Unraveling the Ten Percent Brain Myth The Neuroscience of Ultimate Human Performance1

What all this neuroscience has taught us is that a lot of our old ideas about ultimate human performance are very very wrong In fact the most famous of these old ideas is what's known as the ten percent brain myth This is something you've probably all heard of It's the idea that at any 1 point we're just using a small portion of our brain say ten percent So ultimate performance aka flow must be the full brain on overdrive right Turns out we actually had it exactly backwards