342 things which increase intelligence

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This list is created from my personal research where I checked studies of many things and if they improve intelligence and focus. Some things are also from personal experience.

Keep in mind that this is a work in progress, and things can be changed or improved on this list, and more things can be added too.

This list simply aims to achieve effect of mass, so that many possibly beneficial things add up to a greater effect together.

1. Binaural beats
2. Isochronic beats
3. Meditation
4. Plenty of water
5. Logic puzzles and problem solving
6. Debates, debating, arguing
7. Logic in form of premises and conclusion
8. Masturbation, edging
9. Logical equations
10. Considering all options
11. Games
12. Natural sounds, birds, river, waves, ocean, fire
13. Food and drinks which increase intelligence
14. Memorization and repetition
15. Persistence
16. Effect of mass, Perfect amount of everything
17. Comedy
18. Learning new things. Doing research.
19. Learning general truth and observable facts
20. Learning logical axioms
21. Learning logical connections
22. Learning negations of logical connections
23. Learning general false claims
24. Learning logical fallacies
25. Making plans
26. Making goals
27. Learning what achieves goals
28. Learning what is useless for goals
29. Learning what is harmful for goals
30. Learning what is not harmful for goals
31. Deep proper breathing for a long time
32. Light therapy
33. Conversation
34. Stories
35. Poems and poetry
36. Cold showers
37. Prayer
38. Lists
39. Exercise
40. Reading smart text
41. Progressive muscle relaxation
42. Quality sleep
43. Tests. Test knowledge.
44. Be creative.
45. Writing
46. Learning a new language
47. Exploring new environments and situations
48. Step outside comfort
49. Expose to new ideas, information and thoughts
50. Reducing stress
51. Learning combinations
52. List of facts
53. Long list of things, notes, actions, games, sounds and apps for brain to focus on all
54. IQ tests
55. Word games
56. Memory games
57. Quick thinking games
58. Considering all options, list of options
59. Two premises and conclusion in all
60. Uncomfortable, tense situations
61. Seeking proof
62. Divination and magic
63. Only learn what you will remember
64. Exposing to opposite views, more options
65. Creating logical structures of text made from premises and conclusion
66. Pleasing games
67. Many types of games played which develop different things in brain
68. Questioning all premises
69. Questioning opposite premises
70. Learning different logical structures
71. Learn different goals, which goal to set, set goals, achieve goals
72. Learning what achieves goal, what doesnt achieve goal, what negates goal, what doesnt negate goal
73. Exposing unproven premises and assumptions, unmentioned premises and assumptions which conclusion depends on
74. Drink 900 milliliters of water at once. Variation. 3 to 5 liters of water per day.
75. Practice period of hunger
76. Dont practice period of thirst
77. Do calculations
78. Listen to fun music
79. Explore many topics and research about many topics
80. Extend your thinking to many areas of life
81. Create new truth
82. Write speeches
83. Learn about rhetoric
84. Read books about debating or about topics which you like
85. Read scientific research, statistics, probabilities, observations
86. Extend your view
87. Testing. Do experiments.
88. Think of solutions to difficult problems. Many problems.
89. Write down everything which is important. Memorize it. Study it.
90. Write long logical arguments and research
91. Dedicating lots of time to improve
92. Setting priorities, goals by importance
93. Rest and entertaining apps
94. Changes
95. Arguing for opposite views
96. Use full power of AI
97. Remove that which negates goal
98. Visualization
99. Plenty of small improvements lead to one big improvement, as long as their combination isnt harmful
100. Classical music
101. Read life hacks and tips for intelligence
102. Spaced repetition is best for learning
103. Smiling improves mood and intelligence
104. White noise sounds for intelligence. Brown, pink and grey noise works too.
105. Book summaries by AI or by apps, or by YouTube
106. Every day, remember the important things which happened that day. Improves memory.
107. Puzzle games
108. At least 1% better every day.
109. Drink water before sleep. Drink water when you wake up.
110. Body scan meditation
111. Dont do all at same time. Do one task at the time.
112. Build and write down vocabulary of things and logical connections
113. Card games, board games
114. Engage all 5 senses
115. Learning moves
116. Lots of sleep
117. Use opposite hand for writing
118. No multitasking. Focusing on one single task means that one task will be done the best.
119. Remove distractions
120. Visuospatial reasoning
121. Executive control
122. Relational skills
123. Combine binaural or isochronic with birds or wave sound, and with deep breathing, body scan or progressive muscle relaxation or logical tasks or games or visualization, and with 900 milliliters water.
124. Deductive reasoning
125. Inductive reasoning
126. Reading debates
127. Dont repeat tasks too much. Move to next task once one is completed.
128. Write down what to do
129. Write down what not to do
130. Think of questions. Look for questions.
131. Constant improvement. Improving all the time.
132. Use all available resources to improve.
133. One or two meals per day
134. Not peeing for some time, holding in pee improves focus
135. Watch educational documentaries
136. Take notes of things, of key points
137. Write essays
138. Attend lectures, learn from others
139. Study philosophy and morality
140. Improve reading speed
141. Develop emotional intelligence, understand emotions
142. Organize information in categories
143. Explore different cultures
144. Learn about nature and places
145. Solve riddles
146. Learn about programming
