The old 'only using 10% of your brain' myth

We often hear and have heard it misquoted - you're only using 10% of your brain and how would you like to use the other 90 percent? But what do they mean by this; was this the real quote? Did Einstein say any of this and was he really quoted to have said that we only use 10% of our brain?

The short answer is that the 10% is largely a misused figure and there are many explanations for the figure. For instance, 10% of what we call 'the brain' consist of neurons - there are other cells. Early studies did demonstrate that with any firing of neurons, only 10% lit up, but that is within any one period of time. Over a few minutes with different functions being carried out, a different profile is found. Might it be true that we only use 10% of our capabilities? Surely this figure would vary with different people. How do you measure our capabilities?

The following references and excerpts should give you some insight into the potential origins, the makeup of the brain and other considerations on this topic.

That tired Ten-Percent claim pops up all the time

The Ten-Percent Myth, Ben Radford, Volume 23.2, March / April 1999

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 ten percent 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.

Benjamin Radford is a scientific paranormal investigator, a Research Fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, managing Editor for Skeptical Inquirer magazine, and author or co-author of five books and hundreds of articles on skepticism, critical thinking, and science literacy. His newest book is Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries. He is also a columnist for Discovery News and LiveScience.com.

Humans use 100 percent of their brains--despite the popular myth

Thomas Cleland, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in biology

Where did the "10% myth" first come from? It isn't clear. It might be because less than 10% of the cells in our brains are actually neurons (nerve cells) - the rest are called glial cells. Glial cells perform all kinds of different tasks, from insulating the brain's "wires" to maintaining the brain's chemistry to helping regulate the many connections among neurons (called synapses) in which memory can be stored. Glial cells aren't neurons, but they are certainly being used! The myth could also have arisen because much of the brain is fairly adaptable, allowing people (especially young people) to recover most of their capabilities even after losing parts of their brains to injury, cancer, or surgery. This isn't always true, however; it is harder for older adults to recover function after brain injury, and we know that even small amounts of brain damage (such as strokes) in just the wrong places can be devastating.

Do We Really Only Use 10% of Our Brains?

Every once in a while I hear someone say “we only use 10% of our brain.” In the movie “The Secret,” they say we only use 5% of our brain. I don’t believe it. Where did this come from? - Secret Identity

Dear SI,

The idea that we only use 10% of our brains is alluring. Why, just imagine what we could do if we somehow switched on the other 90%. Telekinesis! Mind reading! Time travel! Forging an army of zombie slaves! Who wouldn’t trade their crystal balls for powers like those?

Sadly, the myth has been pretty thoroughly debunked. It is true that, at any given time, we only use portions of our brains. Brain imaging bears this out. But that doesn’t mean that we have vast, untapped reserves of psychic abilities.

The most apt analogy is muscle. We don’t use our entire brain at once any more than we use all of our muscles at once. But follow someone around for a day or two, and eventually they will use just about every muscle and every part of the brain – the good folks at the DMV notwithstanding. ....Read on

Do we really use only 10 percent of our brains?

Barry L. Beyerstein of the Brain Behavior Laboratory at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver explains.

Whenever I venture out of the Ivory Tower to deliver public lectures about the brain, by far the most likely question I can expect as the talk winds up is, "Do we really only use 10 percent of our brains?" The look of disappointment that usually follows when I say it isn't so strongly suggests that the 10-percent myth is one of those hopeful shibboleths that refuses to die simply because it would be so darn nice if it were true. I'm sure none of us would turn down a mighty hike in brainpower if it were attainable, and a seemingly never-ending stream of crackpot schemes and devices continues to be advanced by hucksters who trade on the myth. Always on the lookout for a "feel-good" story, the media have also played their part in keeping the myth alive.

....One stream leads back to the pioneering American psychologist, William James, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to his voluminous scholarly work, James was a prodigious author of popular articles offering advice to the general public. In these exhortatory works James was fond of stating that the average person rarely achieves but a small portion of his or her potential. I was never able to find an exact percentage mentioned, and James always talked in terms of one's undeveloped potential, apparently never relating this to a specific amount of gray matter engaged. A generation of "positive thinking" gurus that followed were not so careful, however, and gradually "10 percent of our capacity" morphed into "10 percent of our brain." Undoubtedly, the biggest boost for the self-help entrepreneurs came when the famous adventurer and journalist Lowell Thomas attributed the 10-percent-of-the-brain claim to William James. Thomas did so in the preface he wrote, in 1936, to one of the best-selling self-help books of all time, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. The myth has never lost its steam since.

Seriously, Would You Admit to Only Using 10% of Your Brain?

