0:02 so you want to become smart in most of
0:04 the world you're told that it takes 12
0:06 years of school plus 4 years of college
0:08 plus 6 years of graduate school to
0:10 become smart but what you actually
0:13 become is homeless that's not even a
0:15 joke but on the bright side when you
0:17 make a Reddit post about how you can't
0:19 get a job you can do it in perfect
0:21 English if you haven't guessed by the
0:23 title becoming smart is actually very
0:25 easy even if you think your genetics
0:27 make you dumb if you compare yourself to
0:29 every other animal you're actually
0:31 pretty over powered when people like you
0:33 and me say we want to get smarter it
0:36 means a bunch of things we want to learn
0:38 useful skills ideally skills that make
0:40 money we want to be good at solving
0:42 problems hopefully for money we want to
0:44 get better geds and learn difficult
0:47 subjects to make more money and also to
0:49 flex on people and lastly we want to
0:51 sound smart in conversation just enough
0:54 so people respect you but not too much
0:55 to the point where people think you're a
0:57 nerd the problem is most advice on the
1:00 Internet is so vague and philosophical
1:02 that even if it works the only people
1:04 who could actually follow it are Oprah
1:07 and Socrates and if you instead look for
1:08 specific advice that you can actually
1:11 try right now this is what you get eat
1:13 blueberries cuz they brain food drink
1:18 black coffee exercise sleep more take IQ
1:20 tests listen to classical music these
1:22 things sound good but at some point you
1:25 have to you know actually learn stuff
1:27 besides even in the past there have been
1:28 some Geniuses who have spent the whole
1:30 day sitting at a desk desk getting 2 to
1:33 4 hours of sleep a day so what can you
1:35 actually do to get smarter that's not
1:37 just the same six brain hacks from a
1:39 Facebook post copied and pasted from a
1:41 Wiki how article inspired by a quote
1:43 spray painted on a New York Subway wall
1:45 the main thing you need to do is read
1:48 what kind of reading it depends fiction
1:50 is good for learning to read faster and
1:52 it gives you a better vocabulary also if
1:54 you read a lot of dialogue it makes you
1:56 feel like you have friends but most
1:59 people go straight for non-fiction which
2:01 indeed is the key to being able to
2:03 casually drop interesting knowledge in
2:05 conversations for example just by
2:07 reading this book you can come off to
2:09 anyone in conversation as someone who
2:11 knows history the key is to not be
2:14 obnoxious about it crazy how we evolved
2:16 from chimpanzees right well actually
2:19 evolution is nonlinear and several human
2:21 like species inhabited Earth
2:23 simultaneously none of which could even
2:26 be remotely considered as chimpanzees
2:28 while this is considered polite by the
2:30 standards of a YouTube comment section
2:33 in real life saying well actually before
2:34 proving someone wrong will make you
2:37 instantly unlikable change the well to
2:40 an easy and now we're talking let's redo
2:42 that conversation crazy how we evolved
2:45 from chimpanzees right it is crazy right
2:47 you know I was reading the other day and
2:49 apparently humans and
2:51 chimpanzees I always thought we evolved
2:53 from them but I guess we just evolved
2:56 side by side you can be smart while also
2:58 being humble and also sounding like you
3:01 touch grass the key is to teach people
3:03 what you know without making them sound
3:06 dumb this way people will actually learn
3:08 from you which will make them see you as
3:10 smart and respectable now how do you
3:13 find these books it's actually really
3:15 easy you don't have to read the same
3:17 five books everyone tells you to read
3:19 just think of a topic you want to learn
3:22 about like cleaning now Google books
3:24 about cleaning here's one that looks
3:27 good usually these books cost money but
3:28 if your finger slips you might
3:30 accidentally end up on this website and
3:32 you might accidentally search for the
3:34 title of the book and by chance click on
3:37 the first link and oh no accidentally
3:40 downloaded a file and opened it with the
3:42 appropriate ebook viewer well now that
3:44 you have the book you'll also find that