147. Practice lucid dreaming
148. Play strategy games
149. Improve creativity
150. Use learning apps
151. Track your progress towards goal
152. Practice Tai Chi
153. Isolate yourself from others for some time
154. Practice drawing
155. Dance
156. Study history of things
157. Work on your health
158. Improve typing speed
159. Improve writing speed
160. Make statistics, percentages, probabilities and comparisons from data
161. Do pleasurable activities
162. Organize all things in categories
163. Birds sound plus waves sound, or just one of these at the time
164. Period of eating and period of fasting. Dont eat for 16 hours.
165. Get proteins, all vitamins, omega 3, chocolate, milk
166. Take tests over and over until success
167. Drink green tea, coffee, with water168. Learn to play a musical instrument
169. Change daily routine
170. Research what improves intelligence
171. System first mentality for reaching goal. Create systems.
172. Constant desire for knowledge
173. Constant sustainable progress
174. Challenge yourself with new challenges
175. Make space for new thoughts
176. List negative and neutral things and remove them or modify them to positive
177. Have a list of best books for improvement
178. List positive things and increase them
179. Set goal to be the best
180. Set obstacles which take effort to overcome, and then overcome them
181. High frequency and high duration of work on improvement
182. Never stop moving towards goal. Moving faster towards goal is always better.
183. Break down path into steps towards goal
184. Focus on measurable and observable results
185. Prioritize tasks which bring you fastest to goal, remove tasks which dont bring you to goal
186. Prioritize quality over quantity, but have quantity too
187. Stop doing meaningless things, only do that which improves you the most
188. Plan your rest
189. Invest in technology and devices which you use to improve yourself
190. Learn about survival strategies
191. Learn what improves your survival and health
192. Learn about all types of science
193. Learn scientific methods of observation and repeatable results
194. Spend time in nature, in forest
195. Read comments
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196. Play creative games
197. Repeat task until you master it. Repeat sometimes after to keep being master of it.
198. Copying text by hand writing
199. Download apps which give you important facts
200. Spaced repetition, pauses between repetition. Longer and longer pauses between repetition.
201. Memorize by reading and repeating, then pause for some time, then repeating and reading.
202. To learn a new language, learn logical connectives of it, and learn questions, and learn most common words such as I, You, We, They...
203. Write words and sentences in new language.
204. Act, not react
205. Predict measurable consequences of actions
206. Write down new words which you learned from new language and repeat them. Gradually expand list of words which you write down and memorize, and repeat often with pauses.
207. Coloring
208. Memorize songs
209. Reduce negative news
210. Have one day a week when you are lazy and when you rest
211. Lift your head and focus between your eyebrows
212. Use opposite hand more often
213. Take 5 minute breaks every 25 to 30 minutes
214. Singing
215. Play chess, mahjong, sorting games, competitive games, quick reaction games
216. Connect the dots games, one line drawing, blockudoku, solve creative problems
217. If you get undesired results, you only need to change tactics or way or approach
218. Have no fear of failure
219. Make as much effort as possible
220. Remove beliefs which hold you back
221. Reduce boredom and find entertainment in becoming smarter, set entertaining goals
222. Step away from improving when needed to restore energy or when feeling overwhelmed, but return to improving when you recover
223. Limit the time set for working on specific task
224. Do the most unpleasant tasks first, save entertaining ones for last
225. Create daily list of tasks. Make it realistic and achievable.
226. Test all your skills constantly.
227. Look for sites with sounds which increase intelligence
228. Seek for truth by listing all options and eliminating the impossible
229. Travel
230. Deep and slow breathing increase intelligence
231. Test different volumes of sounds which increase intelligence
232. Have dictionary of words and dictionary of sentences
233. Dont smoke, dont drink alcohol, dont do drugs
234. Become vegetarian
235. Repeat, read, repeat often enough to learn, but not too often
236. White rain noise
237. If you fail, it just means you need to change tactics. If you have a goal and if you fail to achieve it, try a different way. You only need to try a different way. Keep changing ways until you find one which works. Change ways and keep changing ways until one way succeeds.
238. Write list of things you have accomplished, what you have accomplished
239. Anticipate regrets, what you regret tells you what you value
240. Think what would have happened if you acted differently.
241. Accept your mistakes, learn from them and make proper amends
242. Learn from past, learn from history, but also learn from present
243. Practice responding to text, learning from text, saving key points
244. Learn to play favorite song on piano
245. Sudoku, jigsaw puzzles
246. Semen retention boosts brain power. No lust or lust thoughts.
247. Set daily time limit for certain work activities
248. Think of some positive thoughts when you wake up
249. Take tests over and over. Learn what fails to learn what will succeed.
250. List of general facts and general arguments
251. Garden and farming
252. Learn to control emotions
253. As long as you dont give up, you have a chance to win. Once you give up, the chance to win is lost.
254. Keep trying until success. Eliminate bad ways. There is no failure. There is only elimination of failed ways.
255. Gathering more information enables better decisions
