Becoming genuinely smart is an active process of acquiring and applying knowledge, rather than passively accumulating credentials or relying on superficial "brain hacks." True intelligence is built through consistent, practical engagement with information.
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so you want to become smart in most of
the world you're told that it takes 12
years of school plus 4 years of college
plus 6 years of graduate school to
become smart but what you actually
become is homeless that's not even a
joke but on the bright side when you
make a Reddit post about how you can't
get a job you can do it in perfect
English if you haven't guessed by the
title becoming smart is actually very
easy even if you think your genetics
make you dumb if you compare yourself to
every other animal you're actually
pretty over powered when people like you
and me say we want to get smarter it
means a bunch of things we want to learn
useful skills ideally skills that make
money we want to be good at solving
problems hopefully for money we want to
get better geds and learn difficult
subjects to make more money and also to
flex on people and lastly we want to
sound smart in conversation just enough
so people respect you but not too much
to the point where people think you're a
nerd the problem is most advice on the
Internet is so vague and philosophical
that even if it works the only people
who could actually follow it are Oprah
and Socrates and if you instead look for
specific advice that you can actually
try right now this is what you get eat
blueberries cuz they brain food drink
black coffee exercise sleep more take IQ
tests listen to classical music these
things sound good but at some point you
have to you know actually learn stuff
besides even in the past there have been
some Geniuses who have spent the whole
day sitting at a desk desk getting 2 to
4 hours of sleep a day so what can you
actually do to get smarter that's not
just the same six brain hacks from a
Facebook post copied and pasted from a
Wiki how article inspired by a quote
spray painted on a New York Subway wall
the main thing you need to do is read
what kind of reading it depends fiction
is good for learning to read faster and
it gives you a better vocabulary also if
you read a lot of dialogue it makes you
feel like you have friends but most
people go straight for non-fiction which
indeed is the key to being able to
casually drop interesting knowledge in
conversations for example just by
reading this book you can come off to
anyone in conversation as someone who
knows history the key is to not be
obnoxious about it crazy how we evolved
from chimpanzees right well actually
evolution is nonlinear and several human
like species inhabited Earth
simultaneously none of which could even
be remotely considered as chimpanzees
while this is considered polite by the
standards of a YouTube comment section
in real life saying well actually before
proving someone wrong will make you
instantly unlikable change the well to
an easy and now we're talking let's redo
that conversation crazy how we evolved
from chimpanzees right it is crazy right
you know I was reading the other day and
apparently humans and
chimpanzees I always thought we evolved
from them but I guess we just evolved
side by side you can be smart while also
being humble and also sounding like you
touch grass the key is to teach people
what you know without making them sound
dumb this way people will actually learn
from you which will make them see you as
smart and respectable now how do you
find these books it's actually really
easy you don't have to read the same
five books everyone tells you to read
just think of a topic you want to learn
about like cleaning now Google books
about cleaning here's one that looks
good usually these books cost money but
if your finger slips you might
accidentally end up on this website and
you might accidentally search for the
title of the book and by chance click on
the first link and oh no accidentally
downloaded a file and opened it with the
appropriate ebook viewer well now that
you have the book you'll also find that
not only can you pick out interesting
tidbits to use in conversations but you
can also learn many useful skills there
are 10 things you should know before you
learn a skill one unless you practice
the skill your brain will think it's
useless and forget it two you only have
have to know 20% of the knowledge to
master 80% of the skill so I guess we
could just move on this is called the
learning curve it's a graph of how good
you get at a skill over time as you can
see just by practicing a little bit you
can make a lot of progress in the
beginning but you have to practice no
one ever learned how to tie a tie by
watching how to tie a tie you only learn
how to tie a tie by watching how to tie
a tie while tying a tie the same applies
to reading books only make you smarter
if you give your brain a reason to
remember the stuff in the book so once
you read the chapter on cleaning a
bedroom go ahead and clean a bedroom
doesn't even have to be your bedroom
just clean one and now you'll never
forget it but let's just imagine that's
something that you can't practice right
now like imagine you're reading a book
about cars and then you see this diagram
of how to jump start a dead car with a
good car ideally you'll read about it
and then go practice it but not everyone
has two cars lying around to practice on
but you can still practice it by just
imagining imagine the moment where
you'll need to know how to jump start a
car put yourself in the situation find a
video and pretend that's your car by
imagining the whole process from start
to finish you just convinced your brain
that you used all that information and
now you'll remember it meanwhile the
person who just looked at the diagram
and tried to memorize it still won't
know what to do if they ever had to jump
start a car this is how you get smart
use everything you learn and if you can
imagine yourself in the moment where
it'll be useful this is basically how
the entire school system works you learn
a piece of information and because it'll
be like 15 years before you actually use
it your teacher creates an imaginary
situation where that information is
useful that is a test an exam that has
questions on that exact piece of
information and if you get it wrong you
fail or in South Korea you get prison
time just kidding that's only if you
cheat this is usually in enough to make
your brain at least attempt to remember
the information the only problem is once
the test is over your brain says it's
not useful anymore and you forget it
some people think repetition or space
repetition or studying in intervals or
mind mapping will help them get better
grades and learn faster but in reality
doing practice questions will give you
the most results because they simulate
the actual situation in which you'll
need to use what you learned if you
don't have any practice questions make
your own and convince yourself that the
stakes are high like pretend that you're
hanging off a cliff by one arm and
someone's there to pull you up but only
if you can name all the parts of a human
cell learning information and making it
seem useful to your brain is all you
need to get smart and this is why
textbooks are the S tier format for
becoming smart as fast as possible
there's no fluff no handholding no
distractions just pure information and a
bunch of practice questions and if you
can't solve them you have to flip all
the way to page XXX VV I II in the
appendix to get help textbooks aren't
for the Casual learner because it's not
as fun as watching a YouTube video on
the topic and forgetting it all an hour
later but if you're ever up to the
challenge there is a website you might
accidentally end up on where you could
accidentally download free textbooks on
any subject you want but before you do
that I'm collecting donations in the
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