Mind-myth 1: Like many of the myths now seemingly fuelled by New Agers hoping to unlock the untapped, hidden forces that will unleash previously unimagined human potential, the 10% myth is a slippery customer.

Just when all the evidence has been marshalled against its original incarnation, showing that, yes, actually we do physically use all our brains, it turns out 'human potential' can't be measured empirically. Apparently the unused 90% is hidden below the surface, out of sight and almost out of mind. Which is convenient....

...Mythical roots

The roots of this myth are very difficult to discern, probably because there are so many different, diffuse stories about its origin. One probably apocryphal story is that Einstein once explained his brilliance - compared to the rest of us mere mortals - by saying he actually used more than 10% of his brain (Wanjek, 2003). Despite probably being based on a misquote, the repeating of this story can't have hurt the myth's power.

Perhaps some of the earliest roots of the myth come from work by physiologists in the 1870s. They routinely applied electrical currents to the brain to see which muscles moved. They found that large parts of the human brain could be zapped without any corresponding bodily twitching. This led them to dub parts of the brain 'silent'. But they didn't mean silent in the sense of inactive, just that it didn't make any muscles move. Of course this didn't stop the phrase being misinterpreted.

Are you really only using 10 percent of your brain?

Kiger, Patrick. "Are you really only using 10 percent of your brain?" 19 August 2009. HowStuffWorks.com. 30 August 2010.

For years, doctors, brain researchers and science journalists have been explaining patiently to anyone who would listen that there is no scientific basis for what they call the 10-percent brain myth. Similarly, prestigious and credible publications like Scientific American and the New York Times have sought to dispel it as well, with little effect [sources: Beyerstein, Parker-Pope]. In a non-scientific Internet poll on the Web site Helium.com, for example, 52 percent of respondents believed incorrectly that humans use only 10 percent of their brains, while 48 percent correctly disagreed [source: Helium]. The mistaken notion is so pervasive, in fact, that in a study published in the Journal of Psychology in 1998, researchers found that college psychology majors, who presumably should know better, were as likely to believe it as other students [source: Higbee].


Scientific American, Do People Only Use 10 Percent Of Their Brains?

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior

Refutation from wikipedia is the most concise:



Neuroscientist Barry Beyerstein sets out seven kinds of evidence refuting the ten percent myth:

* Studies of brain damage: If 90% of the brain is normally unused, then damage to these areas should not impair performance. Instead, there is almost no area of the brain that can be damaged without loss of abilities. Even slight damage to small areas of the brain can have profound effects.

* Evolution: The brain is enormously costly to the rest of the body, in terms of oxygen and nutrient consumption. If 90% of it were unnecessary, there would be a large survival advantage to humans with smaller, more efficient brains. If this were true, the process of natural selection would have eliminated the inefficient brains.

* Brain imaging: Technologies such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) allow the activity of the living brain to be monitored. They reveal that even during sleep, all parts of the brain show some level of activity. Only in the case of serious damage does a brain have "silent" areas.

* Localization of function: Rather than acting as a single mass, the brain has distinct regions for different kinds of information processing. Decades of research has gone into mapping functions onto areas of the brain, and no function-less areas have been found.

* Microstructural analysis: In the single-unit recording technique, researchers insert a tiny electrode into the brain to monitor the activity of a single cell. If 90% of cells were unused, then this technique would have revealed that.

* Metabolic studies: Another scientific technique involves studying the take-up of radioactively labelled 2-deoxyglucose molecules by the brain. If 90 percent of the brain were inactive, then those inactive cells would be show up as blank areas in a radiograph of the brain. Again, there is no such result.

* Neural disease: Brain cells that are not used have a tendency to degenerate. Hence if 90% of the brain were inactive, autopsy of adult brains would reveal large-scale degeneration.

Walking to protect your memory

It is great to use NLP and other tools to expand your choices in life, make better use of your mind and body, develop yourself and improve, but we must not neglect our mind and body from an holistic point of view. This article Walk Much? It May Protect Your Memory Down the Road suggests that walking at least six miles per week may protect brain size and in turn, preserve memory in old age, according to a study published in the October 13, 2010, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

"If regular exercise in midlife could improve brain health and improve thinking and memory in later life, it would be one more reason to make regular exercise in people of all ages a public health imperative," said Erickson. Read more....

Walking improves other areas of health too... Australian guidelines recommend 30 minutes of moderately vigorous activity on most days. But the report says even 60 minutes a week can bring benefits. From smh.com.au

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Bully or Victim? More Similar Than We Might Think

A new analysis reveals that bullies and victims share more similarities than we might think, with one stand-out difference. Christie Nicholson reports from http://www.scientificamerican.com

We might think that bullies are quite different from the victims of bullying. But those who become either a bully or a victim actually share similar outlooks and have similar difficulties dealing with their environments. There is, however, one significant risk factor for bullying.

