Can you improve intelligence or is it a wrap?

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Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge. You can become become both more knowledgeable and more intelligent.
The applying part is more important than being knowledgeable
Being smart =/ being knowledgeable
Being smart is your ability to intuit(focus, reason, imagine)
Someone can be more knowledgeable than a smarter person but a smarter person will be able to do more with less
 
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that shyt only impress gullible people. notice you said speak fast not intelligent then named 2 con men

they don't speak with intelligence they speak with a forked tongue so the goal is to loose you in how smart they sound... so you say boy they smart but analyzing their words reveals they say nothing. whole lot of fluff speech. it's more about appearing smart than being it.

Hit the nail on the head.

Think about lectures, seminars and general presentations. They don't speed through the material because the people listening need time to process the content.

People like Ben Shapiro memorise particular talking about and then apply them without regard for how relevant or accurate they are. They know that they are bombarding the listener and that they won't have time to process what is being said, so they rely heavily on the confidence they project in their voice.
 

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Yes you can. Just keep your mind flexible. That’s the key to maintaining intellectual longevity. If u have a brain capable of reconciling seemingly irreconcilable ideas, and you aren’t too stubborn to entertain absurdity, then no matter what trending knowledge you may encounter, you’ll still be mentally limber enough to apply old ideas to new paradigms and so on.

It’s the mental rigidity or lack of fluid thought that really causes people to stagnate intellectually.
(Why u think I be accusing people of being pseudo-autistic?:lolbron:)
And that comes from not knowing enough, not being curious enough to learn more, and one of the most important parts of intelligence: not giving yourself permission to dream and exercise your imagination.
Imagination is the cornerstone of intelligence.

I know a lot of very VERY smart people, who can’t take their massive stores of knowledge and apply it to anything different beyond the scope of their very narrow world views. So in spite of knowing a lot, they are still mentally stuck.
Do little mental exercises like entertaining perspectives that are diametrically opposed to each other. Indulge your curiosity about the smallest building blocks of phenomena that interests you.

And start inward. Analyze your own motivations and psychology down to the atomic level. We are all connected so the more you know about yourself, the more you’ll know about others.

Also study fallacies. It’ll expose most of shyt people try you with.:russ:
 
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Hit the nail on the head.

Think about lectures, seminars and general presentations. They don't speed through the material because the people listening need time to process the content.

People like Ben Shapiro memorise particular talking about and then apply them without regard for how relevant or accurate they are. They know that they are bombarding the listener and that they won't have time to process what is being said, so they rely heavily on the confidence they project in their voice.
The public education system is a cesspool for real intellect, people who can think and know what thinking means
Many people are not thinkers not even close
Probably a lot of truly intelligent people out there who don't know how smart they really are good grades or not because of life circumstances, crabs in the barell people starting in public school, and not knowing what being smart even means
When I say intelligent I mean ability and your ability to improve in terms of intuition(reasoning, imagination).
Too many people confuse being "right", regurgitating socially programmed thinking patterns, and remembering things as being smart
Anyone who talks like that is someone I know is not an intellect because intellectualism is thinking imaginatively(artist) and thinking rationally(math, scientific)
The public education system can make the smart look dumb and the dumb look smart
 

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The applying part is more important than being knowledgeable
Being smart =/ being knowledgeable
Being smart is your ability to intuit(reason, imagine)
Someone can be more knowledgeable than a smarter person but a smarter person will be able to do more with less
And how does one acquire this?:jbhmm:


I sense a bit of a circular arguement in here. @Matt504 was making a good point. You also never answered his question, btw.
 
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And how does one acquire this?:jbhmm:


I sense a bit of a circular arguement in here. @Matt504 was making a good point. You also never answered his question, btw.
It's already innate
It can only be improved upon hence people born geniuses or people increasing their natural IQ by years (maybe lifetimes before?)of focused self improvement by understanding and sharpening their innate genius intuition while others don't know what intuition is or become anti-intellectual

Intuition is decision making which is what your brain(more like receiver of the mind and it's thoughts) is always doing, even unconsciously
Decision making is synonymous with causality(abstract=math=reasoning, imagination, temporal=causality as we know it as past cause-->present cause-->future effect cause)
Things like reasoning, imagination, etc. are just different focuses and awareness of intuition which is causality (an association of things experienced 0,1, 2 or more times) and different principles (logic, imagination) for the reasoning behind cause to effect

