Everybody wants to be good at what they you. Better yet, everybody wants and needs to prove to themselves that they are better than everybody else. At least most of us feel that way. Don’t you? We want to be more intelligent, wiser, smarter, a quick thinker, and brainier. But what if you were born with a particular level of IQ? Will you be content? At this day and age, you can already do something about your IQ. There are now means and ways to better yourself, maximize your brain power and increase your intelligence.
1. Brainstorming. When you brainstorm, you think of something and try to come up with as many connections as you can with that something you first thought of. But this time, instead of thinking just one thing at first, you come up with two very different things like salt and grasshopper for instance. Then, you think of as many connections as you can between the two objects. This will extend your imagination and sever the critical ability that hampers the flow of ideas.
2. A bit of relaxing and flexing. This will help enhance your ability to do better at processing mental tasks. For students who are taking exams for instance, flex and relax your muscles at least 30 minutes before the exam. This will boost your concentration and ability in solving puzzles and very difficult problems by 25%.
3. Spell it away. This is more like doing some mind-mapping. If you have a particular goal or concern and it seems very hard to see the solution at the end of the tunnel, spell it out. Try to make a web of ideas making connections and sense of everything. This way, you see the answers to you problems more clearly.
4. Novel activity is good. Whether it’s getting into a new sport, a new hobby or learning a new language, it helps form new dendrites in your brain cells. They are those stems that aide in memory. Strengthening dendrite connections boost memory power and increase IQ in the process.
5. Let’s get physical. Doing aerobic exercises is a tool in enhancing your fluid intelligence (learning something new). It aides your frontal lobes in storing and processing information like advanced planning and quick decision making. At least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise a week should do the trick.
6. Visiting dreamland. Make sure you get a good night’s sleep. Being able to rest your brain for a good full eight hours of sleep helps revitalize your brain functioning. Doing this everyday will definitely give your brain power a boost because you allow your brain to repair the damaged cells and tissues, repair the pyche, and improve your overall mental performance the next day. So avoid drinking coffee a few hours before bed time. You may drink milk instead.
7. Walking, just like any other exercise, increases one’s intake of oxygen. The more oxygen your brain has, the better it can perform. Do this for at least 45 minutes three time a week. You will find that you become more energetic, you can multitask easily and you feel less sluggish and lazy.
8. It is in the early hours of the morning that your brain is at its sharpest level. Use this time wisely by getting a lot of things done. Tackle the more important and difficult things and save the easy ones for later.
9. Chunk your meals. Eating every few hours provide your body and your brain needed nutrients without bombarding your system with sugar. When you eat huge amounts at a time, the sugar you consume goes to your stomach and away from your brain where it is needed the most.
10. Have Vitamin B at the ready. This can be found in chicken, oats, tuna, whole wheat and bananas. They help manufacture and repair damaged brain tissues and help in improving your memory too.
