/sci/ - Science & Math

[sage No.5352954]

How do I become smart?

[Anonymous No.5352958]

Acquire luck, re-roll

[sage No.5352960]

>>5352958
How do you know if you're smart?

Here's the same question on /lit/

>>>/lit/3244499

[Anonymous No.5352962]

nootropics
/thread

[Anonymous No.5352965]

>>5352960
Interesting question. People think I'm smart. I think I'm just slightly more dedicated than them.

[sage No.5352968]

>>5352962
>nootropics
Becoming "intelligent" dishonestly is terrible. It's like feeling good about getting an A+ on a test you cheated on.

[Anonymous No.5352979]

>>5352968
>honesty
>being succesful

pick one. just one.

[Anonymous No.5352984]

>>5352979
>THW this is completely true, in every field of human endeavor, since the beginning of our species.

All you need to be remembered is the ability to take credit and sound convincing.

[sage No.5352990]

>>5352979
Being successful and being intelligent are two different things.

[Anonymous No.5352993]

>>5352954

Read an hour a day OP for 6 months. Go to your library and find a book and just read for an hour a day and you will become smarter.

[Anonymous No.5352999]

>>5352979
Unfortunately, I agree

[Anonymous No.5353007]

>>5352979
post of the year

[sage No.5353009]

>>5352993
I've been doing that for the past year or so and I don't feel as if I wear getting smarter.

On the contrary, I feel like my mind is atrophying every day. I just finished my first semester of college, by the way.

[Anonymous No.5353011]

>>5353009
What do you read?

[Anonymous No.5353017]

>>5352993

Not OP, but I need to do that. I'm going to Barnes and Noble, in a bit. However, I'm not really sure if I should buy an H.P. Lovecraft book or a stephen king book.

[sage No.5353020]

>>5353011
Mostly fiction. I'm trying to change that by switching up and teaching myself calculus.

In the past months I've read:
War and Peace
The Trial
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Master and Margarita
Lolita
Crime and Punishment
Camus' essays
The Picture of Dorian Gray

basically books that are popular on /lit/. I realize that there's not much variety, but I have to catch up first before I branch out.

[Anonymous No.5353023]

>>5353009

Look. Forget being smarter. What do YOU enjoy doing? Do you like building cars? Do you like working with computers? Are you into fashion or something? Go and do what YOU love to do. Be the smartest person in that area and you can't go wrong.

[Anonymous No.5353025]

>>5352954
I think the definition of "smart" is subjective. I think the real difference between people is the one who always have attention in your own environment and always trying to "computing" the "signals" around them and applying this process forward in life (not only in school, university etc but all the time), and the one who doesn't ...

People in the first case who always fulfilled the "always trying to comprehend your environment nd always trying to question this results all the time (and built your own knowledge base, based in your own experience" are considered "smart" independent from any knowledge area or carreer , occupation, etc.

So, people who don't aver try to question herself are dumb. And the dumb people is not only the stupid one, but all people that let themselves be carried away in life. In that same group are the people who always attempt to "became smart" but always try to do this in the wrong way and don't achieve anything...

[Anonymous No.5353030]

>>5353023
>want to do computers
>you need math
>be 24
>intermediate algebra

[Anonymous No.5353065]

>>5353030
>be 24
>still have 60 years left
next excuse?

[Anonymous No.5353066]

How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day [Paperback] http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Think-Like-Leonardo-Vinci/dp/0440508274

[Anonymous No.5353067]

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>2012
>not even satan

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[Anonymous No.5353087]

>>5353065
THISSSSS

[Anonymous No.5353100]

>>5353065

Well supposedly we are due for world economic collapse in 2030 at which point most of us will die in the resulting war for resources and power... but 17 years more isn't too short of a time to do a bunch of cool shit in your life. I would just hate to wake up in 17 years and realize I spent that time doing something I didn't really enjoy doing.

[Anonymous No.5353104]

>>5352968
I'm going to assume your post was a troll attempt but why would you not want to enhance your ability to do things? If everyone "cheated" to get smarter, technology and science would be much more advanced and we could have cures to many new diseases.

[Anonymous No.5353109]

>>5353030
>>5353030
>>5353030

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7903460/Algebra__Calculus_And_Pre-Calculus_Know-It-All_-_Beginner_to_
Adv

No excuse OP. This is the simplest book I could find that covers algebra and calculus. If you can do calculus you can do anything computer related.

[Faye Kane, homeless brain No.5353110]

You're ALREADY smart. Just like Luke was already a Jedi; he just didn't know it.

--faye kane homeless brain