How to be intelligent? Do you need to read books and be good at trivia? Or answer some tests, and it tells you how smart you are?
Well, intelligence is an ability to organize and govern your life using your mind. It's like being a superhero on your own thoughts. It's like a superpower that you can use in this world.
But, how can you increase it? I mean, your IQ?
Let's discuss some ways on how to raise your IQ, stretch your brain, and learn new things.
Let's start.
π Play chess
I'm sure you're familiar with this one. This was known for centuries. A lot of people play this game and enjoyed it as well.
But did you know that chess helps your brain to develop your problem-solving skills?
So if you're already playing chess, keep it up. You can significantly increase your IQ. But to those who don't know the game, it's time to learn new things and improve your IQ levels.
π Begin meditating
Who loves meditating? This is somehow one of my favorite hobbies. π And knowing that it can increase my IQ, it motivates me to do it every day.
So instead of using my time on Facebook, I rather prefer to meditate.
It can really help us to be smarter.
π Get sufficient sleep
How many hours do you sleep at night? Seven, six, five? Well, based on the recommendation, we should sleep 8 hours per night.
And decreasing that recommended time can knock off our IQ.
Actually, regularly losing 2 hours of sleep per night for people with average IQ can result in "borderline retarded".
π Learn a new language
Did you know that learning a foreign language can make our brain grow? Yeah. So if you want to get smarter, try to do this. You don't need to use a lot of time on this one.
You can try learning it in just 10 minutes per day.
Too much information results in forgetting. So better learn from a few words, and increase it if you think you can already handle it.
π Play the guitar
The guitar is one of the instruments that can increase our IQ, even if we are adults or children.
Based on studies, playing music can boost your IQ from 7 points or more.
So if you have 98 IQ points, learning to strum new songs can improve your IQ to 105.
I don't know how to play chess tho π. But I know how to sleep early π€©