The 10% statistic is bogus. You, in fact, use almost all of your brain, almost all of the time. Depending on what you’re doing, your brain might not be working very hard, but it will be working. If I perform an fMRI on you while you lie there and do nothing, your entire brain will still light up*. If I put you through a sensory deprivation protocol for long enough, you will actually start to hallucinate, because your brain craves input and activity.
I can’t decide if this is more or less terrifying than when I occasionally freak myself out realizing that I’m nearly a decade older than incoming college freshmen. A DECADE. THE EIGHTIES DID NOT EXIST FOR THESE PEOPLE.
When I was in high school and still had the metabolism of a hummingbird, I would occasionally eat an entire pint of Ben & Jerry’s in one sitting. And then go have dinner.
I have chowed down happily on Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Phish Food, and many others. My current favorite is Half Baked. Whoever thought to put brownie chunks AND cookie dough chunks into the same ice cream is a genius. I am eating a half-cup of it as we speak (and then I will have dinner).
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