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The 12 Best Ways To Increase Your Intelligence
3 min readDec 16, 2021
- Studying the Opposition — Keep enough of an open mind to learn about the other side so you see the full picture.
- 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.
- 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 Comparisons — 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 People — Ever heard the saying “You’re the average of your 5 closest friends”? There is more truth to this than you know. If you surround yourself with smarter people…
