How can someone get smarter?
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I don't know if one can become "smarter", per se. Certainly gathering knowledge and thought will answer some questions in your life, as well as make you a more well-rounded individual mentally and spiritually.
Try reading some of the literary staples from Dickens, Shakespeare, Hemingway, Kafka, Tolstoy, Shelly, Twain, Homer, and Melville to expand your knowledge and self-philosophy. Reading is important to have coherent thoughts and a clean inner monologue that will help guide you through life. It also reinforces abstract thinking and imagination.
Listen to and study great musics. Some of the great composers had interesting lives to equal their interesting ears. J.S. Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, W.A. Mozart, Schubert, Wagner, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, and Ligeti have all created enormous statements with their musical works. Modern music is a good source of inspiration as well. Let your ears guide you to what you like, however. Do not be swayed by popularity or advertisement, like MTV.
Always ask questions. How was something made? Where did this object or idea come from, and why is it important? How are things related? What is my take on a particular subject or idea? It seems simple, but finding out the answers to your own questions can be quite enlightening and thought provoking. Sometimes there are many answers, other times there are none.
Try to understand some concepts in Physics. Look into the ideas and principals of Newton, Kepler, the Bernoulli family, Doppler, Einstein, Heisenberg, and Hawking. The mathematics behind their ideas isn't always so important to a non-physicist, but the principals, observations, and natural mechanisms discovered by these men effect you greatly every day of your life.
Study the culture and spirituality of many different peoples. Read good chunks of The Bible, The Qur'an, Tanakh, The Pali Canon, Śruti, to understand the spirituality of others. Experience the artwork of many cultures and viewpoints from; Picasso, da Vinci, Rembrandt, J. M. W. Turner, Duchamp, Rockwell, Sesshū, Giger, M. F. Husain, and Monet.
Hopefully this answer has been of some help to you. Learn, read about, and study things that interest you during your whole life. You'll be wiser for it.
"Open your mind to the past; art, history, philosophy, and all this may mean something." -Jean-Luc Picard (from ST:TNG episode: "Samaritan Snare")
Read... a lot! buy some encyclopedias and read those.
Hehe - that depends on what you mean by "smarter". But in general; feeding your brain with diversive infomation through experiences, and not limit yourself by fixed opinions and ways of thinking is a very good way of "getting smarter".
you could start kindergarten and work your way up through elemantary and then junior and high school. :P
by not asking stupid questions
get your head out of the sand and into a book
Reading, keeping your mind open to new things, also a good way to keep your brain active is to do puzzles like crosswords, word search, sudoku, and things of that sort.
If by "smarter" you mean more "mentally agile" this can be done by learning new skills and not necessarily from a book. Having a variety of experiences in life can make one more adept at problem solving.
read books, newspaper. try playin soduko, and crossword puzzles. trivia games
There is a simple answer to this really. The brain is a muscle. It gets stronger with use, weaker with disuse. So read a lot, figure things out for yourself, like use a calculator a whole lot less and do the numbers in your head. Do puzzles, anything that works the brain. And with computers, don't shy away from doing a little study and trying to figure things out for yourself instead of calling in some "guru" at the first sign of trouble.
Well, there are several ways. Intelligence is measured in intelligence quotient points, or IQ. To increase your IQ, play sudokus, do crosswords and other problem solving activities that stimulate your mind and get you thinking. Also read a lot - this increases your general knowledge.
I have seen some little books that condense a whole subject. I can't remember what they are called. Something like THE POCKET GUIDE TO... I have one about the theatre and another on wine, and there is one on the art world too. Of course you have to study and remember what is in these books. The theatre one gives you the plots of all wellknown plays, in just a couple of sentences, among other things, and the wine one tells you pronunciations of the various brands, e.g. Moet is pronounced Mert. I have been to lunch with a bunch of people who all pronounced it MO-EEE so I guess if I started calling it MERT, they would all think I was the less smart one. If you want to be smarter to feel at ease socially, that is good if you are with smart people, but if you are with a lot of dummies with money it is probably best to ooh and aah at their knowledge and let them feel smarter. I was having dinner with some gals and one was talking about FILO pastry and was pronouncing it to rhyme with FLY LOW, because she had a Filofax diary and she thought both words sounded the same cos they were spelt the same. Another gal, better looking and younger, corrected her in front of everyone and I have never seen such an embarrassed look on the other one's face. After that the one who corrected the other was not invited to lunch any more. I think it was because the others thought the time would come when she would correct them too. Age, experience and travel all help you to know more. Some every day things to you will seem new and marvellous to a foreigner. My boyfriend and I were on our knees in England looking at these twisted things amongst the grass. They were so ornate. The hotel owner came out and asked us what we were doing and we asked what these things were and he said WORM TURNS and was amazed we thought they were worth examining. Apparently when the worms twist about in the soil, the soil gets pushed out in the shape that the worm took up when writhing about. Then they dry in the sun like rock. Also when we came out of a dance we saw everyone on their knees next to their cars and were amazed again. Everyone was blowing ice out of their car door locks before inserting their car keys. Coming from a place where the only ice is in the fridge, we laughed and laughed and then had to do the same. So when people object to City Councillors going on overseas jaunts to get ideas, saying that the ideas can be learnt in books and on the net, some ideas are so obvious that they exist without any news item being published about them and can only be observed by falling over them personally. I hate people who say I'VE NEVER HEARD OF IT, as tho that is proof something doesn't exist. When you see Robin Hood on tv in castles, the castles are specially built sets, but when you see a castle in real life, the interior doorways to the bedrooms and kitchens are only about five feet high cos everyone in those olden days were midgets. They didn't have MacDonalds in those days to make them grow up big. Napoleon's suit of armour looked like a child's one. So I would say travel is very educational. It is no good being smarter than your main squeeze cos he will feel resentful all day. When someone yells GO TO YOUR LEFT, you will be going there and he will still be inspecting his hands for the one with the freckle on to tell him which is LEFT. When that freckle fades or disappears overnight (they do, you know), he will be all a dither. The person who is boss at work is not necessarily the smartest one there. Often it is that he has worked his way to the top by stabbing people in the back and being ruthless and a sociopath. If you are smart, you will leave a firm like that. Some millionaires can't read or write, and started off as crims and when they had enough money to go straight, they hired smart people to work for them and increase their money. Then you would think they would go and educate themselves but they just stay reclusive instead, so nobody will find out and they live in fear of someone from their past popping out of the woodwork to say HE STARTED AS AN ASSASSIN, YOU KNOW.
find something that interests you...and read about it...learn it...know it...then get into discussions about it and listen to what others say and their views...learn from that...but have the knowledge to discuss it...that is how you get smarter
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