10% of Our Brains

While watching the movie "Wedding Crashers" this weekend, I heard a quote that god me thinking. Owen Wilson said, "We only use ten percent of our brains". How is this possible. I know that our brain is a very complex thing, and that there are many different dimensions to it, but it doesn't seem possible that we are only using one tenth of it. Then I began brainstorming. What if we were able to maximize that capacity of our brains? How much smarter would even the smartest man in the world become if he was able to use the other nine tenths of his brain? It doesn't seem possible that we could survive in the world with this handicap, but yet humans are "the smartest organisms on the planet". How easily would we be able to solve even the most confusing problems in the world if we were able to use our brains more fully? Could we find cures for cancer, all types of the common cold, AIDS/HIV? I also find it amazing that there hasn't been extensive research conducted on this subject. How can anyone stand having such great knowledge at their disposal but not be able to use it? How much information is stored up there that we can't access. How do we know that there isn't millions of years of history encrypted within the crevices of our cranium? Perhaps it would be worth becoming a brain surgeon to find out. Chalk that one up for possible future occupations.

The Obama Rally

Me and my friend Kyle Oppman volunteered at and attended the Barack Obama rally at Washington High School this past Wednesday. It was amazing to meet the candidate that I had supported for so long. Hearing him speak in person with thousands of people in attendance is a lot different than listening to him speak in a debate against Hillary Clinton. His charisma flowed through the room as he talked passionately about helping the working class, the middle class, and impoverished families that continue to get taxed heavily. He talked about "the fierce urgency of now", while explaining why he had decided to run for president now instead of in four or eight years. He explained that if he thought that the American people could withstand another one or two terms of this current administration, then he would delay his canidacy. But since he felt that if his other two competitors (McCain and Clinton) could not provide the change that the American people needed, he felt he owed it to the citizens of the United States of America to create change within our government. He was a truly great speaker, and I was glad that I was able to be there. His speaking also convinced Kyle to support him, a great achievment considering Kyle's pickiness when it comes to politics. I look forward to the Indiana primary on May 6, and the general elections that Senator Obama will hopefully be participating in on November 4.