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"We only use ten percent of our brains."
People genuinely believe this and never learned where it came from.
That and the "Alpha Male" garbage. Even the author of the study on wolves has said repeatedly that his study was totally wrong. And yet some people continue to reference it and apply it to humans when even the original study wasn't about people.
People love excuses for bad behavior, no need to verify them. Sigh.
I think that one is finally starting to die off, aside from the last gasps of a man in prison. It takes a while for real science to filter through to common knowledge, and I'm constantly seeing the corrections about wolves and alpha status as flawed thinking.
I think it also got tied into the incel movement and became a toxic phrase. Even if you didn't know the actual science, would you want to call yourself an "alpha male" if it made people think you were an incel?
Limitless was fun though.
Lucy was not, though.
Why not? I found it enjoyable
As did I. It was mindless fun.
I mean, sure, it makes a fun movie. But when people take it seriously, it stops being fun.
Who tf takes movies seriously? That missing the entire point.
Ooh! Isn’t that the one where the guy becomes limitless?
I'm pretty sure "DM does GB" means something slightly sexual.
I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.
A profound twist on a worn out wrong fact.
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Where did the myth come from?
It came from early on in studying the brain. A scientist said that we only understand what 10 percent of the brain does, and everyone ran with a misunderstanding of that idea.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains here. https://youtube.com/shorts/E4EjYfUBEvw?si=LO3GIURgZesHjo85
Sidenote, why does everyone hate Neil these days?
He thinks he's so smart about everything and there's always this condescending tone.
Like no shit Neil?
Piling on...
Oh god I forgot about that one lol.
Piling on, he totally misses the arguments and ideas being put forward by the interviewer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9Xv7pHG_4
Piling on
https://youtu.be/sIJVopJe9F4
Okay well this is just trying to be funny. Did giggle a bit on the first one
The last one is perfection. We have !fuckcars@lemmy.world, maybe we can get a !fuck_sports somewhere?
I thought it was something about how much is active at any given time, but it doesn't look like it's that either.
It might be straight pulled out of thin air.
I understood it as "conscious thought". Subconsciously your brain is still sending and receiving tons of information and signals to move muscles like pumping your heart or contracting your diaphragm.
I mean, it's true for the people that use that phrase.
Often times, yes!
That's only true for Elon musk. He maybe even use less.
He uses more than 10%, but not of brain.
Ha ha yeah and we only use 10% of our muscles luckily :-D
I once read a documentary of what happens when someone uses 100%. It's called My Hero Academia.
The technical description of that feat is called Plus Ultra.
I think there’s a variety of Gillette disposable razors called Plus Ultra