3:46 not only can you pick out interesting
3:48 tidbits to use in conversations but you
3:51 can also learn many useful skills there
3:52 are 10 things you should know before you
3:55 learn a skill one unless you practice
3:57 the skill your brain will think it's
3:59 useless and forget it two you only have
4:02 have to know 20% of the knowledge to
4:05 master 80% of the skill so I guess we
4:07 could just move on this is called the
4:09 learning curve it's a graph of how good
4:11 you get at a skill over time as you can
4:14 see just by practicing a little bit you
4:15 can make a lot of progress in the
4:17 beginning but you have to practice no
4:20 one ever learned how to tie a tie by
4:22 watching how to tie a tie you only learn
4:24 how to tie a tie by watching how to tie
4:27 a tie while tying a tie the same applies
4:29 to reading books only make you smarter
4:31 if you give your brain a reason to
4:33 remember the stuff in the book so once
4:34 you read the chapter on cleaning a
4:37 bedroom go ahead and clean a bedroom
4:38 doesn't even have to be your bedroom
4:41 just clean one and now you'll never
4:43 forget it but let's just imagine that's
4:44 something that you can't practice right
4:47 now like imagine you're reading a book
4:49 about cars and then you see this diagram
4:51 of how to jump start a dead car with a
4:54 good car ideally you'll read about it
4:56 and then go practice it but not everyone
4:58 has two cars lying around to practice on
5:00 but you can still practice it by just
5:02 imagining imagine the moment where
5:04 you'll need to know how to jump start a
5:07 car put yourself in the situation find a
5:09 video and pretend that's your car by
5:11 imagining the whole process from start
5:14 to finish you just convinced your brain
5:16 that you used all that information and
5:18 now you'll remember it meanwhile the
5:20 person who just looked at the diagram
5:22 and tried to memorize it still won't
5:24 know what to do if they ever had to jump
5:27 start a car this is how you get smart
5:29 use everything you learn and if you can
5:31 imagine yourself in the moment where
5:34 it'll be useful this is basically how
5:36 the entire school system works you learn
5:38 a piece of information and because it'll
5:40 be like 15 years before you actually use
5:42 it your teacher creates an imaginary
5:45 situation where that information is
5:48 useful that is a test an exam that has
5:50 questions on that exact piece of
5:52 information and if you get it wrong you
5:55 fail or in South Korea you get prison
5:58 time just kidding that's only if you
6:00 cheat this is usually in enough to make
6:02 your brain at least attempt to remember
6:04 the information the only problem is once
6:06 the test is over your brain says it's
6:08 not useful anymore and you forget it
6:10 some people think repetition or space
6:13 repetition or studying in intervals or
6:15 mind mapping will help them get better
6:17 grades and learn faster but in reality
6:19 doing practice questions will give you
6:22 the most results because they simulate
6:24 the actual situation in which you'll
6:25 need to use what you learned if you
6:27 don't have any practice questions make
6:29 your own and convince yourself that the
6:32 stakes are high like pretend that you're
6:33 hanging off a cliff by one arm and
6:35 someone's there to pull you up but only
6:38 if you can name all the parts of a human
6:41 cell learning information and making it
6:43 seem useful to your brain is all you
6:45 need to get smart and this is why
6:47 textbooks are the S tier format for
6:50 becoming smart as fast as possible
6:52 there's no fluff no handholding no
6:55 distractions just pure information and a
6:57 bunch of practice questions and if you
6:59 can't solve them you have to flip all
7:03 the way to page XXX VV I II in the
7:05 appendix to get help textbooks aren't
7:07 for the Casual learner because it's not
7:09 as fun as watching a YouTube video on
7:11 the topic and forgetting it all an hour
7:13 later but if you're ever up to the
7:15 challenge there is a website you might
7:17 accidentally end up on where you could
7:19 accidentally download free textbooks on
7:22 any subject you want but before you do
7:23 that I'm collecting donations in the
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