256. Mindfulness, active listening, and reflective practices
257. Seeking feedback from others
258. Identify areas which need improvement the most
259. Careful, logical and detailed planning when making plans
260. Create habits through reward system
261. Dont avoid challenges, dont give up easily when faced with obstacle. Challenges are opportunity to learn.
262. Focus on making effort and creating ways to goal
263. Learn from success and failure of others
264. Set clearly defined goals, set achievable goals
265. Persisting through failure, even if there is plenty of failure
266. Take as many as possible opportunities to learn
267. Read summaries of plenty of different books
268. Understand reasons for things, root of things
269. Repeat before sleep what needs to be memorized
270. Do something new over and over again. Plenty of new things every day. Dont stay within the limits of what you know.
271. Cold showers improve brain and mood
272. Banana, green tea, orange juice, chocolate, tuna, spinach, eggs
273. Glass of wine per day. No more. No less.
274. Never listen to frequency under 15 hz
275. Frequency of ocean waves sound is 14 to 30. Frequency of bird singing is 1000 to 8000.Frequency of wolves howling is 150 to 1000, frequency of rainfall sound is 700 to over 1000.
276. Frequency of 15 to 40 and of 40 to 100 and of 1000 and over helps with intelligence
277. Aim for 15 to 100 brain waves frequency, scientifically proven.
278. Avoid sounds of under 15 hz, and those of 200 to 600 hz.
Only 15 to 100 hz is scientifically confirmed.
279. Ancient Sanskrit mantras
280. Use pleasure and reward system, so that brain associates pleasure with intelligence increasing activities
281. Frequencies: 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 66, 70, 80, 90, 99, 100
282. Full dedication to activity, long time of dedication
283. Curiosity and open mindedness, new experiences, exploring
284. See connections between ideas
285. Challenge tradition
286. Intense focus on goals combined with flexibility and adaptation
287. Within any sufficiently complex formal system, there are true statements that cannot be proven within the system itself
288. Ask AI to recommend you books. Ask AI for summary of one book, so it gives you key points. Then ask AI to tell you more about those points.
289. Rethinking, testing something over and over
290. Learning organizations
291. Seek information which supports theory and which challenges theory
292. No fixed mindset. Not sticking to same.
293. Activities that engage all the senses
294. Over 10,000 hours of practice
295. Individuals who start with an advantage or have an advantage now are likely to accumulate more advantages over time
296. Begin with the end in mind
297. Prioritize most important things
298. Win win situations where multiple possible outcomes all benefit you, multiple possible benefits from action
299. Training imagination and fantasy helps science
300. Smart and funny movies, series, cartoons, anime, books, videos...
301. Create many ways to achieve goal
302. Cost to effect ratio. Achieve more with less.
303. Vivere Militare Est principle
304. Frequencies 67, 66.6, 100 with 66.6, 33.4
305. Set specific time limit to do certain activity
306. Learn everything. Learn about everything.
307. Write down everything you do, everything you own and have, everything you think.
308. Listen to the combination of instrument such as flute playing, many birds, waves, rain, gradual increase in volume
309. Combined effects of plenty of water, 600 milliliters every hour, water after waking up, water before going to sleep, hunger, semen retention, holding in pee, deep breathing, meditation, mindfulness
310. Listen to combination of binaural or isochronic with white noise, flute, many birds, waves, rain, storm
311. Difficult but not too difficult games
312. Change is the only path to improvement
313. Music of Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi
314. Music which forces you to think
315. Silence forces you to think
316. Distractions make you unable to think
317. Invest in high quality headphones
318. Understand conditions and exceptions
319. Sounds can change the structure of the water which you drink
320. Remember to always set the best goals linked to increasing intelligence
321. To maintain effort, you need to believe that you are winning or that you will suffer more if you give up
322. Use combined effect of many things where each such thing achieves goal or helps achieve goal.
323. Use best combination of effects in which all effects achieve goal or move closer towards goal.
324. If each thing pushes one step closer towards goal, then many such things will push much more towards goal as long as they dont negate each other.
325. Learning to cook
326. Consistency of goals and priorities
327. There is always a chance, a hidden way.
328. Avoid closed systems of information. Open systems of information are always superior, much better.
329. If information remains true while being constantly tested for correctness, then its probability of being true becomes higher
330. Switching quickly between ideas, but also coming back to ideas and developing them
331. Open system of information seeks information, but also seeks to increase number of sources, so that information can flow in from anywhere freely.
332. Set effort and change as your goals
333. Increase tension
334. Tell people what to do instead of what not to do
335. System based on constantly working to achieve something
336. Pay attention to details. Details matter.
337. Learning how to create statistics and data from large collection of facts.
338. Drinking water every hour to prevent dehydration. Dehydration harms intelligence.
339. Keeping consistent logical system by which you work with
340. Finding ways to achieve goals. Many ways. Many goals.341. Practice logical commands and programming
342. Premises and conclusion where both premises are observable facts.

