If your intellectual success leaves much to be desired, but the thirst to become smart does not leave for a second, you should seriously engage in training that gray matter that is in your head.
The development of the mind and intellect is not an easy task, but with special diligence and perseverance, you will be able to develop the most valuable ability to think, and this will only be your merit.
Instructions
Step 1
Develop an interest in learning, read more books, master new things, communicate with new interesting people. Be open to everything unknown and do not be afraid to change the prevailing views on things.
Step 2
Learn to ask questions, do not take your word for it, do not reckon with the existence of common truths or ingrained opinions and algorithms. Asking the questions “why?”, “Why?”, “How?”, “Why so, and not otherwise?”, You use your brain and, in search of answers, develop intellectual abilities.
Step 3
Realizing that there is no final answer, and the whole world is a process, change and discover the monotonous course of things. When any actions or conclusions are made, and you just follow them, your brain cells 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.
Step 4
Think. When going to answer the interlocutor, do not say the first phrase that comes up, as it appears from the first layer of templates. Try to come up with a new original answer every time, beware of habitual and boring phrases, reactions to events.
Step 5
Solve creative math problems that perfectly develop logical and heuristic thinking, as well as play mind and strategy games. Seemingly having fun, you at the same time make your brain work fruitfully. Combine thought and pleasure.
Step 6
Stop writing down information. You tune in to remember, but you actually forget everything as soon as you close your notebook. Start relying on your memory, and be sure - it will turn out to be really good for you.
Step 7
Concentrate. Do this in any situation, even in a very noisy room. If thoughts go away, bring them back and keep thinking about something. Meditation based on the principle of concentration will help you develop this skill.
Step 8
Communicate with people smarter than you, ask them questions, learn something. Turn on children's curiosity, then the interlocutor will gladly tell you about anything, because he sees genuine interest in your eyes. Drop pride, everyone once learned something, including from other people.
Step 9
Develop your speed reading skill. This is necessary both for absorbing a large amount of information with the ability to filter out unnecessary garbage, and for making your brain work better and more productively.
Step 10
Finally, get into 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, connect many phenomena and look for optimal ways out of any situations. Your mind will always be in good shape!
