Daniel Kish: The Brains Amazing Potential Ability

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The human brain is an amazing organ full of resilience, sustainability to adapt. When the lost of a brain function occurs, the common coping mechanism is to "unlock" a new skill. However, this actuality is a complicated thought to grasp. Daniel Kish is an example of the brains amazing capacity ability. At the age of 13 months, he lost his ability to see, by age 2 Kish used echolocation to navigate the world. Psychologically and physically is a very demanding task, which is why only a few in the blind community use this ability. Daniel allowed a door to open up for echolocation experts and psychologist to start digging into the impending question “how much of the brains capacity do we still not know about.”

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