If your intellectual successes leave much to be desired, but the desire to become smart does not leave for a second, you should seriously engage in training the gray matter that is in your head.
The development of the mind and intellect is not an easy task, but with special care and perseverance you will be able to develop the most valuable ability to think in yourself, and this will only be your merit.
Instruction manual
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Develop an interest in knowledge, read more books, learn new things, communicate with new interesting people. Be open to everything unknown and do not be afraid to change your existing views on things.
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Learn to ask questions, do not trust the word, do not reckon with the existence of common truths or deep-rooted opinions and algorithms. By asking the questions “why?”, “Why?”, “How?”, “Why so, and not otherwise?”, You use your brain and, in the search for answers, develop intellectual abilities.
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Having realized that there is no final answer, and the whole world is a process, change and open the monotonous course of things. When any actions or conclusions are made, and you just follow them, the cells of your brain die. Therefore, even the path to work along an unusual trajectory or the development of the ability to write with your left hand will give birth to new connections in your brain, and work will begin.
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Think. If you are going to answer your interlocutor, do not pronounce the first sentence that comes up, as it appears from the first layer of templates. Every time try to come up with a new original answer, being careful of habitual and boring verbal turns, reactions to events.
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Solve creative mathematical problems that perfectly develop logical and heuristic thinking, and also play intellectual and strategic games. It seems to be having fun, at the same time you make your brain work fruitfully. Combine thought process and enjoyment.
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Stop writing information. You tune in to remembering, but actually forget everything as soon as you close the notebook. Start relying on your memory, and be sure that it will be really good for you.
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Stay focused. Do it in any situation, even in a room where it is very noisy. If thoughts go away, return them and continue to ponder some thing. In developing this skill, meditation based on the principle of concentration will help you.
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Communicate with people smarter than you, ask them questions, learn something. Turn on children's curiosity, then the interlocutor will be happy to tell you about anything, because he sees genuine interest in your eyes. Drop pride, everyone once learned something, including from other people.
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Develop the skill of speed reading. This is necessary to absorb a large amount of information with the ability to filter out unnecessary garbage, and make your brain work more efficiently and productively.
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And finally, get involved in business. A thinking person sooner or later stops working for the boss and starts his own business. Business is an excellent school of life, you will learn to think in a systematic way, to connect many phenomena and look for optimal ways out of any situations. Your mind will always be in good shape!