Short video transcript arguing against the myth that humans use only 10% of their brains. The speaker explains that the brain uses different regions at different times, that memories are distributed across clusters of brain areas, and that connections between memory components weaken without reinforcement; this can affect performance under pressure. The speaker also notes that some ADHD individuals can perform well under pressure (e.g., 911 responders) because they can rapidly focus.
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You know, they say, well, we only use 10% of your brain. It's not true. You were used 100% of your brain. You just use different parts at different times for different things. And there's a thing that you do on a hard drive where your hard drive, you start scattering data around your hard drive as you use it. Over time, that hard drive has bits and pieces of the same program all over the hard drive. And to pick it up, the hard drive head has to go look for it. It's got to go find it and assemble it and then put it back into ram. Over time, the same thing happens in the brain. You got bits and pieces of memories located in different places that were happened to be active during those events. There are clusters of areas where certain kind of memory and activity happen. What happens over time is the connections between those components of memory grow weaker unless you reinforce them. That's why under pressure, certain people fail and certain people just completely activate. If you go to a 911 center, you'll often find that the people that are the best responders to that are adhd. Because once under pressure, that ADHD mind suddenly goes, I know how to focus.