Researchers reviewed and analyzed 153 studies and found that both victims and bullies have poor problem-solving skills within social situations. They also found that boys bully more than girls but here’s a significant point: Those who do poorly in school are at a higher risk of becoming a bully. The research was published this week in the journal School Psychology Quarterly.

Typical bullies have negative attitudes toward others, feel badly about themselves, and most likely grew up in a home with conflict. Victims share much of same, negative attitude, conflict in the family.

But the dividing characteristic: bullies dislike school and tend to perform worse academically than those who later become victims.

Play the 1 minute Podcast here: podcast_100710.mp3

Most current solutions try to enforce anti-bullying rules or simply remove the bully from bullying situations. The authors note, however, that the most successful intervention is three-pronged. They suggest simultaneously targeting the areas that may be influencing the potential bully or victim in the first place: the parents, the peers and the schools.

--Christie Nicholson from http://www.scientificamerican.com


Coping with the bullies 'is part of growing up', says child expert By LAURA CLARK, 28 October 2007
Minor playground spats are blown out of proportion and branded 'bullying', an expert has claimed.

Youngsters must learn to cope with teasing and name-calling so they are able to handle awkward situations as adults, former Government adviser Tim Gill says.

He believes the extent of bullying is being exaggerated by over-protective parents and teachers, who apply the label to childhood squabbles which were previously assumed to be part of growing up.

The claims, in a book published today, are certain to fuel concerns over the escalation of the bullying 'industry'.

Police officers warned this year that a target-chasing culture is forcing them to make 'easy' arrests for offences such as bullying.

In one example, a child in Kent was arrested for throwing a slice of cucumber from a tuna sandwich at a classmate.

The latest Government guidance to schools urges heads to record all instances of bullying and report the findings to their local council.

But Mr Gill, who led the first Government-backed review of children's play areas in 2003, warns against mollycoddling children by describing everyday teasing as bullying.


Read more of this article: dailymail.co.uk

See also related articles on Mirror neurons, Emotional Intelligence and The Impact of Rude Behavior on a Business which might be where unresolved bullying or victims end up getting their revenge.

Busting the Myth That Opposites Attract

Psychologist Donn Byrne states in this post, "we are twice as likely to be attracted to someone when we agree on six out of 10 issues than we are with someone who we only agree with on three out of 10 issues". This would get down to what we consider to be an 'issue'.

Starting from scratch in a relationship, there may be no real major issues that arise in our conversations or opinions, because we are busy finding sameness to build rapport because there is attraction. If one has a difference of opinion on politics or religion, these days we might find this refreshing and not an 'issue'. Are we going to ask the right questions when it comes to decisions and choices relating to partner choices? How do we build our relationships amongst issues? Are our issues really tied to values? Are our values the real things that matter when it comes to relationships?
The other interesting aspect of this whole topic is the area of Myths about psychology - where this may be in the myth category, but overiding that is the use of the words ('opposite' and 'issue') which is where NLP helps us to refine the meaning that we derive from words.
In NLP, using the precision model of communication, we get very precise with language. For these statements we would well ask many of these questions: When we talk about the cultural expression: opposites attract - what do we really mean by "opposite"? Opposite on what level? Opposite of what sepcifically? What is attract? Attraction of what to what? Attract or catch attention?

Let us take a look at the article: When it comes to love, we're ambivalent about "opposites attract". Christie Nicholson from http://www.scientificamerican.com reports.

Back in college astronomy class, I sat behind a guy who wore a T-shirt with this on the back: " The best thing about the opposite sex is just how opposite they are."

It’s not just a rule in physics. There’s a strong cultural expression: opposites attract. Think Harold and Maude, Pretty Woman, It Happened One Night—Hollywood has long known the lure of antitheses in love.

But real research busts this myth.

Play the 1 minute Podcast here: podcast_100731.mp3

Psychologists map out such evidence in a new book: 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio, and Barry L. Beyerstein. Copyright © 2010 by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio, and Barry L. Beyerstein.
See some opinions, and reviews on the same topic.

Psychologist Donn Byrne has found that we are twice as likely to be attracted to someone when we agree on six out of 10 issues than we are with someone who we only agree with on three out of 10 issues.

To be sure, the appeal of shared interests may be specific to long-term relationships.

