Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

What Happens If You Use 90 Percent Of Your Brain?

18 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Utkarsh Narang explores the myth that 90 percent of your brain sits unused. The reality: most subconscious processes like heart rate and language work best without conscious attention. The useful move is targeting specific harmful patterns, not trying to monitor everything.

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You're saying 90% of what's happening in our brain is below that consciousness. And my assumption is that if we were to tap into that, that might unlock tremendous energies, tremendous action, tremendous awareness for all of us. What do you think is your experience and understanding what happens when someone's able to tap into that 90%? So I'd love to have you share on that. And then once you do that, then let's dive into maybe giving them 3 steps, 3 actions that they can think through that. But first, like, if someone were to tap into that 90%, What opens up for them?
Yeah, I think it's interesting. I think I think about it in a different way. Like, it's not that that 90% isn't, you know, working for you. I think sometimes it's really important that that 90% stays subconscious because a lot of it is things that we don't need to be aware of. So parts of our brain is regulating our heart rate, different parts of our physiology as well, like generating words. Like, it's all kind of popping up out of somewhere, and we don't need to be aware of or in control of all of that. But I think it's important to start to notice when patterns are not serving us and can be harmful for us, and then start to have some more regulation. So it's not about being aware of everything that our brain's doing because we'd be totally incapacitated.