Brain Research
The human brain - what an achievement!
Everything that LIVE COMPETENCE® undertakes is always based on sound scientific knowledge. Apart from being very involved with research regarding flocks of birds and humanistic psychology, we also devote a great deal of our time to the results of the latest brain research.
Apart from everything else, the question:
"How can these findings be converted into facts that can be implemented on a human-economic level?" fascinates us again and again. This is the reason why we are in contact with numerous researchers and university luminaries worldwide and cooperate with them as much as possible.
What is the connection between brains and success, perception and behaviour or leadership qualities and ethics?
LIVE COMPETENCE® will inspire you with the latest results and sound facts about these fascinating subjects.
We will demonstrate how to integrate and successfully use the benefits of this information in your normal business routine as well as in your private life.
Here are some facts and figures about our brains: it is made up of
- 100 billion nerve cells,
- 80 per cent water,
- 1,345 cc volume
- and approximately 1.4 kilos weight.
This organ consumes about 20 watts in its different areas and thus uses less energy than the light in your refrigerator.
It obtains its fuel from glucose and oxygen. The brain uses at least 17 per cent of the body's total energy and is a "high performance mainframe made out of water".
It takes care of all of the cells and functions in the body and never sleeps! The brain is nevertheless the most underrated part of the body.
It is in effect your command centre and can do anything you think you can do. This happens through electromagnetic impulses which are called thoughts. Our nerve cells, also called neurons, are responsible for receiving sensations as well as transferring and processing nerve impulses.
The total number of human nerve cells has to be seen to be believed: There are about 1,000,000,000,000 (10 12), that is a billion; and every single one of them forms 1,000 connections with other neurons.
Neuronal connections can execute 200 operations per second which represents a maximum computer power of up to 10 teraflops (this corresponds to the amount of data that can be seen within one single second in more than 2,100 DVD cinema films which are running simultaneously!)
The memory capacity of the human brain is just as inconceivably high as its computing power. It is estimated to be one to four petabytes (1 petabyte is 1,024 terabytes and about 1 million gigabytes). Even if you lived to be several hundred years old, it could theoretically remember every single one of the eleven million unfiltered sensory perceptions which rain down on it per second.
Burned onto CD-ROM disks and stacked up, these four petabytes would produce a tower of about 6.8 million CDs and reach a height of over 16 kilometres - almost twice as high as Mount Everest.
CONCLUSION: Nobody should really seriously claim that he or she is incapable of being successful! :-)
