50 Ways To Becoming Incredibly Smart

By

Raphael E. Samson

By

Raphael E. Samson

The word Smart has a lot of meaning.

© 2015 by Raphael Samson. All Rights Reserved.

50 Ways To Becoming Incredibly Smart

Acknowledgement

© 2015 by Raphael Samson. No part of this publication maybe reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted inany means, without the express written permission of the authoremail: raphaelsamson06@gmail.com.

I owe so much gratitude to everyone who inspired me one way or the other in the writing of this book. I so much appreciate the workings of the internet in conducting my research and getting my reports for my book. I would also specifically like to appreciate those people whose names may or may not have been mentioned in this book. MostImportantly I would want to appreciate my Creator for the drive and the charisma given me to write this book. I Thank You All.

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to everyone around the world who/whom is/are determined in improving his/her knowledge or broaden his/her scope of thinking and acting.

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To all those you want to become smart.

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Foreword

The word Smart has a lot of different meanings it alldepends on the kind of dictionary you use but I havegot a few meanings of my own from a dictionary I amusing currently these are a few of the meanings of theword SMART: Smart means Elegant and Stylish.

Smart means Demonstrating Intelligence; wise, clever or ingenious

Raphael Samson

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Introduction

This is pretty much unexpected of me, writing a bookabout how people can become incredibly smart. It must be said smart people are known not to place all their cards on the table, but I am determined to break the norm and share the secrets to becoming incredibly smart not just the secrets it’s the 50 ways to becoming incredibly smart.

This book is made available to anyone interested inreading and wanting to become incredibly smart. If you are the smart type there is no problem in becomingincredibly smart, while if you are not the smart type youcan read and become smart then continue following the steps and can become incredibly smart. I (The Author) did not write this book so you (The reader/owner) should read, study, learn and become smart so you can use it to con anyone or use the knowledge gotten through the use of this book forany bad/evil purposes. I( The Author) won’t be pleased. Help your friends, families and colleagues after becoming incredibly smart. Thanks.

Raphael Samson

Author

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I do not know if to write this book in chapters or present or layout how to be incredibly smart. But whatever way I choose to use I hope it suffice and also hopes it catches on. Generally, I would as much as love to give it in steps like stating the do’s and don’ts the be’s and but’s etcetera. Let me start by outlining the don’ts on what not to do to become

incredibly smart.

Don’t always be number One.

I know this might sound stupid but it’s the reality except you are a really hardworking type. There are a lot of credits and even more knocks that comes with being number one, being number one might give one a lot of room to rest and that is kind of what is called complacency in some fields. Let me give a bit of example of being too complacent when at the top has done to some tech companies e.g a top smartphone company was once like the leading lady in every guy’s heart or the most sought after guy in University for the ladies; but that love story didn’t last long or it didn’t end well to say.

This unmentioned(for fear of litigation) tech company can’t get everything they ever wanted, instead of doing more research to please or pacify the users or customers they didn’t, so then came another tech

company who brought high-end smarter phones than the previously most sought after Company A devices and the rest is more or less like history. Till date Company A is finding it hard to be among the top three in the smartphone market. So my point here is for most people when up there you think you have got it all but wait a minute try tasking yourselves and make it seem like you are fighting to be the number one the knowledge you would amass doing this would and could make you smarter than you ever imagined.

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Don’t be afraid to Act.

This a lot of people can understand. When we are afraid to act or delay we do lose temporarily or permanently what we desire. Action needs courage and courage can make anyone smart. This is not the time to write or speak about courage you need to learn how to act before mustering courage to do things you or your peers are so scared of doing like walking to a pretty lady and asking for her name or stuck in a very sticky situation and possessing the calmness to act and become like a leader. These things you can be able to possess can make you smart or make people look really smart. So do not be afraid to act just as you won’t be scared of being smart.

Believe in yourself ( Courage).

