How to optimise the brain's potential?

Question

Average people use less than 10% of his/her brainpower. What happen to other 90%? Can the remaining 90% of the brain be tapped? How?

Answer 1

You use 100% of your brain all the time. You may be consciously aware of only 10% of your brain activity, but the other 90% is always working. Think of all the activity your brain has to mediate....sensation, perception, thoughts, movement, your circulatory system, your circadian rhythm....and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Almost every nerve cell in our brains is active most of the time. Scientists can detect this activity by measuring the electrical currents of nerve cells near the surface of the brain. More complex tests like PET (Positron Emission Tomography) can detect oxygen consumption, blood flow or glucose consumption (the sugar that is the brain fuel) by active neurons in all areas of the brain, not just the surface. Just about ALL of the human brain is busy all the time—even when we're sound asleep.

Answer 2

The human brain is similar to a computer in many ways. The neurons link synaptically into networks that are the circuitry for thought, i.e. information processing. We are all born with this kind of organic HARDWARE, with some minor differences in capabilities of components.

The mental skills we learn throughout life - memory, concentration, intuition, emotion management, learning, association, imagination, creativity, logic, troubleshooting, categorizing, language, problem solving, decision-making, planning, organization...you get the idea...all these are like SOFTWARE in the brain because they process information.

The perceptions, concepts, facts and associations that we create are the DATA.

Your brain's potential depends not on the hardware so much as the software and data that you load onto your brain-computer through learning during your lifetime. THAT is how you tap the other 90%...learning. Learn better mental skills. Load signficant data rather than BS, trivial data.

You asked "How." This is how. Are you a lifelong learner? Many, many people are.

Answer 3

Like most genius. they have the desire to learn

as saying that ...your statement of just using 10% of your brain has never been proven

someone always ask this same question over and over..maybe you have ..but you tap your brain by education and stimulate the thinking process..or Davine intervention ...SCWL Subconscious to Conscious Without Limitation..subliminal learning..it works too

Answer 4

More research needs to be done into the other 90% of the brain to answer your question...