Let’s assume we do, in fact, use only 10% of our brain. If you could unlock the remaining 90%, what would you do with it? And what does it mean to be the same thing, in different forms?
The sound of brains singing in tune
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Brain Power.” and to the weekly challenge
Our brains are magnificent. In it sits our personality, our potential and our own worst enemies. It stores all of our memories. It is our identity, our saviors and our sinners.
I have been interested in the brain since I started to study psychology. That this grey mass was us , was almost impossible to grasp. In our study we even had to touch a brain, and it felt both surreal and wonderful at the same time. This year I did a brain scan, and it felt even more surreal to watch ME on the screen in front of me.
You can see the picture of it, here.
So, what would I do if I could unlock 90 % of my potential? I would save the world.
Naive, I know. But impossible tasks have always intrigued me, as I know that thousands of people have made the impossible possible time and time again. The people who challenge prejudices and borders, changed the world. Without them, we would have no internet, no wheels, no knowledge.
I know exactly what I would do to change the world. I would ask everyone I knew to do one random act of kindness every week. I believe in the butterfly effect, that states that all we do, has an effect on something else. Like ripples in a pond, kind acts would reinforce themselves. They would grow exponentially, and many catastrophes would be avoided. Just think about it: How do you feel when someone helps you? Most people would want to return the favor, and even if some people would`t, kindness still would spread like a fire in the forest. We would be unable to stop it, because love and compassion respects no boundaries. Kindness has greater force than anything else. Our logical brains would`t have a chance, because love is stronger and more potent.. We would beat even the most intelligent brains, and nothing could stop us. My ideal way to use 100 % of my brain, would be to connect all the brains in the world. If we all knew everything, by drinking from the well of wisdom that we all possess, there would be nothing we could`t do.
January 16, 2015 at 11:47
I always wondered how they (who are they) know that ninety per cent is not used. Maybe it is. Maybe it is used to generate the dreams which haunt us at night. Maybe they are creating a separate world where we dream in the day like Walter Mitty. Maybe they are signalling the aliens in space who use the electronic movement of atoms to generate their machines on some world like a movie. Maybe they are playing pin ball with ideas in a mind that does not recognize the input or output. Ninety per cent, did Einstein use more of his brain? How do they measure it?
January 22, 2015 at 03:51
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January 22, 2015 at 20:37
Thank you! Will look at your blog;)
January 24, 2015 at 15:37
Wow! How amazing to see your own brain like that!
Very thought provoking post.
Debbie
January 24, 2015 at 19:53
Thank you dear
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