During the human history, having
increased intellectual capacity has been one of the features which
distinguished between successful people and ordinary ones. Even nowadays, the
intelligence is the one which makes the difference between people. You can probably
guess, the intelligent persons have a bigger capacity for learning and
observing things, which prompts them towards higher positions in the society
and implicitly, better paid jobs. The amount of intelligence one possesses is
measured through specific tests. Their results are oftener referred to by
scientists as intelligence quotient.
The intelligence quotient, or IQ, is
measured by using the formula 100 X (mental age/chronological age). Most
people’s intelligence quotient is somewhere around 100, but there are also
people who have lower IQ (especially those persons who have suffered some kind
of traumas in their past or who suffer from a mental condition) or higher IQ
(those people considered to be geniuses). In this latter category, important
scientific people can be included, such as Albert Einstein, who had an IQ of
170 and Isaac Newton, whose IQ is said to be not less than 200.
It is necessary to mention that the
value of your IQ is not something you are born with.
Rather, your intelligence increases with time. Thus, the older you get, the
more intelligent you become. Yet, in addition to age, the IQ is also directly
proportional with the amount of time spent and effort made in order to train
your brain. As you probably know, in order to be capable of learning more and
have a higher IQ, you should train your brain continuously. Training means do a
lot of reading and problem solving.
There are people claiming that you can
only learn a specific amount of information and that if you try to overwork your
brain, it will fail to accumulate any new information. This is a false
assumption. Moreover, the more you train your brain, by reading, solving
different problems and playing mind games, the more chances you have to rapidly
and significantly increase your IQ.
In addition to that, there are other
factors which can contribute to the continuous increase of IQ, such as food,
physical movement and a healthy lifestyle.
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