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Increasing your IQ

Hm... I'm not that smart. WELL, I am over average, but, still. Not superior by that much. I never measured my IQ either.

Er... the point is that I feel as if I'm losing intelligence.

Perhaps the causes are that:
-I took some sort of harmful substance
-I'm schizophrenic
-Or something else.

I hope it's the latter. Well, I'm hoping that there are some people out here that could remedy my sudden lack of intellect.

Sure, I have a 4.0, but I FEEL rather stupid. I've been sitting up straight and chewing gum, which seem to help(if these are from placebo effects, don't tell me that they are).

So, I ask the community this:
-Is there some way of increasing one's Intelligence Quotient(or rather, stimulate the mind)
-If there any people out there who feel the same way as I do, please, share your thoughts on this subject
Try doing puzzles, riddles, and brain teasers. If you have a DS or Wii, you could try the games Brain Age or Big Brain Academy.

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Ah, I see. Interesting. Testing the brain may increase intelligence, right? I guess I'll try to play Big Brain Academy and solving a few riddles(I like riddles ^^).

Any other suggestions? Of course, I've exhausted Google of ideas, so I ask what have you guys found out about getting smarter?
Read, read and more reading. Trust me it works although the side effect is your brain gets filled with useless information. For instance I know that a whale cannot swallow anything larger than a grapefruit, James Bond's favourite drink isn't a vodka martini and alcohol (under 2.4%) works as well as water for re-hydrating you.
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I've felt this way before. Believe it or not, buying a book of variety puzzles from your local store can help a lot. Sudokus, crosswords, word searches, or anything that makes you think, really.

I've taken the ACT twice already, and I've scored above what it requires to get into collage :P I just do puzzles and that kind of stuff.

I only have a 3.4 GP due to my hatred of German class -_-'''
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yes, intelligence and knowledge are completely different things, i see what you mean, i'm not exactly the most knowledgeable person out there when it comes to lots of things (i've never even had straight As before) but i know HOW things work and how to imply certain knowledge, i have common sense when it comes to people and other things, but like everyone else here said, keep the mind sharp with sodokus or crosswords, thats why i do hacking, and i'm trying to learn asm, something to keep my mind occupied.
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Originally posted by Ultimaximus
Try doing puzzles, riddles, and brain teasers. If you have a DS or Wii, you could try the games Brain Age or Big Brain Academy.


I second that! I though reading more could help boost your IQ (yeah, like 0.001)
I think you guys are right about the books. I've, in the past, read the first five books of Harry Potter in third grade, and really, really colossal books with over at least 500 pages. Around now, there's hardly any time for reading. I think that I might be lacking reading, so I'll see that I test this theory of increasing IQ by reading.

It also makes sense that training your brain minutes a day with sudokus and crosswords can make you think faster.

It would also seem that most of you guys are rather bright. You know, you can have a high IQ and fail at school, like Einstein, who had trouble in school.

And on another word, I agree that knowledge and IQ are separate entities. Knowledge being the things you learned thought life, and IQ being the measurement of how well your brain works.
Try thinking about nothing. Just nothing. No feelings, no sound, no pictures. Not even black. Just sit or lie somewhere, thinking about nothing at all. (Have your soul leave your brain for a while.)

If you can do that, your brain is all right

Other than that, I can only repeat what the others are saying. Puzzles and logic riddles is what you need. And, of course, reading. Take some time before you go sleep and read through a couple of dozen pages of any book.
Thinking about nothing? How does that work? I don't think it may be possible to do that unless you've practice for quite some time. My mind is very active(or troubled), so it's going to be very hard for me to think of nothing. Only in sleep will that happen to me, and only if I'm not in REM. Strange, but I know not of the effects of your technique Ramon, I'll try this. Others should try that as well, to see if the effects are true.
I do know that your "IQ", but I'd rather say intelligence, drops as you get old. If you start doing something at 2 years old, you will be AWESOME after at this.

A 2 years old playing Piano should be really good at piano at 10... But, unless we find a way to turn back into a baby...
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Originally posted by Tama Yoshi
I do know that your "IQ", but I'd rather say intelligence, drops as you get old. If you start doing something at 2 years old, you will be AWESOME after at this.

A 2 years old playing Piano should be really good at piano at 10... But, unless we find a way to turn back into a baby...


I THINK when i was 2 i went on the computer and watched my grandma do puzzles..... i think thats why im an honor student ^^
And yes i find that reading helps alot ^^
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Yes, yes, as you grow older, your mind gets old as well, I suppose. You do lose about 10% or so by the time your 80, I think.

I also agree to learning at a young age may increase those skills. Such as learning a few languages at age five is much easier than learning them during high school or college.
Originally posted by ...Ellipse...
It would also seem that most of you guys are rather bright. You know, you can have a high IQ and fail at school, like Einstein, who had trouble in school.

OBJECTION!!
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Unless you consider harvard's site a not trustable source, this should be enough proof. the only issue were speach and anti-social behavor... during kindergarten

considering how many time I saw people with supposedly high IQ acting like moron(including myself, even tought I didn't scored that high), blinded by their ego or just not as smart that they should be(noticable example here), I see IQ as something extremely innacurate. The nature of intelligence itself is extremely abstract and not quantitable, so, there is no way to know if solving Sudokus improve your overall intelligence or just your abillity to solve Sudokus.

So my suggestion is that you pray Yukari to make you cross border between genius and normal