No more excuses for laziness or apathy

When I was listening to the Carlin interview with James Burke, I heard a great line from Burke - regarding human potential - “Every healthy human being has about the same number of neurons in the skull - about 100 billion. Each one of them has up to 50,000 connecting dendrites, each of which can be in contact with other connecting dendrites up to the same number, which means that inside the brain a thought can go any one of a number of routes which are larger than the number of atoms in the known universe!” I’m going to remind my students of that when they are lazy or apathetic. They owe it to that amazing mechanism inside their skulls to get those dendrites connecting and to get those original thoughts generated.