Motivational speaker Gary Anaka gestures as he speaks to a crowd of 100 people at the Community Centre on Wednesday morning. Anaka calls himself a “brain health and wellness coach” and promotes ways to improve memory and mental sharpness. Anaka’s presentation was extremely funny but also quite interesting as he punctured many long-held popular-but-mythical notions about the human brain, such as the belief that “the brain is a hard-wored black box,” that we only use 10% of our brains, that nothing can be done about improving our brains, that we can’t grow new brain cells and that the human brain can’t change. You can find out more about Gary Anaka at his website: www.braincoach.ca. David F. Rooney photo