A 2006 University of Pennsylvania study of speed dating found that daters said they wanted someone who had a similar background in education, religion, economic status and shared personality traits. Yet when they were in the midst of the one-minute date, they made choices based on more immediate cues like physical attraction. In the speed-dating environment—a bar surrounded by singles, under the pressure of a ticking clock—daters made choices based on short-term mating criteria that were more likely to lead to fast hook-ups, not necessarily long-lived love.

So if it’s the long haul you’re searching for, best look beyond the cute face and hot body, and see if you can carry the conversation beyond 60 seconds.


Christie Nicholson http://www.scientificamerican.com


From WebMD By Jean Lawrence,
It depends what you mean by "opposite." "I believe unresolved patterns attract," says Paul Cutright, author of You're Never Upset For The Reason You Think: The Cure For The Common Upset. Cutright, along with his wife Layne, run the Center for Enlightened Partnerships in Las Vegas.

"What most people call falling in love is really falling in pattern... Relationships are about getting our own needs met, often on an unconscious basis. In other words, we try to find someone who is complementary to us and can help us learn, heal, and grow."
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in July of 2003, researchers quizzed 978 heterosexual residents of Ithaca, N.Y., between the ages of 18 and 24. First, the participants rated the importance of 10 attributes of a long-term partner, and then rated themselves on the same scale. When the results were tallied, self-perception was more likely to match mate perception.


Cognitive processes underlying human mate choice: The relationship between self-perception and mate preference in Western society. Peter M. Buston and Stephen T. Emlen, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, Communicated by Thomas Eisner, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 28, 2003 (received for review March 14, 2003)

This study tested two hypotheses concerning the cognitive processes underlying human mate choice in Western society: (i) mate preference is conditional in that the selectivity of individuals' mate preference is based on their perception of themselves as long-term partners, and (ii) the decision rule governing such conditional mate preference is based on translating perception of oneself on a given attribute into a comparable selectivity of preference for the same attribute in a mate. Both hypotheses were supported. A two-part questionnaire was completed by 978 heterosexual residents of Ithaca, New York, aged 18–24; they first rated the importance they placed on 10 attributes in a long-term partner and then rated their perception of themselves on those same attributes. Both women and men who rated themselves highly were significantly more selective in their mate preference. When the 10 attributes were grouped into four evolutionarily relevant categories (indicative of wealth and status, family commitment, physical appearance, and sexual fidelity), the greatest amount of variation in the selectivity of mate preference in each category was explained by self-perception in the same category of attributes. We conclude that, in Western society, humans use neither an “opposites-attract” nor a “reproductive-potentials-attract” decision rule in their choice of long-term partners but rather a “likes-attract” rule based on a preference for partners who are similar to themselves across a number of characteristics.

This conclusion was: "In Western society, humans use neither an 'opposites-attract' nor a 'reproductive-potentials-attract' rule in their choice of long-term partners, but rather a 'likes-attract' rule based on a preference for partners who are similar to themselves across a number of characteristics."


Rapport building is not Opposite or Sameness

It would be too general to say that Rapport is doing the opposite or the same and that atrraction is related to either. They are different aspects of the relationship in question. Dictionaries describe rapport as affinity, agreement, bond, compatibility, concord, empathy, good vibes, good vibrations, groove, harmony, hitting it off, interrelationship, link, relationship, same wavelength, simpatico, soul, sympathy, the groove, togetherness, unity. In NLP terms we would describe rapport as

Influences from Movies and Music


Are we influenced by movies and the unconscious attention we may or may not have to music? I think we are influenced, but we also may have a different belief. When we reference conventional wisdom (movies/music/tv) on the subject, we might find ourselves in a dilemna because they are selling entertainment, not guidance or wisdom. The words by Oliver Leiber of the song "Opposites Attract"recorded by Paula Abdul "She likes it neat, And he makes a mess" may not work out in real life. "Opposites Attract" is a song recorded by Paula Abdul, featured on her debut album Forever Your Girl. It was written and produced by Oliver Leiber, who came up with the title after browsing a bookstore.
Opposites Attract Lyrics, by Artist: Paula Abdul

We come together
Cuz opposites attract
And you know-it ain't fiction
Just a natural fact
We come together
Cuz opposites attract

Who'd a thought we could be lovers
She makes the bed
And steals the covers
She likes it neat
And he makes a mess
I take it easy

Top 10 Opposites Attract Movies from About.com for more on the lighter side of the question of do Opposites Attract?.
In the romantic comedy ''Along Came Polly,'' control freak Reuben (Ben Stiller) meets free spirit Polly (Jennifer Aniston)

