How to Be a Genius !!

  We hear a lot about genius. We are taught to admire the minds of those infinite, astonishing geniuses like Einstein, Tolstoy or Picasso. 

Genius can in this sense be defined as paying closer attention to our real thoughts and feelings and being brave and tenacious enough to hold onto them even when they find no immediate echo in the world beyond. The reason why we disavow so much of what passes through our minds is in essence anxiety. We kill off our most promising thoughts for fear of seeming strange to ourselves and others But when we censor and close down, when we take fright and try not to think, is exactly the moment when the so-called genius starts to take note of what is happening within them.  

  In the minds of geniuses, we find – once more – our own neglected thoughts- American genius Ralph Waldo Emerson  

  What this tells us is that the genius doesn’t have different kinds of thoughts from the rest of us. They simply take them more seriously. We ourselves will often have had our own sketchy, hesitant version of their ideas – which is why their works can have such a distinctive impression on us. What they present feels surprising and impressive, yet also obvious and right – once it has been pointed out. They are giving clear and powerful articulation to notions that are already familiar because we’ve been circling them ourselves, possibly for years, without quite ever being able to close in on them properly.  

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We operate with a false picture of genius when we identify it too strongly with what is exotic and utterly beyond us. It is something far more provocative than this. Genius is what we all can be when we pay careful attention to what is truly passing through consciousness. We all have very similar and very able minds; where geniuses differ is in their more robust inclinations to study them properly. 

 Here are six surprising tasks that boost your brainpower, make learning easier, and put you on the road to greatness !

1. Train Your Memory

A professor at the University of California, Irvine, Susanne Jaeggi found that an activity known as the n-back task increases fluid intelligence, which is the ability to reason and solve  new problems independent of previous knowledge. The n-back game  challenges participants to keep track of spoken words or locations on a grid, and identify when a letter or grid location is repeated. N-back  training, which is available for free online, can help improve memory and problem-solving skills.

2. Open Yourself To New Points of View

Another  way to increase your intelligence is to expand your network and  consider other people’s points of view. The exercise will open your mind  to new opportunities and promote cognitive growth. Learning is the act  of exposing yourself to new information, and meeting new people  facilitates the process, especially when the viewpoints conflict with  your own.

3. Find Motivation

Uncommon  achievement takes a source of motivation, says Shenk. “You have to want  it, want it so bad you will never give up, so bad that you are ready to  sacrifice time, money, sleep, friendships, even your reputation,” he  writes in The Genius in All of Us.Motivation can be  conscious or unconscious, and can spring from a variety of sources,  including inspiration, desperation, revenge, or future regret.

4. Do Cardiovascular Workouts

Cardiovascular fitness can raise your verbal intelligence and improve long-term memory, Increased cardiovascular fitness was associated with better cognitive scores. In contrast, muscular strength was only weakly associated with intelligence.

5. Play Video Games

While  it looks like a good way to waste time, video gaming can actually  stimulate the growth of neurons and promote connectivity in the regions  of the brain responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation, and  strategic planning. 

6. Meditate

Mindful meditation can increase the neuroplasticity in the brain. Which helps to be calm and make decisions.

So hold on your thoughts, ideas – take them more seriously. Success is hidden in between them. 

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