The previous step I made reference to courage. According to my dictionary courage simply means a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear. That is courage; when you start believing in yourself then you would have one of the key qualities at your disposal to become incredibly smart. A smart person can never be afraid of taking risks or taking decisions that may or may not work, when such a person takes such a risk, when it works he/she is hailed as an hero but when he/she fails it is otherwise either to cast him/her out or still support them all of the way. In almost everything we do, we need to show some bottle(courage) be it in the medical, engineering, legal fields etcetera. We usually need some bottle(courage) to scale through or make us better at what we do.Courage have actually made most of us who we are today. Either way we need self-believe so if you don’t have start building one today.

The word bottle is a British term it actually means courage or no fear in American term.*

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Determination.

It is often said necessity is the mother of invention, so as determination can also lead to success. Whomever a successful person might be he/she must have been determined to succeed that is what brought about the person’s successes. Determination is another key thing everyone would need to become smart or as I like to put it incredibly smart. With determination anyone can achieve whatever he/she may want to achieve be it a Prime Minister, A President or a member of the British Parliament, an House of Representative member or the Richest man in the world. Whatever a person wants to become determination is key.

Perseverance.

This is a bit more like the previous way but to be incredibly smart you need to be persistent that is where perseverance comes into play. Perseverance which means persistent determination, when we are persistent enough the people we trouble or we ask of favours from would easily give in if we persistently disturb them day and night for what we want. Literally, with perseverance we can really become whomever we want to become but I would advise against becoming an evildoer. Now no matter what you might be facing it’s time to try some perseverance and see how it works.

Versatility is Creativity, Creativity is Knowledge.

Versatility can readily be defined as a variety of skilfulness while creativity is the ability to create, when we are creative we get more knowledge when we try to make things happen or sort something out(fix a problem) so those things or riddles make us really smart as it’s

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or less makes a more advanced learning curve so we can use as a stepping stone to broaden one’s knowledge. For example, I am really versatile I would not disclose all I can do now, but at the end of this book in the about the author’s page all I am able to do would be properly disclosed then, but now let me disclose a little bit of myself and what my versatility and creativity have given me a lot more knowledge that I could have fathomed. Now I am a Computer Engineer, a bit of a real estate agent, a

software developer or a computer programmer depending which part of the world you find your self; these are but a few I would disclose these fields had a lot of influence in the way I see things now when I browse the internet I learn about houses, computers, softwares and others so versatility gives knowledge . Now start learning being versatile.

Break the barriers.

The words “break” and “barriers” are quite similar in terms of letters “b” “r” “e” “a” appears in both break and barriers but our focus needs to be on the barriers we face in our daily lives. So what do we understand by the word barrier, we sometimes use this word in our day to day conversations but we certainly do not know the meanings of the word “barrier” so the word barrier according to my writing on the subject simply means “ any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective” that is the meaning of barriers.

Interestingly, barriers hinders us on what we can do or achieve or what we can try to do and achieve. Understandably, we need to be focused and be ready to be who we want to be by breaking the barriers that hinders us from being smart because we all want to be smart. Now, start doing things that you have being scared of doing because you might be afraid that you might fail. Failure might be a stepping stone but learn to break barriers and you can be incredibly smart.

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Think the Impossible; Do the Impossible

Who would have ever thought there would be something like an Iphone, a Blackberry smartphone and other ranges of android devices?Yesteryears a lot of people living in this our beautiful planet would say and think it would be impossible to have something of these nature. But now because of the many inventors who thought about the impossible, decided to go ahead to do the impossible now we have a technology crowded world.

Nevertheless, we need to think the impossible and try to do the impossible this would equivocally make us incredibly smart. This is one of my most favorite quote I usually tell people “everything is possible as long as the sun and moon exists” so now lean on this quote and you won’t be scared of doing the impossible or possibly become the impossible.

Trust your Guts, not your Heart.

Your guts can make you do things you would really be afraid of doing; but we do really need to show some of them when the need be, it’s relative meaning is gumption meaning “sound practical judgement” which is one of the very specific characteristic of a smart person. Ironically, guts can make we humans do some very silly sometimes stupid things we never intend on doing being in a very clear headed state. The sound practical judgement means we take decisions without fear, with authority and say smart words without stuttering. The best thing that can happen to a man is if he can trust his guts over his heart. Trusting your heart is not really a bad idea but it kind of makes us a bit weak. Now start trusting your guts but be cautious not to do something stupid but always try learning from your mistakes or others as well.

