Is there a way to become smart ?

[Anonymous No.8915610]

I know and accept being a brainlet with low IQ but how can i change myself to be a bit more smarter

[Anonymous No.8915613]

>more smarter
I'd guess reading

And play a fuckton of sudoku

[Anonymous No.8915618]

Eat healthy, exercise, and sleep well.

[Anonymous No.8915622]

Stop posting frogs you idiot.

[Anonymous No.8915631]

>>8915610
Learn to Love Learning

LLL

[Anonymous No.8916134]

>>8915631
This really.
Learn things you love.
When studying something, be really interested in the topic.

IQ is not learning ability. It's more the speed and broadness ones able to think.
My IQ is pretty high, I think fast and on many levels 'at once', but suck at learning skills. But I do understand something real easy if I am truly interested. There is a difference.

[Anonymous No.8916689]

>>8915610
Study some mathematics. Learn to play a classical instrument. Eat healthy, exercise, don't waste much time on porn, vidya, and low quality friends. If this doesn't help, try amphetamine.

[Anonymous No.8916696]

Can mods please add these threads to the list of threads to not make on the sticky?

[Anonymous No.8917550]

>>8915610
If you are really serious I can tell you how I did it (I score higher on logic and memory tests now)

>no drinking
>no smoking anything
>must adhere to a healthy diet
>meditate once during the day, once at night (~20 minutes per session)
>no jerking off (if you must, please limit it to 1 time a week)
>take this brain-expanding class online
>guy on skype takes me through guided meditation exercise
>example: he asks you to read a sentence without getting confused or tripping up
>it requires a lot of focus and willpower
>also work through different problems from different fields
>this raised my IQ by 20 points and improved my day-to-day reasoning

Really you shouldn't focus on IQ. Focus on what skill you want to use in your life, then learn what you need to get that skill. Then actually apply your knowledge to better your life, get more money, but also don't be materialistic.

[Anonymous No.8917590]

>>8917550
Different anon, but isn't IQ static?

[Anonymous No.8918521]

>>8915610
You don't make those threads

Serious answer:
Logical reasoning AKA "intelligence" is a skill you can learn by exercise like all other skills.
IQ only measures innate pattern recognization, nothing that you can't obtain with practice.

Also abstractions - focus on understand the world via them like math. Nothing stimulates the human brain more than abstract thinking

[Anonymous No.8918531]

>>8918521
Also forgot to add...

Philosophy is literally about thinking in abstractions

[Anonymous No.8918539]

The smartest people are the ones who accept themselves. At the end of the day, the main point of life is happiness.

Who's smarter, a psychopathic genius like Hannibal Lecter who probably feels no emotions /happiness or a regular dude with a 90 IQ with a hot wife and loving family?

[Anonymous No.8918549]

>>8918539
>you can't be intelligent and accept yourself
Keep telling that to yourself, brainlet

[Anonymous No.8918563]

>>8918549
No, I'm saying that the OP obviously is not accepting himself and intelligence isn't everything.

[Anonymous No.8918588]

>>8918563
>I know and accept being a brainlet

OP accepts himself, but wants to improve

Why telling him that he shouldn't try? There is no issue with self-improvement

Like I said, you can be talented in "logical reasoning"(so basically being intelligent), but you can still improve that skill yourself with practice if you weren't that lucky

[Anonymous No.8918674]

>>8915613
>And play a fuckton of sudoku
This helps, and other puzzles. You can also solve challenging math problems.

[Anonymous No.8918714]

>>8917590
Well how do you define IQ? It's just how well you do on an IQ test, and you can get better at those types of problems.

[Anonymous No.8918732]

>>8915610
memorize and paraphrase what smart people do.

[Anonymous No.8918736]

Stay up to date on the consensus from the science community on every topic, scientific or not. Espouse these opinions loudly and call anyone who disagrees stupid.

[Anonymous No.8918763]

>>8917550
>>this raised my IQ by 20 points
Where are you actually getting your IQ tested?

[Anonymous No.8918832]

>>8918763

Not the person you are responding to, but why would it surprise you so much that someone could raise their IQ score? I'm not sure if there's much research on this, but we know that the average IQ scores drop over the summer and over a whole year if the student decided to take it off. Most common IQ tests have a large crystallized intelligence based subtests that would be influenced by studying math, language, and, problem solving. I think the biggest gains would happen for people who didn't care much for school but have a decent amount of fluid intelligence.

Even if it was an IQ test that is mostly fluid, say the Raven Progressive Matrices, someone could still see an improvement and if they develop an understanding of what exactly the test is looking for, than it can go up quickly. Does this really count as "becoming smarter" not really, but some of the people good at such tests are only good at them because they've taken similar tests before, and they get to wave their IQ around like everyone else.

The above happened to me, although I retested years later. The first time I took something very similar to the Raven I was 14 and it was during a 4 hour period, at the end of the summer. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I ended up scoring in the 10th percentile. Could have been a lack of instruction, or I didn't understand what the test was looking for, but years later I retested and I'm around the 88th percentile.