What percentage of the brain does a genius use?

Answer 1

The notion that we only use some fraction of our brain is based on an oversimplification of an outdated understanding of how the brain actually works (in other words, it's wrong). It may be true that at any given time only a small fraction of your neurons are firing, but that's more because you don't often have a need for the neurons that govern, say, remembering exactly what benzaldehyde smells like (cherries, if you're interested).

There's no reason to think that geniuses use a "higher percentage" of their brains than anyone else.... they just do it better, somehow, and we really don't understand exactly how.

There is no secret, chemical or morphological, behind a genius using his brain more effectively and successfully than many others. He simply keeps his neurons free of other electrical and chemical impulses, impurities, disturbances, disruptions, cross-currents and short-circuits such as those caused by sudden or continuing erruptions of anger, hate, lust and so on. The ancient Indian philosophers have defined this state of the resultant chemical and electrical special balance as Cleanliness Of Conscience or Kundtalini. Where many people are prone to diverge in their thoughts, emotions and feelings, they are clear-conscious enough to make them converge, thereby reducing the need for using more neurons. Anyway complex thoughts result in the formation of more chemical combinations and more intense and intricate electrical discharges. The projecting of the fore head frontwards in the cource of evolution increased the internal volume of the skull by which more quantity of brain could it contain, which has been critical in the emergence of intellect in man. The erection of the backbone unlike in animals also has been a critical factor. When the backbone remained horizontal to the axis of the Earth, all the excess energy produced was being arrested and pulled down to earth by the gravitational force. But once it became erect, it was freed from the magnetic pull of the earth and all excess and unused energy went straight to the brain and it developed. It is not strange that a sitting sleeper is more conscious and alert than a lying sleeper. When compared to animals, all men are geniuses once they get rid of all rubbish in their brain and do not overcrowd it.

Answer 2

There is no specific percentage of the brain that geniuses use. The idea that we only use 10% of our brain is a myth. Geniuses may show higher levels of activity in certain areas of the brain related to creativity, problem-solving, or memory, but they utilize their entire brain just like everyone else.