What can you do right now to become smarter?
Simple: by following a few easy steps, we can increase (and educate) our level of intelligence and cleverness:
1) Recognize where we really are in terms of wisdom by honestly analyzing our lifestyle, thoughts, words, actions, and the actual results of our actions.
2) Change our diet and replace animal products and sugar with nutritious, high-quality foods that are plant-based or predominantly plant-based, produced and processed without the use of pesticides and other poisons, which are abundant in supermarket foods.
Changing where we shop and using the market instead of stores is a smart thing to do for our health, which in turn increases our wisdom.
3) Cultivating gratitude for what we have that is useful, for the good things we receive in life, and for seemingly simple things such as sunrise and sunset, healthy food, good clothes, roads without traffic accidents, fresh coffee in the morning, and uplifting associations.
4) Simple physical exercises for 10-15 minutes every morning, and whenever we feel sad, depressed, apathetic, and unmotivated. A reasonable number of push-ups can lift our spirits and definitely help us feel better.
5) Of course, reading books on psychology, science, personal development, and cultivating practical skills.
6) Cultivating and using elevated topics of conversation with whom and when possible, and limiting the volume and topics of conversation with others to what is strictly necessary, and offering, in a polite tone, opinions and things that bring zero information primarily about oneself, but also about things that are useless and that we do not truly master, in daily conversations with others.
7) It is important to spend time reading the books of wise people, and to ask their advice whenever possible, and, more importantly, to follow their advice exactly.
8) Never think we are smarter than others, but also never think we are much less wise than most of the people around us. Arrogance and unnecessary pride are signs of stupidity, and underestimating others is of little use and, no matter what anyone says, is far from being a sign of maturity.
9) Prayer and good spirituality help us cultivate an anchor to things that cannot be seen, which will prove to be of great value and use, especially when things are not at all stable, encouraging, or predictable.
10) Watching psychological or detective films.
11) Living in the present, learning from the past, and then leaving the past behind.
12) Give up long-term and very long-term plans, and plan useful things that we want to do each day, and have as clear a vision as possible of how the week ahead will unfold.
It is pointless to dwell on many plans for the distant future because, as we probably know, things and people change over time.
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