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Work and Play Work is an activity directed towards making or doing something while play on the other hand is a bit quite the opposite of work in that it means “ engaging in recreational activities rather than work.”

Opposites are a bit compatible, lets take a look at magnetic principles “like poles repel each other”; while “unlike poles attract each other”. Literally, Work and Play both can co-exist this would make us even smarter but most people thinks only work makes us smart. Smart men and women do find some time to take a break to play to improve their knowledge . Like it is often said the sub-consious mind holds some key things really deep we need to look away from the problem to get the solutions that is where one of the importance of play comes in so work and play and become incredibly smart.

Read (broadens knowledge)

Reading different kinds of books can adversely improve our knowledge on things we never or even knew existed. Taking me as an example, I read a lot of books on topics and subjects I am not connected or affiliated with but reading such books have broaden my knowledge and made me really smart.

Importantly, people always run away from reading; but reading something new every week we learn new vocabularies and new reports or studies, researches and breakthroughs in different fields. Start reading new things and you would see you are becoming incredibly smart by the day.

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Practice (makes perfect)

It’s no secret that practice makes perfect, but the problem we mostly face is such time for the practice to make us perfect on what we want to perfect ourselves in.

Essentially, we all need practice in our daily lives be it learning how to operate a new technology, learning how to play the piano etcetera. Practicing an art can only make us smart and people would call you a genius. For example, when I personally practiced the art of music production by myself, without any professional or amateur assistant; it was a really boring experience but when I practiced continuously, I was able to excel in it because of my determination, now when I add music production to my curriculum vitae people are like this guy must be a smart guy or a genius. Story is over my main point is about how I practiced to achieve something, start practicing today and you would be smart in the art which you have practiced.

Be nimble (mentally quick) Agile

Mentality plays a very important role in our lives, when our mental state is not at the highest we tend to do the simplest of task a bit slow or we react to things with less zeal. Human mentality is of a great importance, in difficult situations where we don’t have all the time in the world to do or say something that is of great importance, we need to show a bit of mentality or other words agility.

Reasonably, solving some mathematical equations in record time using your brains and not a calculator would only make you smarter at least to put it people would reason you a smart person. One of the best ways to be mentally quick is to exercise the brains with things like solving puzzles, playing sudoku and other brain exercising games these can only make you smarter.

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Patience is virtue

One thing most smart people have going for them is the ability to be patient when things are going south(not the way they planned). This ability of being patient can also be classified as the golden ability that’s why the caption is “patience is virtue”.

Time and time again a lot of people have heard of the saying “a patient dog it the fattest bone” but sometimes it all seem to be true but other times it is all but a lie. Someone once made a joke out of it that a patient dog is only going to die of starvation or hunger which at some point might be true. The importance of being patient is that you can exceed your expectation instead of running and failing. It’s better to build an house on a rock than to build it on a swamp. Be patient when learning or practicing and you would find that patience is really a virtue.

Don’t pride yourself

Most of you might be wondering what do you(The Author) mean taking a cue from Justin Bieber’s “What do you mean” great song by the way; back to business because we are not reading this to talk about music so what I really meant about don’t pride yourself is pretty simple don’t let the attitude of “I know it all” affect you because it can make you dumber instead of smarter because you won’t be ready to listen to what anyone is trying to say because you think you know everything more than they do . Priding oneself can not make us any smart but can make us less smart. So please DON’T...

Anything is Everything

Another caption to make people wonder, if you are really smart you would absolutely kind of understand the caption above, “Anything is

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Everything” . Let me shed some light on it because my friends are finding it hard to fathom. Let me start by point an example, when you visit a friend and he/she asks what can I offer you water, juice, ice cream, soda etcetera you are open to all the options but when you select one that is the option you are content with, but if you say “anything” you are still open to “everything”. That is what I meant by “Anything is Everything”. Speaking such kinds of interesting words which is more or less like riddles can make you smarter so start making “anything” and “everything”.

