how to improve your smartness?
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Keep reading and be open and thoughtful in your daily life.
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three options:\n1. if somehow he can greatly enhance his intelligence (less likely)\n2. practise more (possible)\n3. change major (possible)
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Well it really all depends on your age. If your a child or teen you can use many different techniques that your school will be able to offer. If you are an adult, your as smart as you can be for the rest of your life. What I mean by that is, that you can not become smarter, you can only know more. Thats why if you go to a post secondary school you are not becoming smarter, your only proving to your potential employer that you are smart enough to complete the school and that u gained knowledege (information) needed to perform the job. Now if what you ment is you want to memorize better, then do a quick search on memorization skills and pick the best that suites you.
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Just be patient.  Wisdom comes with age, and it comes from life experiences.  You seem to know that you aren't tactful or diplomatic, so work to change these traits.  Problem solving techniques come from being a good listener.  Talk to people that you see, who are tactful and diplomatic; seek a mentor!  Good luck to you!
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Find that happiness thats already inside you.\nOnce you do that, people notice and you make more friends, deal with life's problems much easier and become much more contented.\nBeing happy is the most intelligent thing anyone can do.
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you're doing it now.\nAsk questions, read books, learn a variety of topics.\ntalk to the smartest folks you know, about what they know, pick bits and pieces up. take classes, learn about things through a variety of occupations. Focus on what you are most interested in and become an expert.
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I didn't no any godly ways to do it, but I'll tell you my way\n1) you have a choice not to be snotty and obnoxious and be more serious and professional.\n\n2) Being smart is to know when to speak and when to be quit\n\n3) take charge of your situation as your were in command, think of what should you do or say\n\n4) Taking criticism is bad but good to, learn from it, be what you intended to be, a cool commander knows people will try to kill his resolve and knowing that is where you use you brain and walk the line you have drawn
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You probably don't need to get smarter(not sure if anybody really can); you probably need to be a little more efficient in your studying.\nTry asking the teachers for a little more help and if that isn't doing it, try some of those learning centers...It's probably that you learn in a certain way and what's being taught just isn't clicking for you.
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Hello Desh, I think you are brilliant already. The fact that you are aware that you can't remember some of the answers you read, is the first step in solving the challenge. To tell you the truth IT IS VERY EASY TO STUDY AND REMEMBER!\n\nFirstly, change the environment you study in. Some people study and absorb a lot in quite environments. You can chose a very quite library or study room. If you live in the country side move to the parks, but remember to stay in sight so people will easily come to your aid in case a lunatic threatens you.\n\nSome people also do very good studies in music filled environment. Tune in to your ipod or mp3 player and hit them books.\n\nSometimes you might also want to make it fun. If it is a history subject, put yourself into the drama and be the hero remembering all the characters in the lesson.\n\nOr better make your own music or discuss your topic or subject with one of your favorite friends and tell them to ask you questions about the subject in question. Hey! You are smart and am sure you gonna come out with the grades you are looking for. Good luck sweet heart.
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Three quick suggestions improve your vocabulary:\n\n1. Read more books.\n2. Keep a daily journal.\n3. Use a dictionary to reinforce your knowledge of how to spell unfamiliar words.
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Build up self confidence by always believing in your self. Laugh at your self when you know you have made some stupid mistakes. Act a little more slowly in carrying out any activity. People will definitely see a different you. They may even rate you a genius. Good luck.
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There are no shortcuts. The only way to improve (any skill) is to practice.\n\nJust read. Pick something you find a little hard.. and read that. Next time it won't be so hard.\n\nThen find something thats a little harder that that, and so on, and so on. It takes time, and practice.\n\nMake it a nightly routine.
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Take a speed reading course!  There are now computer programs you can purchase that will help you read faster.\n\nBy learning to read faster it increases your comprehension levels.  Then the more you read the more you learn.  Thus increasing your ability to  adapt your learning levels.  IQ  is actually a way to test your comprehension level.  If you learn faster and can retain that knowledge you increase your IQ!  But if you don't do the work to increase your IQ, by taking a speed reading course for example, you aren't going to go anywhere.  This is the only way to really make a difference.  You are born with a certain  IQ level.  Only by doing the hard work to learn and expand your knowledge can you do anything to change it!\n\nI took a speed reading class in school and it changed my life!
