HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR BRAIN CAPACITY

Our brain is unique. It is unarguably the greatest difference that separates us from other primates and beasts; it is the seat of our judgement, decision and imagination. It has allowed us invent the wheel, create levers, build pyramids, land on the moon and even begin to search other worlds beyond Earth. In fact, scientists sometimes refer to the human brain as the “crowning achievement of evolution”.

But what, exactly, makes our brain so special? 

Scientists have established that we humans possess cognitive abilities very different from other creatures, thanks to a number of unusual features of our brains. This means that we are capable of learning, understanding, processing, recalling, imagining, and instructing a great variety of information which most other animals cannot do. We are also able to communicate with each other through speaking and writing and in a variety of languages which other animals cannot do. It is a great advantage. And the good news there is this; you and I possess this greatest machine of nature for free! It now depends on us how we use it to its best capacity.

I have noticed one very big mistake that many of us keep making; we tend to use most of our brain capacity as a Storage Device, instead of using it as a Processing (Thinking) Device. A Storage Device collects data, and that is what it only does. The data can then sit there for years, gathering dusts and after a while begin to decay, and with the device, they become obsolete. Meanwhile, a Processing Device collects data as inputs, refines those data gotten and then churns them out in refined forms which could be acted upon as actions. And it does that over and over again for a very long time.

Your brain is designed by the Creator to work as a Giant Data Processor, not for you to be overloading it with necessary and unnecessary information like you do your Memory Card, which is basically a Storage Device.

Then you may ask, “How can I then start using my brain as a Processing Device?”

The first step is for you to see the unlimited power in the writing down of ideas, impression and information on paper, typing it on your notepad or anything capable of storing that information at the time your brain brings them. Your brain is ever at work. And whether you know it or not, it keeps processing information; even in your subconscious. You basically own the biggest processor in the universe that barely sleeps, you are to become the ever present Secretary for your brain; always writing whatever output it gives you down. This is the first step to ingenuity.

Many great men and women, geniuses as we know them, were not necessarily smarter than most of us, they only came to an understanding of how to maximize their brain capacity more than the rest of us. They freed their brain from holding down unnecessary information, and they allowed it to think, meditate, wonder, imagine, roam and see clearly the invisibles concerning tasks at hand. And from the feedback they got, they wrote every data their brain gave them down, consistently. That is one of the great secrets of the geniuses. No wonder every one of them is known for keeping secret/open personal dairy and journals that they wrote all their ideas in. They knew the brain is always “PROCESSING” ideas; they just let it do the work. Then, they wait.

Imagine if Sir Isaac Newton had tried to memorize that mathematical equation that came to him when he saw the Apple drop from the tree, thinking he could store it in his brain for a week and then he later forgot it. I am sure the famous (F = mg) which literally revolutionized Physics and kick-started Mechanical Engineering would have been lost for that generation. Even the great Greek Scientist, Archimedes had to quickly pen down the idea of Lever that came to him after shouting “Eureka!” These men knew the secret of the universe that many of us have refused to acknowledge for so long; the power of allowing the brain to think with the power of writing those ideas down for safe keeping.

In short, many people are still struggling now, not as a result of them not knowing what to do. But the sad news is that, when their greatest breakthrough came in form of ideas, they tried to store it in their brain instead of writing it down for safekeeping and further deliberation. I hope you will not be like them. I hope as you are reading this, you will begin to make a change.

In conclusion, I want to use the words of Leonardo Da Vinci as an advice to you, 

“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.” 

Please, write those good ideas that come to your head down as soon as you can. Do not procrastinate. Your ever sharp efficient brain is always bringing them. 

WRITE THEM DOWN!