Techniques for getting smarter

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  1. darksidZz Valued Senior Member

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    What methods can someone use for gaining intelligence, or rather insight. Thanks!
     
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  7. francois Schwat? Registered Senior Member

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  8. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Why ask a question when you already know the answer?:shrug:
     
  9. Oniw17 ascetic, sage, diogenes, bum? Valued Senior Member

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    If you exhaust your muscles they grow stronger. When you get vaccines, it improves the functioning of your iimmune system. If you practice holding your breath, you can get better at it. You can condition your bones aswell. So maybe stimuli could improve your mind. If you're trying to gain insight to something specific, you could just force yourself to experience it.
     
  10. BenTheMan Dr. of Physics, Prof. of Love Valued Senior Member

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    This is an interesting question, actually.

    How do you measure "intelligence"? Do you just want to do better on IQ tests?
     
  11. Search & Destroy Take one bite at a time Moderator

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    Meditation (or Adderall) coupled with about any task. Chess, riddles, puzzles, drawing, programming, sports, cleaning the bathroom etc. Just make sure you are tuned in to what you are thinking about, and then any task becomes productive.
     
  12. Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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  13. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    No IQ test can ever measure intelligence for it never will have enough questions to answer about many aspects of the way people think. Some are great writers, poets, musicians, leaders, politicians, artists and on and on. IQ tests don't dwell with those aspects of ones thinking abilities and how could it? :shrug:
     
  14. BenTheMan Dr. of Physics, Prof. of Love Valued Senior Member

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    I've had this discussion before, and I basically agree with you. IQ measures SOMEthing, but I don't know what that is.

    What I DO want to know is what darksidzz means by getting "more intelligent".
     
  15. Tnerb Banned Banned

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    Yeah. That covers it. Good answer. lol.
     
  16. thinking Banned Banned

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    intelligence

    is about a mensa test

    which is about the speed of the mind ( I've done the test yrs ago )

    insight is entirely different

    there is no method to gain insight

    but imagination and/or knowledge is fundamental to insight
     
  17. Search & Destroy Take one bite at a time Moderator

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    what is insight?
     
  18. John Connellan Valued Senior Member

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    Where you can see things that other people can't see. Like using your knowledge of the relativity theory (which everybody has access to if they have enough normal intelligence to comprehend it) but then coming up with a new consequence of this theory.

    It is a good thing to have a a scientist, along with creativity
     
  19. frattman Registered Member

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    how to gain insight . . . there are two types, I think. Inward looking insight, and outward looking insight. The former can be gained by dissecting your actions into basic motivations and using that knowledge to help understand why others do what they do. Used appropriately, I think hallucinogens can help with that (for some people, at least). Outward looking insight can be achieved, in part, by sitting down with someone who is completely different from you and just listening. Realize that there are many different realities out there.
     
  20. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    Studies have shown that playing video games makes your brain work faster.

    HOWEVER, you need to read and do other things to make use of your faster brain.
     
  21. mikenostic Stop pretending you're smart! Registered Senior Member

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    Any type of exercise/puzzle, etc. that forces you to think fast.

    Dammit. You beat me to it Absane!
     
  22. Nasor Valued Senior Member

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    Studies have indeed found that doing puzzle or playing video games that make you think will indeed make you smarter, but you pretty quickly reach a plateau. As I recall some studies found that playing complicated strategy games made middle-aged people smarter, but they didn't have much effect on highschool or college students - apparently because they were already using their brains fairly often.
     
  23. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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    NOT reading my posts.
     

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