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Improve Your Intellect With These 12 Tips
3 min readMar 21, 2022
- Studying The Opposition — Keep enough of an open mind to learn about the other side so you see the full picture. Playing Devil’s Advocate can really help with this.
- Taking Time To Think — You’re smarter than you think you are, you just never take the time to apply your intellect. Just taking the time to think about concepts, how they relate and what you can do is often enough to grant you a completely new insight. Spend 10 Minutes a day thinking through things and you will find solutions for a large portion of the problems in your life.
- Deep & Broad — Deepen and broaden your knowledge. If you stay stuck too long in one specific thing your mind becomes fixed. Keep expanding, especially if that means getting uncomfortable.
- Making Analogies — There are things you’re already familiar with. Maybe it’s a sport you’re passionate about, a game you know a lot about or a certain show on TV. Compare your passions with what you are learning and create metaphors and analogies to deepen your understanding. It makes it easier to relate and memorize new knowledge.
- Teach — Teaching allows you to retain more information than with any other learning method. Get some friends to teach, turn on the camera and record a video or teach through writing on a Blog.
- Surrounding Yourself With Smarter…
