Albert Einstein already drew our attention to the fact that humans only use 10% of their actual mental capacity. This raises the question of what one has achieved in life and what one could have achieved if one had used 100% of one’s brain capacity (mental potential)?

Let’s find out by asking ourselves this question:

“What do I really know about how my mind works and the consequences of my thinking?”

This does not mean professional knowledge, which is often somewhat abstract and has only limited practical use in everyday life. Rather, it is about practically applicable knowledge that is useful in everyday life or even provides advantages.

You can see exactly what is meant by this if you ask yourself a few questions and are absolutely honest with yourself:

“Do I know what beliefs are and how I can programme and replace them at will?”

“Do I know how my thoughts control my perception of reality?”

“Do I know how my thoughts affect the cells of my body?”

“Do I know what the difference between conscious and subconscious thought is?”

“Do I know what the difference between emotions and feelings is, and how the two are created?”

It may be an uncomfortable self-knowledge if you cannot answer these questions with an unequivocal “yes”, because it means that you are using something of which you do not completely know how it works:

Your mind!

The instance with which all knowledge (information) is processed, which influences all decisions and which practically determines your complete life. However, it goes further than that, because the influence of the mind may be greater than one suspects. The questions asked earlier give a small hint.

Apart from an infinity of abilities, such as the ability to speak a language or remember where your car keys are, the mind still controls some very relevant abilities, such as conscious perception of reality.

This may sound a little abstract at the moment, but it will quickly change when you realise the following:

Every second, about 15 million bits of information come crashing down on us. This corresponds to 150 fully written A4 pages and represents the volume that the subconscious takes in via our senses per second. However, of these 15 million bits, only about 60 bits arrive in conscious perception. This means that conscious perception consists of 0.0004 % of what one actually perceives!

Conversely, this means: you do not consciously perceive over 99% of reality, i.e. you are missing more than 99% of information. In addition, consider the following fact: if over 99% of perception is filtered out, there must be an authority that determines what is perceived and what is not.

This instance is selective perception, and it is one of our natural abilities to programme it at will. However, one can only use this ability consciously if one actually uses 100% of the mind (mental potential).

There has never been a time when so much knowledge about human beings existed and this knowledge was also easily accessible to all people. One has to ask oneself how it is possible that we humans often know more about the programming of our smartphones than about the programming of our minds?

The problem is that our entire education system and society mostly just tells us what to think. What is rarely explained to us, however, is how thinking actually works, so that we can then use it the way we want!

“EVEN IF YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT CARSTO THE SMALLEST DETAIL

THAT DOESN’T QUALIFY YOU TO DRIVE IT YET!”

“YOU MUST FIRST LEARN HOW!”

However, how we can effectively put this flood of knowledge into practice in our everyday lives is unfortunately not always explained to us, and the following analogy is intended to give a little insight into the mechanics behind this:

A computer consists of 3 essential components: Hardware, operating system and software. The operating system is installed on the hardware and the software runs on this operating system.

If one of these components does not function at 100 %, the computer cannot function at 100 %. The actual potential of the computer cannot unfold. Therefore, it cannot be used.

This leads to a logical conclusion: the best software becomes useless if it is installed on an operating system that, for example, only provides 50% of its actual performance because it is incorrectly programmed, outdated, or possibly even contains viruses.

Let’s transfer this principle to the human being, because, viewed in a simplified way, the human being also consists of 3 components: Hardware, operating system and software.

The hardware is the body, the operating system is the mind, and the software is knowledge.

(Knowledge, especially in the context presented here, means among other things: Knowledge of sales techniques, motivation methods, methods of personality development, rhetoric and communication, technical and product knowledge etc.).

If one of these components does not function at 100 % or does not perform at 100 % of its actual capacity, the individual cannot develop their full potential.

Therefore, the same logical conclusion applies: the best knowledge becomes useless if it is installed on a mind that only yields 10% of its actual capacity because it is incorrectly programmed or even contains viruses.

Viruses can be fears, worries, doubts or lack of (self-)confidence.

It is not knowledge that determines what one perceives, how one feels, how efficient or resistant one is. It is the ability to implement knowledge, to use it efficiently.

This ability, however, depends directly on the capacity of the mind, or to what extent one is able to use the mind.

10 % use of mind means 10 % performance or degree of knowledge use.

100 % use of mind means 100 % performance or degree of knowledge use.