Mindless Ideas

You may have heard from someone that we only use 1% or 10% (or whatever it is this month) of our brain. This is a completely wild suggestion since we use different parts of the brain for different things. No studies seem to confirm this either which for people who believe this statistic may help you change you mind about the many things you will hear. Countless websites say they will give you photographic or eidetic memory and will try to convince you to part with money on an e-book with the 'proven' techniques inside. There is no clear definition of what photographic memory might mean or what you can do with it. People who claim to see a perfectly reproduced image in their mind tend to loose that image after a while. Others who were able to remember the image after a while actually used mnemonic techniques to remember parts of the image without needing to 'see' it in their mind. 

It is possible to suggest that we are all born with some sort of visual memory, otherwise we wouldn't remember what things look like. Perhaps we don't use this section of our mind in a way which would allow us to use it more effectively? The moral here is be aware about what you read on these subjects, the memory techniques that really work will be freely available on the Internet and the same ones used by modern memory experts.