Is there any real way to make yourself smarter, or at least get better at picking up new skills?Say you have been dealt the midwit and add card, born in a developing country™, and the scholarship to Tier 1/2 college pipeline is not on the tableWhats the best way to actually retain information and master new skills on your own? Any decent resources or books about this?
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mind palace technique/mnemonics/spaced repetitionmeditationexercisegood dietdual-n back (doesn't increase IQ, just helps keep you sharp and at your potential)everything else is geneticthere are things you can do to affect other aspects of cognition but not the g factor, and all of the above is just buoying, bypassing, or reducing load on the g factor
>>17081620people go to great lengths to keep themselves dumb, by constantly forcing some of their beliefs on their reality.they do not know how to just observe.
>>17081691Are there any nootropics/supplements that might help? Or are those mostly a memeAnd are there any supplemental remedies against ADD related concentration and focus issues?
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>>170816208fp 5 precepts gradual training sotapati arahantship
