How to get smarter?!
Question:
How to get smarter?
What would you recommend I do to increase my IQ? That is, what sort of mental excercises would you recommend I take up. Or, would I have to adjust my food intake, or both?
Answers:
You wish to increase your I.Q.? The junk about only reading this and that, throwing away the television etc. is all about increasing how smart people percieve you. If you want to increase how much information and how readily you can understand something, there is a regimen of activities you can do.
Start with figuring out your learning style. For myself, I like to know the "Why?" of things and then extrapolate. Yours might be needing to understand a "relation" or "balance." Perhaps, if you're a visual learner, practice visualizing everything you see written or hear spoke in your mind until you understand it.
Knowing something and understanding are different things. The I.Q. test attempts to quantify how much you understand.
After you know how you learn, practice turning any learning experience into one that matches your needs. Go to Wikipedia and look at something you've always kind of wanted to know. I highly recommend the philosophical studies. Then take the words written and work on understanding it through your learning style.
Eventually you will see something, convert it to your learning style automatically and then once you have learned and understood it, you can take the problems, question etc before you and find a solution in understanding what the problem is. It gets easier and faster the more you practice until the process is intuitive and a true increase to your I.Q.
There is also one more thing you might try doing in tandem with this. There are strategies to test taking that you might look up, these can fool most I.Q. tests into thinking you're smarter than you are. Being able to regurgitate a classical novel may also make you seem smarter but if you're truely wanting to learn and be able to learn, you have the hardest part of learning: the desire. All you need afterwards is the skills to learn.