What percentage of our brain do we use?
The popularly and widely spread belief that we only use or have access to 10 percent of our brain's power is often used to speculate about the extent of human abilities if only we could utilize our brain's full capacity.
In reality, this claim is 100 percent myth. We use all of our brain.
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