To get an idea of how powerful your brain is, imagine every single person on earth, all 7 billion-ish of us, with a hand calculator performing a calculation every five seconds for sixty hours.
Okay, got your head around that?
The world’s most powerful computers, called supercomputers, can perform the same amount of calculations in just one second. That’s an accomplishment that blows our minds, until we realise that it would take three of these supercomputers linked together to map the connections to just one single neuronet firing in the human brain!
And a piece of brain the size of a grain of salt contains approximately one hundred thousand neurons with a billion connections to other neurons. That is a lot of processing power!
The total number of permutations and combinations of brain connections, and hence potential, is almost infinite. As leading brain researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr Andrew Newburg says,
“We have astonishing potential to change the autopilot behaviours and patterns we have fallen into. Using the right tools and intentions, the potential for change within our nervous system, within our entire physiology is tremendous.”
