One last day to let the brain relax and decompress.

Speaking of the brain.

There is a popular movie out now about some broad that is giving as drug so that she is capable of using more of her brain than the popular belief that we use only about 10% of the magnificent organ……but that popular belief may not be accurate……

(Newser) – Reading this, you’re probably using, what … 10% of your brain? Funny how that notion took hold—that we use a tenth of our brain at any given time—because there’s no actual evidence for it, the Conversation reports. The idea may date back to psychologist William James, who wrote in 1907 that we use “only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources,” and a foreword to Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People that loosely quoted James as saying that “the average person develops only 10% of his latent mental ability.” Now, products exist to “unlock the other 90%” and a new thriller, Lucy, shows Scarlett Johansson taking drugs that enable her to use all 100% of her brain.

But, as the Atlantic reports, scientists point out that the brain is an organ packed with living neurons that are always up to something. Brain scans that show only a small active portion of gray matter “lighting up” may confuse people, one neuroscience professor points out, because they show only the brain’s major activities, not all of them. Yet “those kinds of ideas self-perpetuate,” he says. One possible basis for the 10% notion: The brain has almost 100 billion neurons, which are outnumbered roughly 10:1 by “glial” cells that keep the brain working. “In other words,” the Conversation notes, “neurons are only 10% of our entire brain.” (See how lack of sleep can fry brain cells.)

Personally, I think that if you actual engage the brain….then you do not need a pay per thought, Luminosity…..that using it daily on complex subjects and thoughts will keep it young and make the use of it more probable.

You guys got any thoughts on this?  Remember that requires the use of the beautiful organ.