“Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind
pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you.
Think of things not as they are but as they may be.
Don’t merely dream but create!”
Robert Collier
Tony Buzan is a brain expert. He is the past president of the Mensa
Society, an organization only open to people who score in the top 2%
on standardized I.Q. tests, and an author of several books on
creativity, learning and intelligence. According to him, and to many
other authorities in the field, the mental potential of the average
person is largely untapped and virtually unlimited.
Your neocortex, your thinking brain, has approximately 100 billion
cells or neurons. Each of these cells bristles, like a porcupine, with as
many as 20,000 ganglia or fibers that connect it to other brain cells.
Each of these cells is, in turn, connected and interconnected to
thousands and millions of other cells, like an electric grid that lights
up and powers a large city. Each of these cells, and each connection
between these cells, contains an element of mental energy or
information that is available to every other cell. This means that the
complexity of your brain is therefore beyond belief or imagination.
According to Tony Buzan, and other brain experts, the number of
combinations and permutations of brain connections you have isgreater than the number of molecules in the known universe. It
would be the equivalent of the number one followed by eight pages
of zeros, row after row and page after page.
Enormous Reserve Capacity
As mentioned earlier, the average person uses about 1% or 2% of their
brain capacity for 100% of their functioning in life and work. The rest is
“reserve capacity” that is seldom tapped into or used for any reason.
Most people “go to their graves with their music still in them.”
You do not need to achieve a miracle to bring about spectacular results
in your life. You only need to use a little bit more of your existing
brainpower than you are using today. This small improvement in your
thinking ability can change your life so profoundly that both you and
others will be astonished by what you accomplish in the months and
years ahead.
According to research conducted by Professor Sergei Yeframov in
Russia some years ago, he concluded that if you could use just 50% of
your existing mental capacity, you could complete the Ph.D.
requirements of a dozen universities, learn a dozen languages with ease
and memorize the entire 22 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
If you are currently using only 2% of your mental potential, and you
could increase that to 4%, you could double your income, shoot ahead in your profession, rise to the top of your field and transform
your life. If you could use 5% or 6% or 7% of your potential, you
would begin performing at a level that would amaze yourself and
everyone around you. It was estimated that even Albert Einstein
never used more than 10% to 15% of his mental potential at the
height of his powers, and he was considered to one of the greatest
geniuses who ever lived.
Conclusion
The good news is that creativity is a natural and normal ability,
possessed in quantity by virtually everyone. It is inborn, a part of
your genetic structure, a faculty that is uniquely human. Everyone is
creative. Fully 95% of the population has the ability to function at
exceptional, if not genius levels, given the right situation and
circumstances.
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