“You’re not supposed to suddenly be using 100% of your brain. If you did, you’d explode, and it would be stupid, not brilliant. That’s the first thing. The second thing is that it doesn’t matter what ‘percentage’ you use (my god you human beings are stupid about the proper meanings of quantification). What matters is the elegance, efficiency, creativity and effectiveness with which you discover, develop, and enact the assets that comprise your potentials. The third thing is that 99% of your intelligence doesn’t look like what you usually do consciously. In fact, were you to get a clear glimpse of it, you might go mad. What you do consciously is probably 2-7% of your mind’s activity. This is -not- the intelligent percentage. This is -the formalized cognitive prosthesis- of the -hidden percentage-. Do -not- put this in the driver’s role, except when it is properly immersed in and instructed by the invisible 99% of the mind’s common activity and accessible assets.”

— an a i