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[Anonymous No.10695515]

Is it possible to become smarter? I'm not a normie tier brainlet but I do have a hard time grasping complicated concepts and I have trouble staying focused for more than 5 minutes as my thoughts start to wander away. I have organization and planning issues at well. It sounds like a signs of ADD or could it just be lack of self-discipline and laziness? I just don't want to get on medication if it's add.

[Anonymous No.10695540]

Read books. Keep at it everyday.

NO MATTER WHAT.

[Anonymous No.10695553]

>>10695515
As a 30 years old boomer, Im not as quick as I used to be intellectually which bothers me. Ive always been above average but the slight delay in recall sometimes makes me think if early 20s was more of my peak. Not sure if its just age, I always thought when I was put under once on anesthesia that my thought process was slightly altered after that but who knows.

I can still learn as I can speak a 2nd language now that I started learning last year. Probably important to keep learning/reading and staying curious.

[Anonymous No.10695579]

Yep. Math bachelor made me smart as fuck.
I'm not even joking, but I worked pretty hard (equivalent of 4.0 gpa in heidelberg, germany).

[Anonymous No.10695594]

Do various IQ puzzles, games, questions, etc.
Also exercise, eat healthy, and take supplements like essential fatty acids, which all ultimately help your brain and will help prevent it from deteriorating.

[Anonymous No.10695615]

>>10695515

Get into programming. It forces you to think logically in daily life too.

"Programming makes you smarter"
-Steven Occupations

[Anonymous No.10695658]

>>10695553
27 yo zoomer here, I definitely feel like I've become dumber the last few years. My mind is not as quick as it was before.

[Anonymous No.10695711]

>>10695515

Invest in Vechain, get rich and you won't need a head to make it in life.

[Anonymous No.10696191]

>>10695515
learning to play winning poker helped me to focus on whats important to succede and to realize what bad decisions are.

[Anonymous No.10696224]

read a book nigger is NOT a meme
read a book nigger

[Anonymous No.10696241]

>>10695515
Yes, but not for you.

[Anonymous No.10696262]

>>10695515
Unironically your first step is to moderate your participation on 4chan, this place will not make you smarter. Try cutting back to 30 minutes a day.

[Anonymous No.10696673]

>>10695553
used to be genius tier back in high school, full retard that can't focus for longer than 5 seconds at 25yo, aging sucks

[Anonymous No.10696694]

>>10696262

Not true. This place is great for finding the occasional radical thought or concept you couldn’t see in mainstream media.

[Anonymous No.10697254]

If you have been like that since you were kid then it's probably ADD although it might also be lack of self-discipline. You should do some ADD tests to see whether you have it or not

[Anonymous No.10697317]

>>10696694
i already took every redpill this place has

[Anonymous No.10697386]

>>10695515
you will need medication, it will kickstart your rehabilitation

you;re not retarded you're just full with brain fog and cant hold your thoughts

but being able to pay attention is the most powerfull thing there is/ Trust me. You can only understand shit if you can deeply understand and listen to it/ If your mind wanders of you're fucked

Luckily you can change, you can train yourself to be more attentive, focus, meditate, take some ritalin

Go for some nootropics like Adrafinil and aniracetam

you'll get such a rush of being focused you'll feel so god damn smart you wont believe it/ Pursue that feeling untill it is within you without the meds

Brain plasticity, train your brain, used meds to kicsktart GL anon

[Anonymous No.10697697]

>>10695515
All of these daily:
Blueberries, Turmeric, Lion's Mane mushrooms, iodine supplementation, high dose omega 3 DHA, nootropics, lsd microdosing, NoFap.

[Anonymous No.10697727]

>>10695515
Read daily, learn a language, play piano, listen to classical music.

[Anonymous No.10697733]

>>10696694
this place is literally becoming the modern crucible of thought
the implications are unbelieveable

[Anonymous No.10697753]

yeah pretty much just read anything. ok maybe not romance novels. but for cereal, reading will increase your vocabulary which is a big leg up.
I really enjoyed yuval harari's "sapiens" recently. :)

[Anonymous No.10697817]

>>10697697
THIS. I don't know much about the LSD though but I have been taking supplements and it's helped me a lot. Fruit smoothies, SARDINES, vitamins, nootropics, getting out and hiking ten miles in a day. READ READ READ READ READ!!!!!!!! If you're gonna game, stick to nothing but strategy.

[Anonymous No.10697825]

I had brains once

[Anonymous No.10698157]

>>10695540
Also: if you are trying to learn new stuff, read strictly linearly, and make sure that you understood EVERYTHING before you move on to the next section.
You can learn anything this way. Maybe some things are going to take a long time to understand, but at the end it's always worth it.

[Anonymous No.10698168]

Also, play Portal and Braid

[Anonymous No.10698202]

>tfw on the perfect spectrum spot

[Anonymous No.10698244]

>>10695515
every one can become smarter. what you have to do is test yourself and be honest with yourself. you need to find your data retention time frame. each person has a maximum amount of time they can store data. this can be viewed with pages of a book or minutes of a movie/ tv show

the average person cant retain a full 30 minutes of data in video form and has gaps. so decades ago through study they found switching subjects back and forth between 15 minute intervals helped most students dramatically

you can also increase your maximum data retention time frame over time but you have to basically read a lot and then test yourself or binge watch shit and test yourself.

some would laugh but the average harvard gran just paid their way through. a couple years ago a student who doesnt exist got a A without ever showing up or taking any tests. a professor thought the exam grades seemed to consistent of another professor and he added a name to the list of the other professor

[Anonymous No.10698255]

>>10698244
pretty sure you can improve memorization but can't improve your ability to grasp and solve abstract problems

[Anonymous No.10698343]

>>10698255
>but can't improve your ability to grasp and solve abstract problems
For that filling in the gaps you have in your foundation for understanding abstract problems would be helpful. By studying math for example, or learning to make complex 3D visualizations.
If you fill in all the gaps (or most of them), your abstraction skills are going to suddenly moon.

[Anonymous No.10698350]

>>10696694
and you spend hours subjecting yourself to the most retarded shit on the Internet
comes out as a net loss my man

[Anonymous No.10698408]

>>10698350

this.