Spoiler alert …

In a Nutshell :  NO – it’s a urban myth



Here’s why…

The brain contains around 100 billion neurons, each with about a 1,000 connections and doubtless most of us fail to make full use of this prodigious computational and memory capacity. However, while some parts of the brain are more active than others when performing specific tasks, brain scans show that the whole brain is active, at some level, most of the time.