Ten Percent of the Brain Myth
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Ten Percent of the Brain Myth
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#2If Albert Einstein's brain uses exactly same energy as mine, then 90% of latter is going to nowhere.
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#3If Albert Einstein's brain uses exactly same energy as mine, then 90% of latter is going to nowhere.
Finding something in a sorted list is O(log n) instead of O(n) in non-sorted. Finding a good representation for the problem matters.
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#4If Albert Einstein's brain uses exactly same energy as mine, then 90% of latter is going to nowhere.
Einstein wasn't wasting time on social media. Maybe you need to free up your mind's resources to focus on the things you want to do.
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#5If Albert Einstein's brain uses exactly same energy as mine, then 90% of latter is going to nowhere.
Einstein wasn't wasting time on social media. Maybe you need to free up your mind's resources to focus on the things you want to do.
I don't know... Einstein had a lot of love affairs and debated about philosophy with some friends and was very politically active (e.g. he wrote pro-socialism articles for newspapers). In the context of theoretical physics all of this sounds like wasting time to me. Some brains are just exceptionally wired and people are able to accomplish amazing things, given the right mindset and tenacity.
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#6Kinda bizarre that people allegedly misattributed this to Einstein, a physicist
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#7It's a bit like saying a piano player will only use 10% of the keys at a time.
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#8>Studies of brain damage: If 10 percent of the brain is normally used, then damage to other areas should not impair performance
This is unbelievably naive to use as some sort of proof, using 10% does not imply that its 10% of the physical organ. Rather 10% compared to what one could do with better training, improved lifestyle, etc. And this does not have to be purely intellectual, it can be imagination capabilities, communication skills or hundreds of other things which a particular individual did not develop fully.
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#9It's a bit like saying a piano player will only use 10% of the keys at a time.
This is an extremely good analogy that I must remember (if case anyone quotes this myth to me again, which hasn't happened in a couple of decades... :)
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#10Kinda bizarre that people allegedly misattributed this to Einstein, a physicist
He's the quintessential authority figure; it's not surprising that people will try to add weight to something by attributing it to Einstein. Most people will just think "Ah Einstein was really clever, if he said that there must be something to it".
https://interestingengineering.com/13-inspiring-einstein-quo...