Listening is learning; Learning is Knowledge

Everyone or almost everyone know that knowledge is connected to smartness, listening to what someone says is one of the ways of learning, so let’s go back in time. When we were still young how do we learn? It’s by listening so it’s no secret that listening is learning and learning things, trades or arts gives us the knowledge about that substance.

Understandably, when we learn something it improves our knowledge, lets take maths(mathematics) as an example when we are in primary school(elementary school) we learn some aspects of maths as we progress towards secondary school(high school) we tend to know more harder aspect of maths so this in turn improves our knowledge. When we have knowledge that others do not have this makes us smarter. Listen and learn, learn and have the knowledge and become incredibly smart.

Inspiration

Inspiration according to one of the reasons I am writing this book means a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem. We all need

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inspiration in any activity we partake in be it extra-curricular or important activities. Moreover, everyday when we are feeling down or looking for something or someone to illuminate us in one way or the other; all we need is some INSPIRATION.

Regardless, inspiration is one of the many keys to smartness. Being smart makes you feel like the luckiest man alive because you can solve some problems before your peers even think of any breakthrough. Humans like being the best at what they do; so be it a famous person, just an ordinary person or something it is good to find an inspiration in something one way or the other.

Never run from a problem.(Fix it)

Problems are a regular phenomenon in this universe and others which may or may not be existing. For me problems are a really strenuous task that only makes us smarter. Running from a problem and not fixing it can only make things worst and won’t make you any better at what you do, please as an orthodox plea; do not I mean never run from a problem try fixing it. Problems might have their grades there are easy problems, difficult problems and quite pretty difficult problems. No matter, what type of problem it is there is always a means to an end. A problem started from somewhere and can also end from somewhere.

Whatsoever, problems you might have faced in the past or facing presently never you run from it, because the more you try to run from it the more it keeps expanding until it blows up and become a kind of epidemic(if you(The readers) would allow me to do so. Now, start finding a means to an end in solving your problems; it’s the best way to live a life without worries, try it; it would help. If a problem persists take a walk outside under the night skies; it’s one of natures best way of keeping a free mind and relaxation of the brain. Take a walk and take your mind of the problems, with time a solution might appear. This is one of the ways I have solved most of my problem. Do not run from a problem fix it, it can only make you smarter.

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Always work with time.

Time they say for no man. Time is something we don’t have the luxury of changing, editing or control. Someone once said that time is a very fragile construct. Having watched some sci-fi(science fiction) movies or series in the past and in the present day; it always is the case that if man can go back in time to alter an event it affects the future. We at one point or the other in our lives we have wished if we can change the hands of time we would correct those mistakes we make in the past to make us better in the future.

Time is something we also don’t have the luxury of sharing, once we miss a train we have to wait for the next one so we won’t be able to get to our destination on the time the first train would arrive at the station. If we work with time, we would know how to perfect what we do and how we do things. These can make us better and smarter. When humans work with time they make things much better and we do become kind of an expert at what we do. Now get a watch or use the time on your mobile phone to work things out and know how many minute to do this and how many seconds to do that. Time, Time, Time waits for no man.

Learn from your mistakes(or others mistakes)

The best way to learn without too many problems is to learn from the mistakes of others, while the best way to learn to make yourself perfect is to learn from your mistakes. One of the greatest gift given to man is the gift of redemption; but not everyone have the luxury of redemption, but if we do we know our mistakes we would know our flaws and know our perfections, so that is why the best thing to make us really smart is to learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others.

Countless times people have made mistakes but when they get a shot at redemption they don’t fail which makes them incredibly smart.

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Don’t be afraid to ASK questions

Shying away from questions(asking questions and answering questions) won’t make you any smarter; it would only make you scared of your true potentials which are always skin deep, which would only take the inner mind to bring out. When we ask questions, when we get our answers we learn from it, while when we answer questions even if we fail we can learn from our mistakes that is the best way of learning. Do not forget “ Listening is Learning; Learning is Knowledge” knowledge can only make us smarter. Please do not shy away from questions it can only make you smarter.

Answer this question: What type of smartness do you want?

