“It is a myth that we only use 10% of our human brain.”
It is common to hear this statement, alarmingly even from a few people who label themselves as “scientific” or as researchers.
In actuality, such a comment as above, is more misleading itself than the so-called myth of unused brain potential.
Think.
You no more use 90% of your brain potential than you use 90% of your muscle potential all of the time.
To say that we use all of our brain, would be like saying Arnold Schwarzenegger or Lou Firigno had as 90 pound teenagers reached the pinnacle of their muscular development.
You no more use all of your brain all of the time than you use 100% of your lung capacity sitting at your computer keyboard.
You no more use all of your brain all of the time than you use all of your car all of the time; that you always drive at the full potential of your Honda; that you always drive at the top speed of your car; that your trunk and seats are always filled to capacity; that you have even figured out and daily employ every single way in which you could use your car.
To say that we use all of our brain ignores the fact that you keep losing your car keys all the time.
To say that we use all of our brain ignores the fact that you couldn’t remember where you left your car in the parking garage- even though this is well within your brain potential.
Sir John Eccles has stated his feelings on the infinite potential of the human brain, and he won the Noble prize.
Such a statement that “We use all of our brain all of the time” or “It is a myth that we only use 10% of our brain” are both misleading and unhelpful uninspiring skeptical crumbs with barely a grain of truth- As well as not even being accurate statements regarding usage of the human brain.
Humans have an unlimited capacity to learn. Unlike computers, no human brain has ever said: “Hard drive full.”
A simple look at brain scans will show us that the brain modulates dramatically from one moment to the next in regards to its activity and usage. Here it is then, on the screen of Functional MRI machines and Pet scans, incontrovertible evidence that we do not use all of our brain all of the time.
To say “we use all of our brain all of the time” says nothing about the potential of human intelligence, creativity, and problem solving. Such a skeptical rebuttal of the vast potential of the human think machine implies that we have reached our limits of brain potential- probably the most harmful dead end notion of all. We haven’t even gotten close.
Our frontal lobes have been culturally and socially lobotomized. At this stage of evolution, we are simply still Apes With Pencils.
That’s actually very good news.
So, as it turns out, to say that “We only use 10% of our brain, only 10% of our brain potential”- this is actually an infinitely optimistic, as well as a considerably reasonable and thoughtful perspective of the possibilities that reside inside our craniums.
It also clearly states that despite not using all our brain all the time, we do use all of it at some stage- which is what 
It’s curious cause I believe I’ve seen some scientific reports about boosting muscles by visualization. 
