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It'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... :)
[1] https://forge.medium.com/maslows-pyramid-is-a-marketing-lie-...
It's amazing to think how common these sorts of myths used to be before the internet. If you heard something like this and wanted to challenge it, you would have to get on the bus and spend a couple of hours at the library and return with some photocopies. Now you can pull up Wikipedia on your phone.
It's a crazy phenomenon to watch play out.
It's amazing to think how common these sorts of myths used to be before the internet. If you heard something like this and wanted to challenge it, you would have to get on the bus and spend a couple of hours at the library and return with some photocopies. Now you can pull up Wikipedia on your phone.
There are plenty of post-internet myths that are humming along just fine. :D It's a crazy phenomenon to watch play out.
Kinda bizarre that people allegedly misattributed this to Einstein, a physicist
>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,…
It'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... :)