The caption is pretty straight-forward, the type of smartness we want is an integral part of wanting to being smart. There are different type of being smart be it dressing smart, brain smart, technology smart, street smart etcetera. Deciding the type of smartness we want makes this easier for us to contemplate, when we decide the type of smartness we want it would be pretty clear what we need to do and not to do so we can be smart in the aspect which we crave. So the choice is yours decide which smartness you want.

Answer this question: How smart do you want to be?

This explanation would be pretty short, so how smart we want to be is there for us to decide. Think how smart you want to be and there is no limit in getting smart. Find out what you want and get what you

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Don’t be desperate, Desperation can lead to destruction.

Desperation can lead to recklessness which in turn leads to destruction. Trying to do things desperately won’t make us smart or even smarter it only diminishes our way of thinking; perhaps desperation is one of the stepping stone to make us better but being too desperate leads to destruction. Destruction in the sense that we would want to try all our possible best to get what we want which in turn might make us a shell or a monster out of ourselves.

Moreover, lets try doing things more simply so as to avoid desperation and start doing things on time would also stop us from being too desperate. Do not be desperate to achieve it won’t make you learn about the smallest of details; missing such details won’t make us smart, knowing about every little details and being able to gather information would make us smart.

Learn to gather information.

Information about something gives us an advantage to know how to handle the object. For example, getting an information about a new car would let us know how to operate and handle the car, so without information we might just be a person locked up in an enclosed room where he/she have no idea where he/she is. Gathering information makes us know more about happenings around us and it makes us smarter.

Gathering information helps in a lot of ways, it makes us to be able to check in case of reference purposes. Everyone have a purpose of wanting to do something, gathering information and not forgetting them can go a long way in us becoming incredibly smart.

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Sleep healthy.

Sleep can be defined as a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended. We all need sleep to be in the right state of mind . I remember a fortnight before writing this book I had been struggling with insomnia which lasted for about two(2) months , whenever I want to write a blog, program a software I feel like my brain is not ready to function because I had problem sleeping, sleep is one of the greatest gift given to man.

Sleeping healthy makes us and prepares us for the days ahead, it refreshes us, makes us do things better and smarter, when we lack good sleep we find it hard to fathom even the simplest of tasks. Sleeping healthy makes us healthily smart.

Don’t be Pathetic

Pathetic according to the reason on this book means “lacking in power or forcefulness”. Anyone who lacks power or forcefulness can’t be really smart because he/she won’t have the power to stand his/her own.Pathetic on the other hand means “deserving or inciting pity”. To become incredibly smart we don’t need people showing us pity; because if we let them they won’t take it we are smart. Do not be pathetic and do things and don’t expect pity and it would go a long way in making you incredibly smart.

Always know when to end an argument.

With the ability to know when to end an argument it won’t just make us smart it would make us really incredibly smart. The best way of us being smart is if people around us says we are really smart. When we end an argument before it escalates people sees us smart. So know when to end an argument.

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See things better than people do.

Whenever people sees only negativity in things, it is better to differ and find the positives in that thing which they only see negativity in. There is this popular quote which goes like this “there is always light at the end of the tunnel” every situation are like a tunnel which at every end there is light.

Understandably, most of the smartest men the world have ever seen are never pessimistic they are always optimistic even when things are looking bleak. Finding solutions to problems is also like been optimistic.

Get everything Figured Out.

Figuring things out is like a natural talent we all have; even the smartest of men finds it really hard to figure out mostly the simplest of things but that does not make people see them as not being smart, what actually makes them really smart is the ability to figure out sometimes the most difficult of tasks. I mentioned in previous steps on work and play.

Work and play; when we play so much with numbers we tend to figure out most maths problems pretty easily, when we figure out such things this can only mean we are smart or we are becoming incredibly smart. Figuring things out makes us incredibly smart and boosts our IQ(Intelligent Quotient).

Research

This is an integral part in us being incredibly smart, if we are versatile in different fields. When a doctor is talking about engineering and he gets all his facts right people deem him smart, this can happen if the doctor went to engineering school or he probably had done some

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research in engineering. For example, I personally had done a lot of research on fields am not even connected with but when I research I acquire knowledge which I can share with others who care to learn also.

