Water in the Brain - WEEK 45
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Have you ever thought your just not clever enough
You know not clever enough to operate at “that level” or achieve that goal
Perhaps you came to that conclusion following comments made by someone you respect?
Well here some evidence pointed out to me by Lee Pulos, that suggests that we all have the brain power we need, if we choose to use it.
British Neurologist Dr John Lama studied people with hydrocephalus
Hydrocephalus is sometimes known as "water in the brain". Basically it’s when cerebrospinal fluid fills the cavities of the brain, which can result in less brain cortex forming.
John was studying whether people needed a certain amount of brain (cortex) to be intelligent. On average people have a brain cortex which is about 4.5cm thick, and typically in the US and UK an average IQ is quoted as a score of 100.
During John’s study he came across an extreme case of hydrocephalus.
It was a college mathematic student who only had a 1mm layer of brain cortex, the rest of his head was filled with cerebrospinal fluid
But when John tested his IQ, he had an IQ of 126.
That’s an IQ in the top 5% of the population with only 2% of the normal brain mass.
But this isn’t a unique story Dr Peter Noise an American neurologist reported similar findings of 5 people with hydrocephalus recording high IQ’s, and the picture above was a 44-year old French man who was married with 2 kids working as a civil servant. In fact there are numerous stories on the web and within medical journals pointing to other case of high achieving people with extreme hydrocephalus, i.e. significantly less brain than you and me.
So if your think that you just don’t have the brain power required, maybe it's not that you don’t have it, its that your not using it
Till next week use your head
David Gardner
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THE MUST HAVE
"THE ACHIEVERS EDGE"
By Peter Thompson
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The Road is better than the Inn
Can't See the Wood for the Trees
Bluebird - A pint of Ale & water speed record
Visualising an Argument with Alien Bowling
Old Friends lead to New Thoughts
Space Shuttle designed on a horses backside
The Mexican Boatman & "Harvard MBA".
3 Blind Men & An Elephant
Someone Everyone Anyone
No-one
12 Questions to
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The Bee Can't Fly but No-one told the
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The Maverick Mindset of
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Three Men and a Boat
Stop
Two Cannibals & a Beautiful Girl
The Meaning of Life
What was your name again?
Two Frogs
Is Common Sense Possible
An Architects Vision
Does Edison Turn Your Light On
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