With The Stress Of The Pandemic, Are We Reaching Brain Capacity?

Remember learning humans only use 10% of our brains? That’s 100% false.

Our brains are constantly active — reasoning, planning, sensing — and it turns out, our brains do have limits.

In fact, author Annie Murphy Paul argues our brains may have reached their limits. Regardless of age, humans are simply processing a lot of information these days. But there are ways we can use our bodies to help strengthen our minds’ ability to hold information.

In her new book, “The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain,” Murphy Paul writes that people have been putting more demand on their brains for a long time.

“Everyday life started to become more cognitively challenging” at the beginning of the 20th century, she says. At this point, people’s daily lives started to involve more