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How to Be Smart ?
Intelligence isn't just something you're born with; you can make yourself smarter with a little bit of hard work! To be smart, exercise your brain with puzzles and creative tasks, develop your people skills, learn as much as you can about as much as you can, and continually strive to broaden your horizons by keeping an open mind and stepping outside your comfort zone. Increasing your intelligence may seem difficult, but as long as you have an eagerness to learn, it's a very doable goal.
Method One of Five:
Exercising Your BrainEdit
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Work on puzzles like the Rubik's cube.Doing puzzles like these will keep your brain working and increase your mental capabilities. Your brain is a muscle: you have to exercise it!Sudoku is a great puzzle to try to solve and it expands your thinking. These can be purchased in books, are often printed in newspapers, and are easily found for free online.
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Do artistic activities. Drawing, sculpting, painting and other arts unleash your creative side and expand your problem solving skills. A creative brain can think outside the box to find ways to get things done better and faster.
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Do math. Learn how to do mental sums or speed math. The hard thinking that is required for math will make your brain work hard and help develop the connections that will help you think better and faster.
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Write stories or poetry. Creative writing forces your brain to work on inventing situations and dialogue, characters and environments. This will make you a better thinker and help you process information. Using language like this will also improve your vocabulary and speech. Writing is also a fantastic way of expressing yourself and your thoughts.
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Method Two of Five:
Developing Your People SkillsEdit
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Simplify. Talking about things that no one else can understand does not make you smart. Genius is the ability to translate the complex into the simple. Practice explaining concepts to others. See just how simple and clear you can make your explanations.
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Learn to listen carefully to others' opinions about controversial things, or things they know about and you do not.You do not have to agree with them but remember everybody has something to teach you. Asking questions may allow you to re-evaluate your own beliefs, or point out the flaws in theirs. Keep an open mind. The more intelligent you are the more questions you will ask of the people around you.
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Be nice to people. Practicing kindness in the face of challenges is a sign of maturity, class and intelligence. Remember that you also have a lot to learn from other people. Being kind to them will allow you access to their lives and experience. Who knows what you might learn?
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Method Three of Five:
Educating YourselfEdit
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Aim to educate yourself. Keep in mind education isn't the junk you are forced to do in school for diplomas and degrees; it's an understanding of the world around you. People who are naturally curious for some reason begin to stop asking questions the moment they hit school. The truly brilliant mind however, always questions their world and tries to make sense out of it. That is the secret to "genius".Try teaching yourself. You can even learn from your life experiences, sometimes called "unschooling".
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Work on your vocabulary. Use a few definitions from the dictionary each day, or subscribe to a "word-of-the-day" service online. You can also take the vocabulary tests in Readers Digest or buy a book on increasing your working vocabulary. Read the dictionary one word at a time. This will take you at least a year but you will grow intellectually.
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Read a variety of books. Reading a lot is often described as the secret to intelligence. The smartest people in the world tend to read every single day. You may not always enjoy it, but reading will open up your mind to a variety of new ideas and experiences. Keep your reading diverse by reading books of all genres.
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Educate yourself about the world around you. Cultivate an interest in subjects like current events, interesting facts, funny and inspiring quotations, good books and movies, scientific studies and interesting inventions. Educational television, like PBS, is a great way to learn. Learning to think critically about the world around you by being aware of cause and effect in events will make you much smarter.If you can read much faster than you can speak, it is much more efficient to read a book, or better yet a non-linear electronic document like a wiki than to watch a show for all but the most intellectually demanding or video-dependent learning. Commercial television is particularly bad because its ultimate purpose is to do just enough to keep you at the TV and its ads, not satisfy you so you can do something else.
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Make connections. Find uses for information, rather than just collecting useless trivia. Burying information somewhere deep in your brain is not useful; you have to be able to access it in situations. Think of situations in which a piece of information will make sense. Then share it and watch it grow!
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Method Four of Five:
Developing Good HabitsEdit
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Ask questions often. Asking questions and questioning everything around us constantly is what makes us smarter. There's nothing wrong with not knowing the whys or the hows! Everybody has something that they don't know. But by developing a healthy habit about asking when you don't know something, you'll find yourself getting smarter and smarter.
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Set goals once a week. Ask yourself during each goal-setting session, how many of last week's goals did I achieve? Why didn't I accomplish some of my goals and what can I do to give myself a greater chance of success?Constantly work hard to achieve each of your goals. Without goals, you would have nothing to hope for. Reward yourself after accomplishing your goal.Be organized. You don't need to be a total neat freak, but wasting time is not smart. Of course, there are many geniuses who are completely disorganized (think of the absent-minded professor) but if you're making an active effort to be smart, taking a conscious approach to how you spend your time is a big step in the right direction.
