, how would anyone know how much % we use. meditation teaches us things we didn't even know we could do. some people can use there mind to feel no pain, some people can actually use there mind to increase power. there is a video of a monk meditating while standing on one fingure. explain that? no one knows shit!
hughesphillip 1 year ago
@hughesphillip ya the shoaling stuff is cool, it is called, Chi
Shift4chizzle 1 year ago
@Shift4chizzle yeah i know about Chi, without meditation you can't use chi. almost all people can't perform chi because you need NO negative energy at all for it to work. it's almost impossible that's why you only hear of shaolin monks doing these incredible thing. only pathetic people who are so called "profesionals" think that the power of Chi and Ki energy is fake. think out side the square, you'll learn alot.
hughesphillip 1 year ago
@hughesphillip i believe in it
Shift4chizzle 1 year ago
I think what W.J. Sidis meant was that we only use ~10% of our mental energy, as opposed to the view this video takes of neural locales in the brian used by volume. He's saying don't be mentally lazy, in a sort. In doing so he's using his neural connections better, rather than other quantities or sections of grey matter.
smckenzie25 1 year ago
Using 10% only, in what way?? The brain actually handles every single involuntary process in our body including voluntary movements, regulatory functions and the thinking process. What is basis for this 10% shit? Who is the dumbass that said this shit?!
Blitz4000 1 year ago
if we use 100% doesnt that mean we are kinda overloading and we should need a larger brain to use less that a 100% does any1 else think that?
CHRIS11OF11ABERNANT 1 year ago
we do use 100% of our brain....I'm surprised so many people believe that myth that we use 10%
I mean if you think you know better, since I am a measly 2nd year medical student, then tell me which part of the brain exactly, is not used...
TheLostGuitarist 1 year ago
none lol, every part of the brain has a function and is active to some degree at all times. =)
FormulaOneFan4Eva 1 year ago
@TheLostGuitarist
Don't we actually use the different portions to do different things? It's not that we use 10 percent, it's that parts of the brain have their own specialties. We use different parts at different times to do different things, or many parts at once when trying to accomplish something that requires multiple skills.
CybernautZero 1 year ago
B.S Brother..... We do use 10 percent of our brain. The other 90 percent we haven't learned how to use like Meditating....having the force ( like in starwars) and other things the 10 percent of the brain we use is what we do in our daily life like walk and talk. But after we learn how to control the other 90 percent we can learn to do extraordinary things and change human life forever.
whathebuckfan 1 year ago
@whathebuckfan I hope you are joking....
And I really, really hope you've never studied neuroscience....
we use 100% of our brain. Unless you think you know more than every neurologist, neurosurgeon, and neuroscientist in the world
TheLostGuitarist 1 year ago
Bullshit!!!
nsrs11 2 years ago
this guy is lieing the goverment wants us to use 10 % so we dont get to smart so they invent things to make us lazy and dumb then they send us school to lern stuff they have made up instead of things we need to no
strelley1 2 years ago
@strelley1 it's not the government, it's human ignorance. if you KNOW you can do the impossible set your mind to it because you can :)
hughesphillip 1 year ago
Just ask this scientician!
sublime361 2 years ago
i use 9% the others at your house banging your mom
hortontay 2 years ago