How Fast Do You Drive Your Lamborghini

The clip above is a test of a Lamborghini Aventador, and the reviewer hits 200 mph on a two mile long runway.  Then the professional driver gets in and pushes it a bit higher.  So... how fast do you drive your Lamborghini?

Most of you are thinking... "Lamborghini?  What Lamborghini?"  I doubt anyone reading this actually owns a Lamborghini, or any other car that can go 200 miles per hour.  But what if you got the chance to drive the Lamborghini in the clip above?  How fast would you go?  My guess is that you'd want to get as close to 200 mph as you possibly could.  Right?  For those of you who are Nascar fans, the same goes if you got a chance to drive a race car.  You'd want to get as close to top speed as possible.  Right?

The reason I'm bringing this up harks back to something I heard as a kid.  In the early 1970's, when I was a little kid, my dad read a magazine article that said that humans only use two to three percent of our brains.  My dad told me this, and we wondered what would be possible if we could use our whole brains.  If you look on Wikipedia, there's a page devoted to the "ten percent brain myth."  According to this article, the idea that we only use ten percent of our brains (or a similar small percentage) goes back to the late 1800's.  The article goes on to say that we actually use all of our brains, but certain parts of the brain are more active during various activities.  The article also says that some people believe that if we could tap into a higher percentage of our brains' potential, that we'd be able to do amazing things, maybe even ESP.  The Wikipedia article then says that ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) has never been proven.  Actually the Wikipedia article is wrong on this count.  If you look into the work of Ingo Swann, and Joe McMoneagle (among others), you will find that some ESP abilities have been proven in clinical conditions.  Both Joe and Ingo were part of the U.S. government's remote viewing program that was in operation from about 1974 to 1994.  But this post isn't about ESP.  It's about realizing our own potential in our lives.

The truth is, no one really knows just what the human brain, or the human organism, is really capable of.  But there are examples all around us of people who have used a greater part of their potential than most of us do.  In the business world, we see lots of self-made millionaires and billionaires in a world where a huge percentage of the population lives in poverty.  We see talented people in music and all the arts that connect with us on many levels.  We also have a handful of people throughout history who have shown seemingly impossible abilities.  Ghandi and Martin Luther King, among others, led social movements that continue to affect and inspire people.  Mother Teresa and Peace Pilgrim, and most of the Catholic saints, lived humble lives that impacted and inspired people long after their deaths.  Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of the martial art of Aikido, was said to have done things that make him seem like a real-life Yoda.  Then we have the founders of the great religions, like Jesus of Nazareth, the Buddha, and Mohammed, all of whom influence millions, even billions of people, centuries after their deaths. 

All of these people lived as human beings on this Earth.  Were they born with super powers?  In the case of the religious founders, the answer was probably "yes."  But what about all the other people doing amazing things in this world.  Were they born super humans?  No.  Somehow they found ways to use a much higher percentage of their potential than the average person does.  If we only use two or three percent of our potential, then that's like driving a Lamborghini (or a Nascar car) at six to eight miles per hour, instead of 200 mph.  It we use ten percent of our potential, then that's like driving 20 mph instead of 200 mph.  Let's face it, most of us are driving our human vehicles in first gear with the clutch most of the way in.  Is that all you got?  Really?  So...my question still stands.  How fast do you WANT to drive your Lamborghini?