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Devote time to education. Educating yourself takes time, and if you want to get smarter it is going to require effort. Don’t expect it to happen overnight. You need to spend a lot of time actively thinking and learning if you want to really be smart.
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Always learn. There are many sources of information out there. For example: books, documentaries, and the internet. School is just one source of information. If you have straight A's, that doesn't mean that you are smart. Exercising an open mind will make you more intelligent and constantly learning will help you get there.
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Method Five of Five:
Expanding Your HorizonsEdit
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Learn a new language. Apart from being a linguistic exercise, it may bring you into contact with new people and ideas. You may feel less of a stranger when you visit a place and you know some of the language. Also, at some point you will realize that there are some phrases or concepts in other languages that have no direct translation in English! This can be a challenging and fun exercise for the mind. (Note, try to be patient and positive when studying a language as it may take time to reach the level you desire.)
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Visit new places as much as you can.Try to visit other countries too. Visiting cities in your country or in a different one gives you an open mind and teaches you about the universe. You will be able to understand other cultures (how people live in a different place, how they behave with each other). You will also be able to understand that there is so much to see and do anywhere. You will be fascinated on how there are so many different people and cultures in the world. That will make you smart and interesting.
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Be open-minded and willing to learn new things. Just because you're great at one thing doesn't mean you have to stick to it! Find ways to step out of your comfort zone. This is where the learning happens.
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I consider myself smart but does that make me smart? How can I be smarter than others?
Answered by wikiHow Contributor
Consider yourself as smart isn't sufficient to be smart, there needs to be more to back up your wish. It's also not ideal to strive to be smarter than others, without more. Being smart is more than book smarts or IQ; it's also about emotional intelligence, the ability to connect with others and the ability to consider others. It is not important to be the smartest person in the class -- what matters is that you should consider what you have to offer the world because everyone has the opportunity to make this world a better place.
How do I improve my ability to retain information?
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Take notes on the information you'd like to remember, and read them a couple times in the next few weeks. Try to engage with the topic by asking deeper questions or connecting it to topics you're more familiar with. If you need to remember one vital piece of information, learn special memory techniques.
Does getting enough sleep help your brain to be smart?
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It certainly does! Getting the right amount of sleep and rest every day helps to boost your brain power by laying down memories of what you've learned. Having sufficient sleep helps you to access/absorb information, which makes you smart.
How do I keep myself motivated and interested in a subject?
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Focus on and know your purpose. With your focus on purpose, you can help yourself to remain interested and proactive about learning more.
How do I remember vocabulary words. I am not good at remembering any.
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This will depend in your learning style: if you're good remembering shapes, then try to associate words with shapes. If you're good remembering sounds, then try to associate music or simple sounds to what you need to remember. This creates a pathway to develop your memory and train your brain to keep the words in mind.
What kind of books should I read?
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Anthing and everything from to art to zebras. Just read anything that sparks your interests.
I've moved to a different country and I'm afraid to talk in school because my classmates might laugh at my accent. How do I still do well in school?
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If other kids are teasing you, have your parents talk to your teacher, then to the school principal if that doesn't work. If you're worried that other kids will tease you but no one has yet, your parents can arrange to have you meet with the school counselor or a therapist. They can figure out how to make the classroom more comfortable for you. You can do great in school no matter what accent you have.
Sometimes my teacher gets angry and scolds me for asking different questions. How do I manage that situation?
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Stop asking questions at that point so as to prevent further aggravation. However, when class ends, go up and ask to speak privately to the teacher. Raise the matter politely, stating that you have been raised to ask questions as a valid and primary way of learning. Ask why the teacher did not appreciate you asking different questions. If the teacher's explanation is insufficient, or the teacher fails to apologize, tell your parents who can raise the matter for you. Asking questions is a vital way for human beings to learn and unless you are trolling or setting up the teacher, should not be treated as the wrong thing to do.
My mum says to take short breaks between studying. Is that necessary?
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It depends, if you're tired and you think you need a break, a 5 minute break is okay, but if you think it's unnecessary, then you could continue your study. It's actually up to you and while your mum is trying to be helpful, she's not the one studying and you could politely let her know that you've got it sorted to your study needs.
Will eating certain foods make me smarter?
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Protein from healthy sources such as fish or eggs gives your brain the energy it needs. For long term brain function, eat food high in omega 3 fatty acids (salmon, flaxseed, walnuts), high in vitamins, and low in saturated fat. Women should make sure they're getting enough iron from meat, leafy greens, beans, or supplements.
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