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Anything increases your IQ. It is an INTELLIGENCE quotient, so anything that increases your intelligence will increase your IQ.
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the yahoo answer formula to success is: the dumber the question the greater the response. the trick is to make the intelligent question sound stupid. that's takes intelligence?
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IQ measures how fast you think, remember things, see patterns, and solve puzzles.\n\nThinking is just like physical strength... the more you practice, the stronger you get.\n\nRead lots of books in many different genres.\n\nSolve many different kinds of puzzles. Once you understand HOW to solve a kind of puzzle, work on speed and accuracy (time yourself, but keep focusing on doing the puzzle correctly).\n\nLook for patterns in the clouds, tree leaves, and all around you. Listen for the patterns in music. \n\nIf you have the time, take classes to learn other languages. It has been proven that the one way to cause brain growth after childhood, is to learn another language (it increases the surface area of your brain... more folds and ridges).\n\nKeep in mind that your IQ score is merely a tool, not an end in itself. It tells educators and employers what tasks you will do well on by yourself, and what you need extra help on.
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Improving Your Memory\n\n1) Really think about you want to remember. If you wish to enter information into long-term memory, it is important to think about it. Ask questions about it, consider its meaning, and examine its relationship to information you already know. In other words, engage in “deep processing”. Doing so will help make the new information part of your existing knowledge frameworks – and increase your chances of remembering it at a later time.\n\n2) Pay careful attention to what you really want to remember. Unless you pay careful attention to information you want to remember, it stands little chance of really getting in” – into long-term memory. So, be sure to direct your full attention to the information you want to remember. True, it involves a bit of hard work, but in the long run, it will save you time and effort.\n\n3) Minimize interference. Interference is a major cause of forgetting, and, in general, the more similar materials are, the more likely they are to produce interference. In practical terms, this means that you should arrange your studying so that you don’t study similar objects one right after the other. Instead, work on subjects that are unrelated: the result may be less interference between them, better grades.\n\n4) Engage in distributed learning/practice. Don’t try to cram all the information you want to memorize into long-term storage at once. Rather, if possible, space your studying over several sessions – preferably several days. This is especially true if you want to retain the information for long periods of time rather than just the next examination.\n\n5) Use visual imagery and other mnemonics. You’ve probably already heard the saying ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. Where memory is concerned, this is sometimes true; it is often easier to remember information associated with vivid mental images (e.g., Gehrig & Toglia, 1989). You can put this principle to use by adopting any one of several different mnemonics – tactics for improving memory. One of these, the method of loci, involves linking points you want to remember with visual images arranged in some familiar order. For instance, suppose you want to remember the points in a speech you will soon be delivering. You can imagine walking through some familiar place, say, your own home. Then, form a series of images in which each item you wish to remember is placed in a specific location. Perhaps the first point is “The greenhouse effect is real”. You might imagine a large, steamy greenhouse right outside your front door. The next point might be “Cutting down the rain forest is increasing the greenhouse effect”. For this one, you might imagine a large, cut down tree in your living room. You would form other images, in a different location, for the other points you want to make. Then, by taking an imaginary walk through your house, you can “see” each of these images and thus remember the points in your speech.\n\n6) Give yourself retrieval clues. Remember the concept of state-dependent retrieval? As noted previously, you can use this principle to provide yourself with extra retrieval cues and so help enhance your memory. For instance, if you studied for a test while in a physical state, try to be in the same state when you take it – this may help. Similarly, use the principle of mood-dependent memory. If you learned some material while in a given mood and then want to remember it, try to put yourself in this same mood. This is not as hard as it may sound: you can often vary your own mood by imagining happy or sad events. To the degree that your mood now matches your mood when you learned the information, your memory may be enhanced for it.\n\n7) Develop your own shortcut codes. To learn the names of the planets in our solar system, many children use the first letter technique, in which the first letter of each word in a phrase stands for an item to be remembered. So, the sentence “Mary’s Viol