I'd rather someone at least go with the middle ground of saying we only using 10% at a given time than saying we only use 10% at all. I could say I'm only flexing 10% of my muscles while sitting in a chair operating a remote control, but that doesn't automatically mean I don't use 100% of my muscles. (I at least hope that the 10% of the brain other people think we use includes breathing and temperature controls while I'm brushing my teeth, otherwise I'm generally fucked.)
At least with that middle ground they aren't fully perpetuating the entire 10% myth and are working to chop away at other people's perceptions of it. Most of that secondary way of looking at it comes from the MRI images that are trying to track heavy activity during a certain mental exercise by excluding the areas of lesser activity (read: all the rest of the brain). Scan a newborn's brain and that thing's gonna be lit up like a Christmas tree, because everything is new, everything is novel, everything is noise, versus an adult or even young child where noise in the environment (noise in the input systems) are being filtered in order to focus on non-noise things with sharp teeth that can hurt you.
Also, I honestly had a previous co-worker say that she really should look into yoga to help her use more than 10% of her brain. I was behind a cubicle wall at the moment so she couldn't see my response, but my roommate who was also a co-worker at the time was across the room and could see both of us and had to stifle laughing at my ACTUAL headdesk response. She really did think yoga could help with her brain problem.........
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At least with that middle ground they aren't fully perpetuating the entire 10% myth and are working to chop away at other people's perceptions of it. Most of that secondary way of looking at it comes from the MRI images that are trying to track heavy activity during a certain mental exercise by excluding the areas of lesser activity (read: all the rest of the brain). Scan a newborn's brain and that thing's gonna be lit up like a Christmas tree, because everything is new, everything is novel, everything is noise, versus an adult or even young child where noise in the environment (noise in the input systems) are being filtered in order to focus on non-noise things with sharp teeth that can hurt you.
Also, I honestly had a previous co-worker say that she really should look into yoga to help her use more than 10% of her brain. I was behind a cubicle wall at the moment so she couldn't see my response, but my roommate who was also a co-worker at the time was across the room and could see both of us and had to stifle laughing at my ACTUAL headdesk response. She really did think yoga could help with her brain problem.........