The human brain is truly amazing. Here are just a few facts.

The human brain weighs about 3 pounds.

It comprises about 10 trillion brain cells.

Each cell connects to about 100,000 cells near it.

Every second, your brain takes in and stores more information than all the world’s computers put together.

Furthermore, it receives information from :

250,000 temperature sensors
600,000 touch sensors
250,000,000 light receptors, distinguishing between over 1,000, 000 coloursA computer is a plank of wood compared to your brain!

Your mind does more calculations as you drive to work than any computer can handle and your brain goes on thinking about other things while your car is driven almost entirely subconsciously.

While crossing the street, your brain handles and processes more information than every computer on the planet.

Most staggeringly, the most recent estimate of the brain’s potential in terms of the number of connections or thoughts it can set up at any one time is :

1,000,000,000.…..continue this row of zeros for a further 9.8 miles!

This refers not just to people of noted genius like Einstein, Mozart or Stephen Hawking, but to all of us. That means you and I.

Our potential is essentially unlimited, but we simply have no idea how to use this unbelievable computing power.

In normal daily life, we use just a fraction of this capability, less than 0.1% of our true potential.

In the coming days and weeks on this blog, we are going to look at how we can tap into this incredible power and apply it to our daily lives. Exciting stuff, I'm sure you'll agree.