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title: "How Much Percent of Brain We Use?"  
description: "How Much Percent of Brain We Use?"  
author: "Darshit Khatri"  
published: 2018-03-26  
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# How Much Percent of Brain We Use?

How Much Percent of [Brain](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300727/how-mental-illness-can-affect-the-brain) We Use?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

## "10%"

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As per some reports and researchers, it is said that humans use only 10% of their brains. **William James who is a professor in the Harvard University says that an average man develops only 10 percent of their mental ability.** Well, there are other scientists too who are against this fact and don’t believe it by saying that it’s just a misconception.

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**However most of the facts and reports and studies which are been done on the Human brain it was found that humans only have access to 10% of their brain.** Well, still it is considered as a myth which is spread among folks as **there are several Neurologists who say that brain is divided into different segments and each of them works actively.** \
I don’t know if you have watched the **movie** **the Lucy** or not but if you haven’t I will recommend you to watch it. Lucy was a scientifically rich and a [**mind-bending movie**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31156/which-are-the-best-mind-bending-films) in which the lead character's brain starts working more than 10% as after her body get inserted with drugs.\
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**Lucy after the drug insertion in her body gains extraordinary godlike abilities and surpasses the 10 percent** though the film suggests that 10 percent represents brain capacity at a particular time rather than permanent usage.


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