Does YOUR brain use only 10% of it's capacity?

Though an alluring idea, the "10 percent myth" is so wrong that it is almost laughable.

"It turns out though, that we use virtually every part of the brain, and that [most of] the brain is active almost all the time. Basically the brain represents three percent of the body's weight and uses 20 percent of the body's energy."

Take the simple act of pouring coffee in the morning: In walking toward the coffeepot, reaching for it, pouring the brew into the mug, even leaving extra room for cream, the occipital and parietal lobes, motor sensory and sensory motor cortices, basal ganglia, cerebellum and frontal lobes all activate. A lightning storm of neuronal activity occurs almost across the entire brain in the time span of a few seconds.

i knew that it couldn't be true.

suck on THAT.