| You have enough brains to run a galaxy! What are | | | | banter, and silly shows and movies. Anything deep is |
| you doing with it?Neuroscientists have estimated that | | | | considered controversial.You may, of course, argue, |
| the average human brain has 100 billion cells, and that | | | | that William Sidis, had wonderful genes, because both |
| each of these cells is connected to 20,000 other | | | | his parents were brilliant as well; but, the fact remains, |
| ganglia and dendrites. This means that you have more | | | | that even if one cannot be as brilliant as a known |
| brain connections than molecules in the known | | | | genius, your neurology is capable of tremendous feats, |
| universe.If this does not make you gasp, then you may | | | | much more than you have ever known.However, |
| have to question your ability to fog a mirror.Naturally, | | | | when you study the history of known geniuses, you |
| with all this brain-power, you may wonder, as I did, | | | | find for the most part that they became geniuses |
| when I learned these startling facts, is why does even | | | | because of how they were raised. There are some |
| my computer and calculator seem smarter than I | | | | exceptions, but for the most part, they found allies, |
| am?The answer is historical and social conditioning.Yes, | | | | usually intelligent parents or mentors, that sheltered |
| ever since you were little you have been educated to | | | | them from social conditioning about what they were |
| use less than your capacity. In studies of child prodigies, | | | | capable of doing. Thus, they overcame the social |
| it has been found that they were raised in an | | | | forces that compel most people to develop mediocre |
| extraordinary way that went against the prevailing | | | | minds.In other words, the biological equipment is there |
| social norms. They were exposed to sufficient | | | | for anyone to be highly intelligent. It just has never been |
| intellectual stimulus at an early age and subsequently | | | | used much. In many cases, it has been actively |
| performed in a way that was truly remarkable.I'll give | | | | suppressed by negative environmental conditioning.You |
| you an example:Instead of the disciplinary punishment | | | | are much brighter than you think.Imagine what would |
| so common to education, Boris and Sarah Sidis, | | | | happen if you were to start a program of mental |
| believed in nurturing a precocious and fearless love of | | | | cultivation? For example, each day, you can decide to |
| knowledge, into their son William.This was an unusual | | | | be more creative with one aspect of your life.Simply |
| idea in the early 20th century. They received much | | | | by having an intensely desired goal and asking focusing |
| criticism for it. Nevertheless, they persisted.The result | | | | questions, you can resolve most of the problems that |
| of exposing young Sidis to educational information | | | | are bothering you today. Once you start to stimulate |
| when most parents breathe a sigh of relief that their | | | | your mind, it will respond.The reason why all our |
| child can walk and talk was that young Sidis could | | | | problems appear overwhelming and unsolvable is |
| read the New York Times at 18 months, taught himself | | | | because of a massive conspiracy, since the beginning |
| Latin at 2, Greek at 3, wrote four books at 4, and | | | | of recorded history, to suppress intelligence.In the 20th |
| knew Ten languages (English, Latin, Greek, Russian, | | | | century, we have invented more things than the entire |
| Hebrew, French, German, Turkish, Armenian and | | | | history of the human race. How? It is because as a |
| Vendergood, his own invention) by age eight. And this | | | | species, we have allowed more intelligent people to |
| was just the beginning. By the age of 11, William Sidis | | | | have a say in what is going on in the world. The |
| mastered higher mathematics and planetary | | | | industrial revolution created a demand for more brain |
| revolutions, became youngest student to ever enroll at | | | | power and a small minority of people |
| Harvard, and lectured Harvard Mathematical club on | | | | responded.Imagine what would happen in a world |
| "Four-Dimensional Bodies.' He graduated from Harvard, | | | | where everyone was allowed to be much more |
| cum laude, on June 24, 1914, at age 16. And two years | | | | intelligent? We would be building cities under the ocean |
| later, entered Harvard Law School in 1916.Now with | | | | and colonizing space and resolving those bewildering |
| this impressive start in life, you would expect that he | | | | problems that are threatening to destroy our species |
| lived a happy and productive life.Actually, he went into | | | | altogether.Now, sadly, nobody is going to give you |
| obscurity, took on low paying employment, lived in | | | | permission to be as bright, capable, and effective as |
| horrible poverty, and even went to great efforts to | | | | you want to be. You must cease it for yourself.You |
| hide his intelligence.The reason: tremendous public | | | | can start today by just deciding to clearly outline your |
| disapproval. He was considered a freak, and | | | | goals and purpose in life and begin a deliberate |
| constantly tormented by his peers.Contrary to what | | | | campaign to find out how you can resolve your most |
| you may have believed, intelligence is not popular, and | | | | pressing problems.Once you start to tap your |
| this is why most people have learned how to dumb | | | | tremendous neurological capabilities through a |
| down their own.Thus, it is not nature that has deprived | | | | conscientious effort, who knows what you are |
| us of expressing our own natural brilliance, but history | | | | capable of being, doing, and having from life.When |
| and society.We have been brought up to believe that | | | | there is enough desire, you can do anything. |
| we are not that bright. And this belief is a historical | | | | If you're looking for abundance, it's right inside your |
| legacy, because high intelligence has never been very | | | | head. Nature has given you more raw intellectual |
| popular. A highly intelligent population is not the ideal of | | | | capacity than you could ever use in a single lifetime. |
| religious and political forces, and since the beginning of | | | | Imagine what would happen if you were to tap into |
| recorded history, human intelligence has been | | | | even a sliver more than you have been using to this |
| suppressed.Today, with our tremendous explosion of | | | | date. Your world would literally explode with exciting |
| knowledge, we are finding it increasingly necessary to | | | | possibilities.And as Mahatma Gandhi once said, "You |
| open our minds to our mental potential. Although, of | | | | must be the change you want to see in the |
| course, the same compressive social forces are still | | | | world."Saleem Rana would love to share his inspiring |
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| another example. Take radio and television. These two | | | | pass this |
| mediums are capable of giving every listener or | | | | article on to your friends, or use it in your ezine or |
| viewer a first class university education. But what are | | | | newsletter. It's a shareware article. |
| they used to do? Negative news footage, social | | | | |