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Here is the list if you are interested in it.

Some things repeat on the list because I forgot I mentioned them before.
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Hmmm . .  looking through the list I noticed these items that I have questions about:

8. Masturbation, edging - Was this one personal experience or did you have a study?
62. Divination and magic - Is this the same as praying?
81. Create new truth - What does this mean? 
134. Not peeing for some time, holding in pee improves focus - Is this another personal experience?
246. Semen retention boosts brain power. No lust or lust thoughts. - This contradicts #8

This is an incredible list!  Thanks for sharing!!
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8. Masturbation, edging - Was this one personal experience or did you have a study?
Most studies I found about it have talked of benefits in reducing depression and improving brain health and even extending life expectancy. But some studies have said that some people are harmed by masturbation. So there are contradictive studies about this. It seems that masturbation works for most, but not for all, which is why I have also included semen retention. Now, semen retention has positive effects on those people who are harmed by masturbation, where too much masturbation leads to decrease in productivity. So speaking in terms of time, time used for masturbation can instead be used for some better activity, if masturbation is becoming a problem. Now, some people have said they gained benefits of semen retention, even tho I couldnt really find a study which can confirm that its better in most cases.

62. Divination and magic - Is this the same as praying?
Praying reduces suicide rates and helps with depression, which indirectly helps with motivation for work on intelligence.
Now, divination makes you aware of possible life outcomes, which helps creativity and makes person more aware and thinking.
Magic, many people dont believe in magic, but even if magic is not real, it also helps with creativity.
Creativity is an important part of intelligence, because it helps people come up with more ideas, which improves reasoning.

Create new truth - What does this mean?
I meant thinking of something or discovering something which no one knew about before. Kinda like developing original ideas and inventions.

Not peeing for some time, holding in pee improves focus - Is this another personal experience?
Yes, and it comes with drinking plenty of water. Now, there are some studies which suggest that when holding in, person is more focused, time passes slower and thinking becomes quicker and person enters natural state of mindfulness where focus is on the present. Meditation also focuses on present, so holding in pee for some time can be similar to mindfulness meditation experience.
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Yes, and it comes with drinking plenty of water. Now, there are some studies which suggest that when holding in, person is more focused, time passes slower and thinking becomes quicker and person enters natural state of mindfulness where focus is on the present. Meditation also focuses on present, so holding in pee for some time can be similar to mindfulness meditation experience.
It usually makes be do the "pee-pee dance" when I'm trying to focus on something.  Maybe it is an exercise inducer?

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It usually makes be do the "pee-pee dance" when I'm trying to focus on something.  Maybe it is an exercise inducer?
Well, it most certainly adds some entertainment, even tho I wouldnt recommend holding in too long. Like, 10 minutes is probably enough.
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Remember what actor Ernest Borgnine who lived 95 years said what was his key to longevity?
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Here is the list if you are interested in it.

Some things repeat on the list because I forgot I mentioned them before.
Is that a selective list where people can pick and choose how intelligent they want to be?
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Is that a selective list where people can pick and choose how intelligent they want to be?
Yes, kinda. The more you put in effort, the better the results, usually.
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Is that a selective list where people can pick and choose how intelligent they want to be?
Yes, kinda. The more you put in effort, the better the results, usually.
It will take a good memory to just recall the 324 items on the list.

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It will take a good memory to just recall the 324 items on the list.
The list is growing every day by at least few items. But people can pick the ones they find most interesting, to increase chances of not giving up.
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Remember what actor Ernest Borgnine who lived 95 years said what was his key to longevity?
Yes. Plus, living longer means more time to learn. Its a win win.

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Remember what actor Ernest Borgnine who lived 95 years said what was his key to longevity?
Yes. Plus, living longer means more time to learn. It’s a win win.
We just heard Jimmy Carter died at 100 years old. But he was a one term president. People didn’t think he was smart enough.
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You own a peanut farm, don't you?
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You own a peanut farm, don't you?
No I don’t own a peanut farm , but jimmy Carter did.