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7 Unusual Ways To Become Smarter

Different ways to think and become smarter

Tom Stevenson
6 min readAug 25, 2019
Photo by Rachel Gagnon on Reshot

We would all like to be smarter. To be able to make better decisions when we need to, and to be able to better remember what we have learned.

The problem is, learning stops for a lot of us after school. We forget that learning is something we do throughout our lives and not just for the first sixteen years of our lives.

Your brain does not stop learning the moment you leave school, it is a powerful tool that needs to be used, otherwise, it will waste away.

Intelligence is genetic and environmental. The genetic part is something we have no control over, however, we do have control over the environmental part.

By incorporating learning into our daily routine we can make ourselves smarter, irrespective of how old or how ‘smart’ you may be.

While learning for some of us may induce images of going back to school, or reading books packed with knowledge, it doesn’t have to be that way.

The brain is a malleable and powerful tool. It responds to a variety of different stimuli, all of which will increase your brainpower.

You don’t have to spend hours reading books or taking a course, you can incorporate some unusual and enjoyable activities into your…

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