Another Brain Myth

Song: Patty Griffin's "Rain." Can't remember the last time we got rain here in Tucson. (Update: it rained this weekend!)

In Losing My Religions, I note that we need to kill the myth that we only use 10% of our brain. Here's another:

The Myth of the 25-Year-Old Brain

A powerful idea about human development stormed pop culture and changed how we see one another. It’s mostly bunk.

Lovely photo by my sister.
In front of the cottage where Anne and I spent our first weekend,
plotting our doomed marriage ceremony (as discussed in Losing).