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Stepping up your faculties

1. Your brain has an unlimited potential to learn. It absorbs an estimated 7 to 10 new pieces of information every second -­ and can continue to do so for the rest of your life, yet still have plenty of room left to learn more. And each time you have a new experience or learn something, your brain physically grows new inter-neural (brain cell) connections. Your brain is actually so growth-friendly, that this now has a new scientific term -­ “brain plasticity.”

2. Your cortex is wrinkled for a reason. Ever wonder why our grey matter is a mass of "wrinkles?" It's nature's answer to housing huge capacity. You have billions and billions of brain cells packed into your 3-pound brain. If all of your brain cells were laid out end-to-end, they would stretch at least 800,000 kilometers (496,000 miles). This is roughly the distance to the moon and back.

3. Your brain is not limited to your skull. Your intelligence is actually distributed throughout the cells of your body. The body-mind barrier does NOT exist. We are thinking beings on every level. There is even a current scientific theory that our brain is holographic -­ and is duplicated right down to a sub-molecular level. You (all of you) is intelligence in action!

4. You actually have TWO centralized brains. You have more brain cells in your second brain than you do in the portion encased in your skull. Where is that second brain? In your gut. And those two brains are connected by a huge nerve (the Vagus nerve) that carries messages back and forth between those two brains.

5. YOUR brain is as unique as your fingerprint. Of the six billion people currently living, and the ninety billion people who have ever walked the Earth, there has never been a brain quite like yours. YOU are truly unprecedented and totally unique. You are! Think about that!

6. Your brain is capable of unlimited thought patterns. Back in 1968 a student of the great scientist Pavlov shocked the scientific community when his research proved the smallest number of potential thought patterns an average brain can create is the number 1 -- followed by 10.5 million kilometers of typewritten zeros.

7. Intelligence has very little to do with your IQ score. Neuroscientists and neuropsychologists now know that IQ tests only measure very limited “rational and logical” thinking skills. Such skills are in many ways the most limited portion of your intelligence. We now know that there is also your emotional intelligence (EQ), and your all-important higher intelligence (HQ). And many researchers now identify as many as 25 sub-intelligences.

8. You can learn to think like Einstein. Recent research clearly demonstrated that the basic thing that set Einstein’s brain apart was the number of connections between his neurons. This is not a birth condition. Such a densely packed brain is actually created by challenging yourself mentally!
9. You are NOT born smart or dumb. Your intelligence is NOT fixed at birth. A recent in-depth review of more than 200 scientific studies of IQ performed by Bernard Devlin (published in the Nature journal) established that your genes account for only about 48 percent of your IQ. The remaining 52% percent is a function of your prenatal care, environment, and education. And, it should be added, this includes education at any age!

10. Your intelligence can be raised through appropriate training. Although your early upbringing and genetic background may predispose you to have certain natural talents -- many researchers have shown that intelligence scores can be raised significantly through appropriate training.

11. This knowledge has already changed your brain. Now here's a real surprise for you! Just reading this information created immediate synaptic changes in your brain. Now if you actually spend a little time contemplating what this information means to you, you will then immediately strengthen those new neural connections. And the stronger they get, the more easily they will override any old limiting thoughts you may have about your own mental potential!

Intellect's Begins

From the beginning of time the brain have been a structure of utmost amazement to the very existence of man, a phenomenon of never ending exploration. This is about the most delicate structure of the human body encased in the skull yet the most invaluable. This intricate machine is the major component in the advancement of humankind and why man is the 'higher animal'. The Brain is the control center of all activities carried out in man and by man, it is the seat of intelligence. Intelligence is defined in the wikipedia free encyclopedia as an umbrella term used to describe a property of the mind that encompasses many related abilities, such as the capacities to reason, to plan, to solve problems, to think abstractly, to comprehend ideas, to use language, and to learn. There are several ways to define intelligence. In some cases, intelligence may include traits such as creativity, personality, character, knowledge, or wisdom. However, most psychologists prefer not to include these traits in the definition of intelligence.This intricate machine have evolved over time and have commanded evolution of new human behavior.