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@Nahm Oops, meant to post this link http://www.businessinsider.com/5-of-albert-einsteins-thought-experiments-that-revolutionized-science-2016-7//?r=AU&IR=T/#imagine-youre-chasing-a-beam-of-a-light-1

@NoSelfSelf Here's a good one.

Look into Social Science. That's a fun rabbit hole. But you ask about experiences, the best thing to do would be to go to the old folks home and ask if you can interview them. You have some real eye-opening experiences doing that.

@Vingger I think he's talking about his experiencing physical death trip report.

Run headfirst into discomfort. All discomfort. That being said, don't do stuff that's obviously stupid.

Communism on paper sounds great. But it is not feasible. It's actually a very high consciousness system, it is so advanced I don't think we'll be able to achieve a healthy communist system with our current cultural climate at all. It also needs some work, communism is based on a victim narrative. That needs to go. Sharing the means of production and eliminating privately owned property would probably require a fully enlightened society. Marx and the rest of his merry band are so possessed by their ideological vision that they couldn't see society as a whole was not ready for it. I'm not in favour of communism, at least in our time. I think a shift will occur when we become so productive unemployment for a large majority becomes inevitable. Jobs being replaced by machines will slowly phase out lots of professions. And if computers ever learn how to write their own code, you can say goodbye to every programmer ever. At that point, we'll be forced to redistribute wealth to those who no longer have employable skills just so they survive. The only way to avoid that future is to continue to invest in tech. We'll need to create jobs at the same rate they get phased out. How we do that is beyond little old me.

I see a lot of mask-wearing going on around here. People write about their enlightenment experience one day then terrorize the serious emotional problems section the next. I'm guilty of doing similar things. I think it is a product of people doing some of the things you mentioned. Too much forum browsing and video watching and not enough contemplating. For as much as we preach about self-deception, we fall into that trap all the time.

@BjarkeT You are relentless. Saying "if we are talking about iq and not intelligence how come intelligence be a part of iqs name: Intelligence quotient" is like saying "If humans came from monkeys why do we still have monkeys?". IQ tests are designed to assess human intelligence. Exactly. Assessing something is like drawing a portrait of a face. The drawing is not the face, the drawing is just lines of graphite on paper that resemble a face when looked at as a whole. Do you see?

@BjarkeT Once again, IQ is not a holistic approach to intelligence. Intelligence, in its entirety, is immeasurable. We are talking about IQ, not intelligence, make that distinction. Perhaps. Intelligence as a whole leaves plenty of room for nuance. But since we are talking about IQ, maybe you should look at how we actually calculate IQ. Your age is literally a factor. IQ = (Mental Age x 100) / Chronological Age I never said it was fixed. I said we don't know of any really good ways to INCREASE it for an individual. You can certainly lower it. A good hit to the head with a brick or getting drunk enough is obviously going to affect your IQ. Intelligence, holistically, is immeasurable. So saying it can be increased only half makes sense. You see? We've been arguing from two different sets of assumptions this whole time.

@BjarkeT It seems we aren't even talking about the same thing anymore. The OP asked how we can increase IQ. You didn't answer that. You actually answered a different question.

@BjarkeT You literally quoted Cal Newport saying IQ cannot be improved through practice. Yes, higher levels of focus will probably improve your results on an IQ test. That does not mean focus = intelligence. It more than likely means that you were most efficiently utilizing your potential for intelligence, and therefore you have scored higher. @Salvijus That article doesn't even mention IQ at all. Used your control+f method to see that. They reported increased mental clarity and concentration, which is not IQ, it is something else. You must understand IQ is a clinical, hard-nosed term. Your IQ doesn't change until you measure it because it is just that, a measurement. IQ first and foremost is a model of intelligence, it is not intelligence itself. The map is not the territory. I am open to the possibility IQ or some other sort of general intelligence can be increased, I'm actually inclined to think it can be. We just haven't found a reliable way to increase it (in a lab setting) yet. I'm not saying that lab experiments are the only way we can increase IQ, nor am I saying that yogic methods etc are baloney. I'm saying we have insufficient data to draw a conclusion that works for everybody all the time. If something works for you, by all means, use it.

Might be hard to find people in person, not that many people on this forum unfortunately It would be fun to join a group call with you though! I'll start a separate thread if anyone is interested in a weekly call group.

@Salvijus That study has nothing to do with IQ. They said other authors reported increases in IQ, not this study. Check their 9th reference for your IQ related research, that's who they referred to. Also, only 9 participants in the study. Not very representative of the general population.

@Outer You just mistook the map for the territory. IQ is a measurement of an IQ test, not intelligence. And what IQ tests measure is only a part of intelligence.

@BjarkeT Note that only 1 of the people you mentioned is a psychologist, and second that these types of publications are not peer-reviewed in the traditional sense. This is not to take away from their value, they just don't fall into the same category of academia I mentioned. IQ is not the same as "deep work". IQ is not much more than a measurement taken from an IQ test. Real intelligence cannot be enclosed in a theory, see Leo's latest video about that. So if you want to increase IQ, what you actually want to increase is a score on a test. It is a test that cannot be studied for, there is no deliberate practice. Sure you can 'practice' IQ tests, but what you're really doing is remembering solutions to unique problems. You might make a little bit of progress finding general trends in IQ tests and observing the deceptive nature of some of the questions but that is about it. It is not enough to increase your results by more than a point or two. We're talking about IQ, not intelligence.

In regards to scientific literature, we haven't really found good ways to increase IQ measurably. But we do know good nutrition and exercise (specifically strength training) is very effective in combatting the decline of your IQ as you age.

Why does that disturb you?

Applying the word simple to god is like calling a thought green.

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Because included in infinity is a reality where consciousness is not aware of the subconscious.

@Ibn Sina Hitler was quite good with people... There were certainly people who wanted what he wanted who worked with him, they didn't fight with each other until they'd already lost. The SS is an example.

@Ibn Sina what if a person's character is genocidal? Should they find their herd so they can all get together and scheme? Are you sure? What if it was possible to feel good no matter who you were with?

Practice writing Using this template. It's made for writing essays, but you could follow the same steps for even a couple sentences.

@Gligorije LOL! Good luck finding the magic pill then, you don't realise that what you're looking for is what we've all told you. Learn to code or fix cars or something if you must have some "grind", but more importantly, find your life purpose. What's the point of grinding for something (that is what you want right?) if you don't know if you're aiming at the right thing?

@PhilGR I don't know what is good for you. Do your best to figure it out the best you can, and fast. What do you parents think about Greece? Your teachers? What's the general attitude towards the problem? I have a feeling that if most people in Greece don't think the situation is going to change for the better, they might be right. I'd be careful about watching the news, specifically greek news, you don't know what kind of biases or scandals are going on behind the scenes. The best advice I could offer is to try to find similar events in history compared to what is happening in Greece now, and see how they end. If they don't end too bad, maybe it's okay to stay, if they end in catastrophe, well, it's up to you what to do in that case.