When we are young we spend so much time playing and enjoying our childhood. So are we getting the full learning potential we could get in early ages when our brain is like a metaphoric sponge absorbing information faster then what it would do in our whole life.

I got told that if a child didn't learn to speak then by a certain age the brain decides it doesn't need the language part anymore and the child may not learn to speak at all.

I also have been told that we only use 10% of our brains.

Could it be that we are missing out on something that we could have learned during our childhood?

I looked up child prodigies and on wiki it has a list of them. There seems to be quite a few names on the list so maybe they used a part of their brain when they was much younger which children don't use today? Or maybe they was pushed into working hard and learning by their parents?

Evolution tends to change things we don't use and adapt things we do use. It would be a shame to think that we would take a step back in evolution instead of a step forward.....

Another Random Thought By Lady_Pugwash