Striking Gold: When does the brain reach maturity?

A shorter summary of the latter parts of An Empirical Introduction to Youth

Myth Hunting

Let’s play a game. Let’s imagine that we’re digging for gold, where gold in this case are urban myths. Well, not ordinary myths exactly. Scientific myths. We probably won’t find gold, but it’s useful to look. And I have an idea where to look: the brain. Gold has been found here before.

Consider the idea that we only use 10% of our brains:

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