Your IQ, which stands for Intelligence Quotient, is a scientific assessment of your intelligence derived from standardized tests

that measure problem solving abilities, spatial imagery, memory, general knowledge, and other factors. While there are limits based on native intelligence levels, recent studies have shown that it's possible to increase your intelligence. We'll show you some ways to make this happen.

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Play logic/strategy games. In 2008, scientists Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl devised a method that would increase "fluid intelligence"the ability to draw connections between things, solve problems, and adapt to new situations. By having test subjects pay attention to two different streams of information, they found they exhibited a significant gain in reasoning abilities.[1]

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Brain Exercises Improve Memory and Attention with Brain Games by Scientists www.lumosity.com A game based on this study using dual n-back tasks can be found athttp://www.soakyourhead.com/dual-n-back.aspx. Expand your boundaries. Just like sitting at your desk all day is bad for your physical self, 2 sitting in the same mental seat all the time is bad for your brain. To break out of that, make it a lifelong goal to continually learn new things. This can be as simple as a new way to drive to work, or a novelty such as bungee jumping, or devoting some part of your life to becoming an excellent painter. The "what" is not as important as the actual doing. New experiences trigger a release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which increases neurons and create a sense of pleasure.[2] The more you learn, the more you'll know, and your intelligence will grow as a result. Take risks with your brain. Have you become a Scrabble master, able toss out 40-point words 3 even when your rack looks like EEIOAUC? Fine, congratulations. Now go become a Sudoku master. When you reach that goal, move on. Become a Go master, or chess expert. Once you become good at a particular skill, your brain stops working as hard. It doesn't expend the resources, or trigger that dopamine rush that helps make you smarter. Feel free to continue to wallop the competition in Scrabble, but keep finding new "brain games" to explore. Think of new ways to do old things. If you drive to work every day, and every day you take 4 the same road, it becomes routineeven if it's an hour-long commute. You get to know every turn, every pothole, every bottleneck, every red light, and every speed trap. It becomes so commonplace that you stop paying attention to it. You stop thinking. Anything you do by rote will curtail your thinking process. Break that habit. For example, find a different way to work each day. Some ways may take a few minutes longer, some may be shorter. Do it on the way home, and you don't have to worry about being late! If like to write by creating a draft longhand first, then entering it into the computer when done, try entering each day's work as you go. You may discover something about your writing, or about a character, that you didn't realize as you wrote it out. Anything that shakes up your mechanical approach to something is a potential rut to break away from. Expose yourself. Be active in your community, with social media, and with the world around 5 you. The more you are involved with other people, with other opinions, and other ideas, the more you will learn. You may not always agree with what you learn or find out, but by challenging your preconceived notions, you will either strengthen your own beliefs, or adapt, grow, and adopt new beliefs based on new information. Be observant. Part of "being smart" is being aware of things at a higher level, and 6 understanding (or developing an understanding of) the correlations among what might otherwise seem to be disparate or random events. For example, you see that two cars, heading in the opposite direction, collided head-on. Thinking simply, one could say "oops, accidents happen," and leave it at that. If you expand your observation, you may discover meta-factors that created the conditions that led to the crash: ice on the road may have caused one car to lose traction; perhaps the two cars were heading the opposite direction on a

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one-way street. Or perhaps there was a dog in one car who, excited by the sight of a dog on the side of the road, jumped onto the driver's lap; the driver lost control, and hit the other car. Expansive observations can be to more productive areas as wellarchitecture, art, and astronomy, for example, and that's just starting with the the As! 7. Listen to classical music. The Mozart effect have show that by listening to classical music for 7 only 10 minutes, a short-term improvement of eight or nine points can be measured. This could have a longer-term effect, but may take somebody with a large IQ to prove it! 8. Exercise. Keeping your body fit as well as your mind is a greatand scientifically provenway 8 to enhance brain power. 9. Read voraciously. Reading enhances the mind's ability to comprehend, as well as 9 encouraging you to think critically. Reading a book that you have never read before broadens your horizons, thus increasing your IQ. Reading different genres is even more productive, as well as reading newspapers, current events magazines, multi-content periodicals (such as the New Yorker), even technical manuals. Make sure the book is in your reading level. Reading something that is too easy for you doesn't do anything but entertain, and while you may increase your IQ by reading a novel beyond your reading level, constantly referring to a dictionary will sap the joy out of reading. 10.Perseverance furthers. Ignore limiting stereotypes such as "An old dog cannot learn new 10 tricks." Imagine the success you will feel when you bump your IQ score up ten points! Like anything else, your brain functions better when used. Actively exercising your brain has even been linked to staving off problems such as Alzheimer's Disease.[3] 11. Write whenever possible. Send a note instead of an email, or write a draft of a paper (or an 11 outline) in longhand versus on your computer. It will increase visual and kinesthetic stimulation. Try writing with your non-dominant hand. Writing with your opposite hand can, in fact, lead to stimulation of the side of the brain that is opposite to that hand. So perhaps a southpaw could go righty and think more logically, or a righty could try going left-handed to be more creative. Keep in mind this is only a hypothesis, but worth exploring. 12.Play video games. Games can be a great way to stimulate the brain. Try to play a game 12 that is out of your usual range of choices. It will help you think differently. Especially look for games that provide you with problems to solve or force you to think quickly. Scientific studies have shown that playing the popular game Tetris leads to more efficient brain activity; as players become more proficient at the game, their brains show a reduced consumption of glucose (the body's main fuel).[4] The conclusions of this study point out that glucose consumption is reduced when learning has taken place. This would be expected as when a person becomes more proficient in any activity, the effort required decreases. When playing first person shooter games, try to get into the atmosphere, look at details, think every move as if it were real. This way you don't mindlessly finish the game, and you stimulate the brain to think more than just using reflexive actions. 13.Work on challenging your brain in new ways. Try cryptology, for example. This is when a 13 message is written in codes and you try to figure it out. It's challenging for some, but after a while may even become enjoyable. All logic puzzles are great. Do logic and lateral thinking puzzles. These help you explore new areas, and solve problems in different ways. Practice crosswords and sudoku. These activities stimulate your mind and thought processes. People may not normally consider word searches thought-provoking, but if practiced in addition to other mind games, they could prove to be easy and stimulating. 14.Keep track of your progress. Take a weekly IQ test and record your results. If you would 14 like to view your improvements, consider placing the results on a line graph using Excel or another graph-compatible spreadsheet program. (See external links for a free, tested online IQ test). Bear in mind that many online IQ tests are not legitimate, and many ask for a mobile number at the end for the results. These are spam. The IQ quiz that could be considered the true IQ quiz is the StanfordBinet and is the only true IQ test accepted by universities. 15.Excel in school and have a better career. There is a huge amount of evidence 15 substantiating the correlation between excellent grades and better intelligence. Good grades are the path to better careers and better ways of life. Scientific encephalopathy case studies show that the brains of sophisticated professionals are anatomically larger, healthier and having more prominent convolutions, whereas the labour workers

have much thinner neocortex, implicating lower than average intelligence. This is because the labourers do not use their brains often. Intense learning which is required by many challenging, professional careers can certainly trigger neurogenesis and improve brain's cognitive capacity.