So it does depend on what we really mean by "opposite", and opposite on what level? Are we going to ask the right questions when it comes to decisions like this? As Psychologist Donn Byrne said, we are twice as likely to be attracted to someone when we agree on six out of 10 issues than we are with someone who we only agree with on three out of 10 issues. This would get down to what we consider to be an 'issue'.
Starting from scratch in a relationship, there may be no real major issues that arise in our conversations or opinions, because we are busy finding sameness to build rapport because there is attraction. If one has a difference of opinion on politics or religion, these days we might find this refreshing and not an 'issue'. The old metaphor of the river that looks fine while the water is flowing, but when the river starts to dry, the river reveals the boulders that might be laying on the bed, and these might be the 'issues'.
Donn Byrne's comments were about attraction, not sustainability or long term relationships. How do we build our relationships amongst issues? Are our issues really tied to values? Are our values the real things that matter when it comes to relationships? That will be the topic for another article.


Don't worry; be happy

Happy reading...

If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!
Anne Frank

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Scottish Proverb

Homer, lighten up. You're making 'Happy Hour' bitterly ironic.
Marge Simpson

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Aristotle

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Prominent developers of NLP and importent figures who have influenced NLP

There are many prominent developers of NLP and importent figures who have influenced NLP since its inception. Each one of them bringing in their uniquness and infused NLP with multi-faceted applications. Here is a series of videos to get you associated to the names, their voices and ways that they express things, and some of their original work. This is a great way to get a fuller experience when reading their books.

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NLP Academy — 29 April 2009 — John Grinder during his "Healer (Doctor) Within" training, a partial recording of him talking about his unconventional approach for working with alcoholism and other addictions.


John Grinder on Modelling distinctions

Dr. John Grinder's view on short NLP trainings


Dr. John Grinder's Defines NLP

Carmen Bostic-St Claire (Co-creator of New Code NLP) describes the NLP Premier Practitioner experience...


A short extract from the DVD 'Nested Loops' from Richard Bandler:






Stephen Gilligan teaches the first 10 minutes of day 2 of his Generative Trance seminar at the NLP Academy


Milton Erickson


Fritz Perls




Gregory Bateson




Some of Virginia Satir - some content impositions, but you can get a representation of this woman and her work.


Judith DeLozier (earlier Co-creator of New Code NLP) in a rare interview...


Here Frank Farrelly teaches the "What's wrong with that?" Provocative Therapy exercise in a Leeds UK Provocative...



Robert Dilts


Aligning Perceptual Positions (NLP) with Tamara Andreas - Core Transformation DVD Workshop


Steve Andreas



Steve Andreas with EMI (Eye Movement Integration)


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Modeling nature

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Do you think you can Model Nature? A different perspective
Milton Erickson often asked his clients to observe nature to draw inspiration and resolve life’s challenges. When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Can we Model Nature to improve our life? Watch the video [on TED] or here...





See also A publication by Janine Benyus - The 2002 book, Biomimicry, describes a new science that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to provide innovative and sustainable solutions for industry and research development. Author and international expert, Janine Benyus, is now focusing on working with industry and governments across the globe to implement her ideas.

‘Janine Benyus is without question the world’s most imaginative person in the field of environmental development and restoration. Time spent with Janine is a transmission of hope about what we can learn from and be within nature.’ Paul Hawken, Natural Capital Institute

Biomimicry related links

The Biomimicry Institute promotes learning from natural forms, processes, and ecosystems to create more sustainable and healthier human technologies and designs.
Reading Lists - If you haven’t read it already, Janine Benyus’ book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature is a must read. This book is the book that started us all down the biomimicry path with a new sense of hope and purpose. For all, it’s a great read. For many, it’s life changing. If you’ve read Janine’s book, what should you read next? The Biomimicry Reading List (below) will help guide you through the many fascinating facets of biomimicry, from basic biology to engineering innovation to deep economy. We recommend that you start your reading adventure by selecting books from the areas that capture your attention most, and then challenge yourself to read from areas outside your discipline.

Replaying movies of your own day

This has got to be the only way New York looks cute! I love these tilt-shift movies. Look for strange behaviours in people, patterns of relating, walking, dodging, greeting...

Noticing the larger patterns

So much to be said when we mentally speed up people we are modelling and this gives you a long-distance hint into what you can notice.

Ants metaphor

The study of human behaviour can be usefully likened to the way we study ants. Why do we notice that ants stop and communicate or swap someting as they travel with each of the ants they pass? If you can see this movie where people look like ants, and that the work we do with NLP as a metaphor for trying to understand the behaviour of people (ants) and how they interact, relate, rock, sway, move, move faster/slower.

Life Edit

Also as another metaphor, maybe when you are replaying movies of your own day, your own representation of the day - maybe remembering this sequence may help you fast forward through yor own day.



The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.