Do we really use only ten percent of our brains?
Someone has taken most of your brain away, and you probably didn’t even know it. Well, not taken your brain away, exactly, but decided that you don’t use it. It’s the old myth heard time and again about how people use only 10% of their brains. While for the people who repeat that myth, it’s probably true, the rest of us happily use all of our brains.That tired 10% claim pops up all the time. In 1998, national magazine ads forshowed a drawing of a brain.
One reason this myth has endured is that it has been adopted by psychics and other paranormal pushers to explain psychic powers. On more than one occasion I’ve heard psychics tell their audiences, “We only use ten percent of our minds. If scientists don’t know what we do with the other ninety percent, it must be used for psychic powers!” In, author Michael Clark mentions a man named Craig Karges.
, which aired in July of 1998. Myss, who has written books on unleashing “intuitive powers,” said that everyone has intuitive gifts, and lamented that we use so little of the mind’s potential. To make matters worse, just the week before, on the very same program, correct information was presented about the myth.
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