English essay!

This documental is really interesting, even though I didn´t pay much attention, we can learn lot of things about our brain, how to get advantages of it and of course, how can we reach our goals and success in life.
At the beginning, the documental starts such a conference given by a X professor relating the many different things we experience in life, how can we use our minds to create as much things as we can, etc.
Among other things, he talked about physics and I believe the more representative figure in the history of this science, Albert Einstein. As we know, Einstein (Germany) is known all over the world, but in his beginnings he wasn´t the best student in school, he was kind of lazy, but he really knew he was better student than anyone because of his intellectual abilities, maybe he was not just interested in the subjects he received at school, or maybe he didn´t just know how to use his brain at the beginning, but I believe the years passed and he just learned by himself and really took advantage of it because scientifics said he used more than the half part of his brain, it means he used more than anyone else has ever used!! We can say this is truth because of the many technological and scientific discoveries that nowadays we still use.
When discussing this topic, the teacher emphasized the intellectual skills thatEinstein had and how he used the same for success, obviously success is and was not only about skills, brain also plays an important role because as I said at the beginning, we can create as much things as we can, so I´m really sure this was the key for Einstein´s success.
The brain retains pretty much all information of what it sees and hears. The human brain is the center of the human nervous system and is a highly complex organ.
The human brain is unique. It gives us the power to think, plan, speak, imagine... It is truly an amazing organ.
The brain performs an incredible number of tasks:
· ­It controls body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing.
· It accepts a flood of information about the world around you from your various senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, etc).
· It handles physical motion when walking, talking, standing or sitting.
· It lets you think, dream, reason and experience emotions.

The brain is the source of all our behavior, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. We have known for a long time that different areas of the brain are used for different activities - memory, language, problem-solving, and so on
For most of the history of brain research, until about 20 years ago, our information about the human brain was obtained primarily from post-mortem cases. This is information from people who have died, and whose brains are studied after being fixed in solutions to preserve them. But in the past few years, new ways of looking at the brain safely in living persons have become possible, so now we are better able to link the abilities of a particular person with his or her brain structure.
Our problem-solving abilities depend mainly on a part of the brain called the cerebrum. The cerebrum is divided into two parts called the left and right cerebral hemispheres. These hemispheres don't have exactly the same functions, and this difference in the way the two hemispheres work is called functional asymmetry.
The left hemisphere is important for all forms of communication. We know this because when it is damaged, perhaps as a result of an accident, there can be serious problems in speaking.
The right hemisphere, by comparison, doesn't appear to be involved much in communication, although it can help us understand words to some extent. Instead, it specializes in receiving and analyzing information from the outside world. Some parts of the right hemisphere are mainly concerned with helping us understand what we hear (auditory), while other parts help us make sense of things that we see.
The temporal lobe (in the lower part of the hemisphere) analyses much of the auditory input, while the occipital and parietal lobes (in the rear and upper regions) provide information about where objects are. The frontal lobes in each hemisphere seem to be important in planning our actions.
An interesting fact about the talk was that in a study billed as an exploration into the realm of “consciousness,” researchers claim to have found brain cells that become very busy only when something is consciously noticed.
In humans, the brain constitutes, on average, just 2 percent of total body weight but consumes 20 percent of the energy used during quiet waking, so these savings have considerable adaptive significance.