Hello fellow time wasters, today I want to ask you a major question.
If we look at talented people, especially the ones who "made" our history, it's no secret that they were different.
Napoleon Bonoparte could read up to 2000 symbols a minute, around 10 times more then an average person.
His enemy, Kutuzov, leader of Russian army at the time, could sleep 5-15 minutes when he had a break and be always full of energy.
A great examle is Hitler, having the power to be an architect, an artist, a master of speech and a dictator at the same time.
The simple thing that explains their "super powers" seems to be brain activity. We only use a few percents of our brains power, but these people used a little more.
The question is - is it possible to exercise your brain? I mean, I tried learning a lot of things at the same time, or just one thing, and I just can't keep it up. At first I am full of courage, but when it passes I can't focus, I can't just keep on doing that thing I need. After some tiem of activity I suddenly become super unproductive, loose any motivation. I end up starting at my computers screen for no reason doing nothing useful.
Lately I am trying to learn to draw. This is my second attempt on it. And now half a year passed since I started, I learned some things, but could have learned ten times more if I could draw more often. But I just can't force it.
Not saying I want to become a dictator or anything, I just want to be a little better. Is that possible? What might help? Learning languages, handwriting, reading?
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth[/url]
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This site says you can, try it out, see if you can fee la difference. [url]http://www.lumosity.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;39205416][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth[/url][/QUOTE]
I was just about to link that actually.
Either way, it hasn't been proven that we only use a portion of our brains. Regarding the sleep thing, I remember there being a guide floating around somewhere that claims you can run on only two hours of sleep (over a 24 hour period). This is assuming that you sleep 4 times over the 24 hour period.
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;39205416][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth[/url]
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This site says you can, try it out, see if you can fee la difference. [url]http://www.lumosity.com/[/url][/QUOTE]
If so, is there a way to increase my overall activity or not?
Think about something. Your brain will throttle itself depending on the load, from 2-5% at idle to 100% when you're thinking as hard as you can.
As already linked the "We only use 10%" myth is bullshit.
I get that it's a myth. Never knew, kinda good to find out. But the question remains. Can the brain be exercised?
...Uhhh....yes....you think about shit. You use it. It's just like a muscle, if you use it it works better if you ignore it it doesn't really do much at all.
One word: Mentats
pretty sure that even if we only conciously use 10% of our brains, the rest is going towards bodily functions and whatnot.
Not browsing facepunch increases it by 100%
I heard if you stick your head in a microwave you can increase your activity.
From my understanding, your diet has to do with it too. Not balancing the right kind of nutrition can kind of "fog up" your head and hinders learning somewhat. Not saying that eating carrots will make you a genius but it does make a difference.
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this may or may not be common knowledge don't hit me
[QUOTE=Hardpoint Nomad;39205991]I heard if you stick your head in a microwave you can increase your activity.[/QUOTE]
My cousin did it and now he works at NASA.
[QUOTE=Amaurus;39205444]I was just about to link that actually.
Either way, it hasn't been proven that we only use a portion of our brains. Regarding the sleep thing, I remember there being a guide floating around somewhere that claims you can run on only two hours of sleep (over a 24 hour period). This is assuming that you sleep 4 times over the 24 hour period.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep[/url]
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I heard about these turtles that were exposed to radioactive materials which experienced intense growth spurts and a stark increase in mental capacity.
[QUOTE=BrownTown;39206137]I heard about these turtles that were exposed to radioactive materials which experienced intense growth spurts and a stark increase in mental capacity.[/QUOTE]i also heard they took up martial arts and trained under a giant talking rat
The only way to increase brain activity is through amphetamines. That won't necessarily make you smarter though.
Snort three grams of pure ginseng.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;39205301]Hello fellow time wasters, today I want to ask you a major question.
If we look at talented people, especially the ones who "made" our history, it's no secret that they were different.
Napoleon Bonoparte could read up to 2000 symbols a minute, around 10 times more then an average person.
His enemy, Kutuzov, leader of Russian army at the time, could sleep 5-15 minutes when he had a break and be always full of energy.
A great examle is Hitler, having the power to be an architect, an artist, a master of speech and a dictator at the same time.
The simple thing that explains their "super powers" seems to be brain activity. We only use a few percents of our brains power, but these people used a little more.
The question is - is it possible to exercise your brain? I mean, I tried learning a lot of things at the same time, or just one thing, and I just can't keep it up. At first I am full of courage, but when it passes I can't focus, I can't just keep on doing that thing I need. After some tiem of activity I suddenly become super unproductive, loose any motivation. I end up starting at my computers screen for no reason doing nothing useful.
Lately I am trying to learn to draw. This is my second attempt on it. And now half a year passed since I started, I learned some things, but could have learned ten times more if I could draw more often. But I just can't force it.
Not saying I want to become a dictator or anything, I just want to be a little better. Is that possible? What might help? Learning languages, handwriting, reading?[/QUOTE]
I think they all just loved amphetamines
Just being on the internet skimming through posts makes your frontal lobe very, very active.
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