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How to be smart?

>> No.5884681

>>5884625
Be anyone but OP.

Sorry, I think you're out of luck on this one.

>> No.5884713

i would say read. read anything at first. then read some novels. read until reading a few dozen pages and having good recall is effortless, easy and quick.

>> No.5886280

Spend more time on /sci/.

>> No.5887378

>>5886280
How would that help?

>> No.5887393

>>5884713
why would you read novels and not some real books?

>> No.5887407

Learn.

Read, memorize, teach, make

Create. You're already doing 90% of the job required. You're an active agent that constantly affirms the 'perceptioness' of your own perceptions.

>> No.5887409

>>5887393
language development and reading skills. It can also make you a more social person

>> No.5887418

to actually be more intelligent, rather than more knowledgeable or learned, would be to try to practice seeing the mirror of self and only that mirror and live through it.

>> No.5887419

>Be smart
You either are or aren't.

>> No.5887421

>>5887419
:an excellent example of a unintelligent statement

>> No.5887423

>>5887421
Intelligence is mostly genetic.

>> No.5887426

>>5887423
another good example...

the ability to be intelligent is mostly genetic... what you are saying is meaningless

>> No.5887430

>>5887423

The genetics of intelligence, however influential, is nothing without it's experiential component.

>> No.5888783

>>5887421
Your post is self-referential.

>> No.5889064

Watch anime every day and play yuri VNs

>> No.5889075

>>5888783

Wouldn't that make it clever though?

>> No.5889135
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5889135

>>5884681
>luck

>> No.5889144

>>5884625
Try not shitposting these sort of images...

>> No.5889345

7

>> No.5889476

>>5884625
Watch random interesting scienc-ey shows and documentaries including everything that interests you. Example: Nova usually is interesting to me. Most importantly make sure it interests you, that way you will remember it. Always pursue more than one answer to your questions, the first answer you get is not always the best answer.

Remember though, there is a difference between smart, intelligent, and wise. Smart means that you have a lot of knowledge; Intelligent means you know how to increase your knowledge; wise means you know how to use knowledge.

Anyway, That's what I do.

>> No.5889486

>>5889476
Oh, and reading will be involved. While it may not play as central a role as many people make it out to play, it is very important to read about what interests you.

>> No.5889523

1. Be not as smart
2. Get more smarter
3. Be smart
4. ???
5. Profit

>> No.5889534

>>5884625
>6 years old, father explains arithmetic till I get it, explains the concept and units of scale (the idea of kilo, mega, giga and on, as well as milli, micro, nano, and on; the basics of Fermi approximations).
>at 2nd grade struggle with reading: phonics that shit
>forget 4th grade because you spent the whole time reading (I remember the concrete on the way to the library, the cafeteria, and what the cafeteria counter looked like at that time, oh and books)
>5th grade - finish The Way Things Work - mammoths are cool
>6th grade - finish some pocket encyclopedia "of the universe"
>Don't get brained by random acts of... violence, accidents, etc.

The entire time, if you have the barest inkling of a question about anything, get that shit answered with an explanation and background. As a kid, you have the fundamental right, in this day and age, to get any answer you want answered thoroughly, as well as slack off from doing anything 8-12hrs a days reading. It's a social stigma for parents to keep their kids from reading, like I would publicly berate a parent for that shit.


Now if you're too old to benefit from this, maybe your kids may still?

>> No.5889634

>>5889075
It would make a paradox.

>> No.5890646

>>5889523
Thank you. This post was very helpful to me.

>> No.5890874

>>5889476
>Lockheed Martin underwriting a program about drones

>> No.5890923

>>5884625
You have to work really hard and make sure you understand everything you're studying.

Some people have to work harder than others. That's it.

>> No.5891393

>>5890923
How hard must you work?

>> No.5891412

>>5891393

I'm not the person you responded to, but that varies with the topic, the person doing the learning, and simply however long it takes to understand it. Some things like math, reading, or playing an isntrument, you learn slowly and with practice, or you don't learn at all. Other topics/skills you can understand in seconds, master in days. The answer to your question is the reason why brains exist, it can get really complicated trying to figure out what to do next.

>> No.5893083

>>5891412
>Some things like math, reading, or playing an isntrument, you learn slowly and with practice, or you don't learn at all

I learned them rather quickly.

>> No.5893826

>>5893083
For some people a topic may require an infinite amount of time to understand.

>> No.5894945

>>5893826
But humans don't live an infinite amount of time.

>> No.5895760

>>5889634
How is it a paradox?

>> No.5896970

>>5887378
Posting on /sci/ increases your IQ.

>> No.5896984

Ask questions and seek answers + time. It's that simple.

>> No.5897012

>>5896970
Yep. Every time I have a discussion with someone with a higher IQ than me, mine seems to go up.

>> No.5897818

>>5897012
How are you able to tell?

>> No.5898722

>>5884625
It all boils down to one basic thing: curiosity.
You have to want to know things. Many kinds of things. Ask questions, seek answers. Read, research, discuss, share, contemplate, obsess, compare. Even if only a tenth of your questions are answered, a tenth of a thousand is more than all of fifty.

>> No.5898726

being smart is overrated. better to have good common sense and good judgment.

>> No.5899862

>>5898726
>good common sense and good judgment
Those come naturally if you are smart.

>> No.5899988

>>5884625
Do mathematics, lots and lots of it.

>> No.5901110

>>5899988
What kind of mathematics?

>> No.5901172

>>5901110
Work through it progressively. Start with linear algebra and work your way up from there.

>> No.5901901

>>5901172
What should I learn next?

>> No.5901958

>>5901901
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/index.htm
everything on here couldn't hurt

>> No.5902017

Develop an interest in things you don't understand.

>You'll get there eventually