The point is to make your intuition conscious (intuitively knowing what and what not to focus on and decide at will), increase the frequency of intuition in the form of receiving intuition (the most common definition of intuition thinking it is only a result), and to expand your intuition by generalizing it (more general, more things your intuition will activate for) via learning which is the point of learning not memorization which is why I hate the public education system
So many people's intuition becomes completely locked away in their unconscious mind by the time they reach college, not knowing intuition is the basis for problem solving(decision making), and learning

You become smarter via intuition and mastering its forms (reasoning, imagination, etc.)
You don't acquire intuition because you already have it innately, you increase the frequency of your conscious mind accessing it to the and consciously focus it until you can intuit at will efficiently

Making intuition willful and efficient is how people who seem like god like geniuses become smart because even math shows (godell's theorem) you have to take a leap of faith (intuition) in all decision making because intuition is decision making in the form of logic reasoning which is abstract causality leading to temporal causility(objective math=principle of sufficient reasoning by Leibiniz) and imagination (reasoning but the principle is whatever you imagine even if it violates a system of truth) with things like art, physics, philosophy, etc

Anyone who is smart artistically is smart in terms of imagination because they are applying their intuition imaginatively. You can be an artist(smart in imagination) or an intellect(smart in logic reasoning) or both.

For example I can make 1 + 1 = fish in my imagination (a decision based on any reason I want), but we know 1 + 1 = 2 (decision in the form of truth that is true by definition) = a decision based on principle of sufficient reasoning which starts with intuition since intuition is also behind definitions and definitions are the starting point of math

I can also receive a decision from intuition via intuition in the form of how it is usually defined via reception e.g. I intuited this, I have this intuition
Reception is passive and it requires you wait for intuition, instead of you proactively setting it in motion

In reality everything is different levels of intuition IMO (focus, imagination, reasoning)
Intuition is simply a means of arriving at a decision(effect cause), which is an association (imagined cause, truth cause, effect cause, etc.)
Intuition is associating=causality=decision making leading to association(cause, effect, options, decision) (a circle if you think about it) = imagination, reasoning, etc

People only associate intuition with truth, when truth in of itself is based on objective math(true by definition) leading to subjective math(true for a reason other than mathematical definition) which is based on..intuition

Truth is just an association with a measurement we decided represents reality
Intuition is connected to truth and imagination since intuition is the cause behind the decision(effect=truth or product of imagination) and truth and imagination are just different options(causes) for arriving at the decision(effect cause)

(Imagination goes from cause A to anything based on principle of anything I want, truth goes from cause A-->cause B based on principle of sufficient reasoning) = intuition

Intuition is associating(union, comparison, manipulation) leading to association(number=magnitude=unity), leading repetition or deviation of numbers in the association(multitude) via associating the numbers in the association or with numbers in other associations leading to concepts like causality which is the universal permutation of combination of things in all fields of knowledge including math and philosophy

Everyone has intuition secret to true genius, but don't have enough opportunity or life to figure out what their intuitions are and to master their intuitive ability or their conscious mind is no longer receptive via habit or brain damage

Many people's decision making is unconscious and based on gut feelings verified with measurements of truth, even in fields like math and physics. They just have systems for verifying the truth of an intuition(by definition-->extension in math, by definition-->extension-->repetition-->deviation and verification in applied math(science)) , while intuition in the form of imagination is creative will

Intuition is receiving intuitions(associations=decisions, options), intuiting(associating=making a decision, creating an option), an intuition(association=decision, option, both will be product of imagination or reasoning of truth), an intuitive focus of an intuition or other things (knowing what and what not to focus on during learning and decision making, intuitively)

This is why thinking intuitives are so rare in the world, because most people don't know intuition is the basis of their decision making(focus, imagination, reasoning) because intuition is decision making and its first cause(first option, first decision)
Some people wonder how people come up with what they do in art or math and science, it's because of their intuition. Your conscious mind isn't shyt compared to your unconscious mind yet the public education system trains you to rely on your conscious mind and ignore the intuition:mjlol::snoop:. That's why some people can never understand the heights some minds reach and how
 
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