Do you think you know how to use more than 90% of your brain? HOw much do you think einstein used.?
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Its not how much you have to use.  Its how you use what you have.  Einstein is someone who used what he had, but that does not mean that he had all that much more then the rest of us.  His IQ was not extaordinary ( around 150 if I remember right), but the things he did with his brain were.
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Yes, of course.\n\nYour brain is like a lot of muscles - if untrained, it works less well.\n\nWith regular training and thinking, especially "thinking around the bend" or "thinking out of the box" you will boost your capacity.\n\nProbably, even with the best training you won't reach the brain capacity of Einstein, but you will notice great improvements.
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Einstein's IQ was about 160 which is NOT so high , a have friends with higher IQ . it is important but it's not all
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Yes.  I did some double blind tests in High school which objectively could be written off any number of ways, except that as the recipient of one experiment, the experience was so profound, I came away a believer.\n\nOur experiment was that one person was to go to sleep at a particular hour, with a radio playing pop music softly in the room.  The other person, about an hour later, across town was to try to send a telepathic message to wake up when a certain popular song was played.  The recipient did not know what song was selected.  When/if the recipient woke up, he was to write down whatever song was playing.\n\nWe had a pretty high hit rate.  As the subject of one round I remember being in a deep sleep, dreaming, when the opening bars of the theme from Star Wars (this was about 1977) ripped through my dreams like an explosion and yanked me instantly and fully awake.  It was about 2:30 am, and as a 14 year old I NEVER woke in the middle of the night.  The mere sound didn't do it, the radio was on so softly you could barely hear it, but that song woke me up like the orchestra was right in the room with me.  The next day we confirmed that the suggestion was indeed to wake when star wars played.\n\nAnd all that crap about we use only 10% of our brain is just that: a lot of crap.  Most of the brain power you're "not using" is being used to perform tasks below your conscious level to even enable you to be conscious!  Far more than 10% of the brain is used just in processing visual stimuli.  Same with language and communication processing.  Stop and think of the hideous amount of firmware necessary to run - perfectly - for me to be able to process my thoughts into language, and then translate them into finger motions over a keybopard at the incredible rate of 60wpm just to write this message.  Just reading this message takes up more than 10% of your brainpower before you even get to the point where you can think about what it says.
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Einstein's brain lacked a particular small wrinkle (the parietal operculum) that most people have. Perhaps in compensation, other regions on each side were a bit enlarged—the inferior parietal lobes. These regions are known to have something to do with visual imagery and mathematical thinking. Thus Einstein was apparently better equipped than most people for a certain type of thinking.\n\nThe website below has more details.
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hey, a lot of people are really smart...\n\nArthur Conan Doyle wrote "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" etc... and he was one of the greatest detective before.\n\nAlbert Einstein discovered a lot of theories without using any experiment tools and stuff, so wouldn't anyone think it's neat?\n\nThe Couple Pierre and Marie Curie contributed a lot in the periodic table, so they could be big time geniuses themselves...\n\nBill Gates never graduated, but indeed he made what we're using right now, correct?\n\nwho knows? maybe someone might keep on dominating that role, and hopefully, he/she would be of much use to the whole world...
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Did you know that Einstein, one of the greatest inventor and thinker of the modern history, was raised with Homeschooling?\n\nOne day little Einstein came home crying to his mother.\nHer mother asked what's wrong, and this is the exact words Einstein used: "My teacher told me I'm no good at anything. She told me I'm slow, don't have any talent and won't be successful in anything."\n\nHearing that, her mother decided to stop sending Einstein to school, and teach him by herself. The rest is history.\n\nYou will get many many comment on how is his/her social skill if he/she doesn't socialize. Well, I would ask them what kind of society you are talking about? The society that tells how inadequate you are? The society that tells you that you won't succed in anything?\nNo way I'm gonna send my kids to that.\n\nYou are doing a good thing. This way you get to pick what kind of socialization your kids are having. You get to pick the positive, affirming society that can tap your kids' potential to the max.\n\nI strongly suggest you read this book: \n"If you want to be rich and happy, Don't go to school", by Robert Kiyosaki.\nThis book will open your eyes on how our schooling system create loosers instead of winners. You will be happier not sending your kids to school.\n\nIf I have kids, I would do the same thing you do.
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You have your facts a little messed up. The truth is that we use all our brain. However, at any given moment, we are only using about 5% or less of our brain. This is why we can't do a million things at once and why some people have trouble chewing gum and walking at the same time. So while only 5% of our brain is in use at any given moment, there is not a single part of brain that does not perform a function and we do in fact use 100% of our brain throughout the day.
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Do you consider yourself to be very clever?
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Okay.  This is a common misconception perpetrated by those wonderful PSAs with David Schwimmer and the likes.\n\nWhen scientists came out with research saying that you only use 20% of their brain, they meant that you only use 10-20% of your brain at any given time.\n\nSomehow, the media grabbed ahold of this and misinterpreted it to mean that you only use 20% of your brain in your lifetime.\n\nHere's how it actually works.  Throughout the course of a given day, you will use 100% of your brain.  Only about 15% or so is electrically active at any given point in time (for the average person).  Certain portions of your brain are active during certain activities, whether it be reading or riding a bike or anything else.\n\nThe magnificent thing about the brain is its efficiency.  If you do not use a set of neurons in the brain, they will disconnect from their neighboring neurons and sometimes die by apoptosis (mostly in development, but this occurs throughout life).  When a neuron pulls away from other neurons, more will extend to make new connections.  This way, the brain is constantly keeping otherwise unused portions used.\n\nSo to answer your question, you are already using 100% of your brain!  The real question here is: how do I use my brain's potential more effectively?\n\nWell, keep healthy, physically and mentally.  Exercise to keep your blood flowing to your brain, feeding it.  Drink water to help this process.  Do mentally stimulating activities: read books, write, paint, think of things!  Meditate!  Train your ability to focus on one thing at a time.  Train your ability to multitask.  Turn off the TV.  Go outside and enjoy nature.  Relax.  Help kids with their homework.  Study something.\n\n~The more you know\n\nlol
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Get a brain first....
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in a proper way using your brain
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Out of your suggestions you violate some rules of estimation. The closest the mind can get to is 456,000 and if to convert it to an estimate you might wanna think of 460,000.
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i believe it is possible. we use less than 10 % of our brain. it is believed that if we could use more then we could fly, move things with our minds, and read peoples thoughts.
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IT WOLD BE GREAT IF WE COULD GET EINSTEIN BACK TO WORK ON IT.EINSTEIN SAID IT WOULD WORK,AND WE HAVE NO OTHER BRAIN CLOSE TO HIS.I BELIEVE IF HE WOULD HAVE LIVED LONGER HE COULD HAVE SOLVED IT.THEN AGAIN IT MAY TAKE ANOTHER COUPLE HUNDRED YEARS,LIKE IT DID BETWEEN NEWTON AND EINSTEIN.MINDS LIKE THEIRS ONLY SHOW UP RARELY.
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do you really want someone else to think for you?\nhmmm...well then...\nhere it goes...\n1. look in your math book...there are examples of how to do this problem...\n2. same answer as above!!!\n#3... same...\n\n#4!!!! remember Einstein solved "un-solve able" problems!!!
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We *can* use 100% of our brain. This is a very strange, but common misconception. All parts of our brain have various functions and all are used. \n\nThe likely source of this myth is the discovery long ago that only about 10% of our neurons are firing at a time. That does not mean only ten percent fire ever, but on average, that is how many fire at any given time.   On that line of thinking, if 100% of our neurons were to fire at once, we would be having a severe seizure.