Research have got even the most brilliant of minds and brains even much more smarter, because how would a doctor know so much about engineering even without attending any engineering school? or how would an accountant know a little bit about law?. For me the answer is RESEARCH! RESEARCH! And more RESEARCH!. Start doing research even outside your fields and find out how much more knowledge you can amass from doing such research.

Exercise Daily

Exercising daily would keep your body in peak physical condition or fit(according to my British roots). Exercising daily boosts the brain and what it can take in, regular exercises have a lot of benefits like it wards off stroke, it prevents high blood pressure, it reduces the risk of diabetes, actually we are not talking about the medical fields in this book but I learnt a lot of these through researches; so back to business exercising daily enable our brains to be able to soak things in really well. So start exercising daily and start becoming incredibly smart and might even get abs as a free gift as well.

Try doing something artistic.

In a previous step I wrote that versatility is creativity; creativity is knowledge. Now let me shed more light on the creativity. Creativity am shedding light on now is the artistic type of creativity which involves drawing, painting and other graphics art. This in turn improves your knowledge than you expect it, it brings out the creative type of smartness in you, which is also being smart in the artistic and general sense.

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Write( Essays, Stories or Poetry).

The things I have been writing recently are books or stories, but sometimes I do write songs since I am a songwriter. We are still going to talk about creativity here but we would focus mostly on creative writing, previously we talked about artistic creativity, now is all about writing creativity. Creative writing helps in learning new words, sentences, vocabularies, and other things associated with writing. Being creative in writing is just so amazing, when I was a bit younger I thought writing a book was really difficult until I tried to do so on a fateful day and I found out how easy it was to write a book; not just any book but books which can inspire people, books which people can learn from, writing such books have really been an education for me. Try Creative writing and know how it feel when you see your name printed boldly on an article, there is no feeling like it.

Work on your Vocabulary.

Previously, in the creative writing section I mentioned how creative writing can help boost your vocabularies. To be honest, people love those who speaks good English (especially in English speaking countries) like The United Kingdom(UK) and The USA. . Learning new words everyday boosts your vocabularies, but I have to warn you (The readers) do not speak a vocabulary you do not understand because that is not what would make you smart. The only type of vocabulary that can make you smart is the type which you can speak, explain and even break down to those who don’t understand. That is what makes you smart.

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Motivation

Motivation is something we do need when things are miserably going south( not as planned). Everyone, even the smartest, the richest, the greatest men and women who have graced this planet needed motivation in one or more aspects of their lives. Motivation goes a long way in trying to inspire us in doing something which might at first look like an herculean task, but in turn it makes us to be able to perform and succeed those tasks which might at first look seem really difficult. Regular motivations would make us really incredibly smart because it would make us not to be afraid to do things which may or may not work, but it’s all still part of education. Try motivating someone today and see how better the person can become.

Set Goals.

Setting goals for ourselves helps in improve ourselves, like no man can single handedly improve us unless we want to. Setting goals for ourselves once or twice a week is not really a bad idea, it helps to keep us in check to know if we are improving or not. Setting these goals we learn what we can and can’t do; how long it would take us to achieve a task and how smart we are. Setting goals once or twice a week and achieving what we set out to do makes us smart. Set Goals, Achieve your goals and become incredibly smart.

Eat healthy Proteins.

Talking about diet! Maybe you might be wondering, how can a diet make us smart? The answer is YES! Diets can make us smart especially proteins which gives our brains the energy it needs to process. Proteins such as fishes and eggs are the best. While for long term brain functions eat food with omega 3 fatty acids like walnuts etc..

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Be Curious

Curiosity is like an unorthodox type of learning because being curious makes us want to investigate and learn new things; and during the process of learning and investigating we might stumble upon different articles which we might have a little read on, where we can acquire more knowledge which can make us smart. From the little explanation, take a look at how being curious is connected to acquiring knowledge and being smart. From learning and investigating to reading and acquiring knowledge to being smart. One of the best ways to be incredibly smart is to sometimes have a read on articles we are not connected with one way or the other.

Ask for help.

Most people thinks being smart have to do with not asking others for help because they think they are extremely smarter than the rest, with this perception we tend to ignore mostly the smallest of details which is integral in proving we smart. Asking for help makes us know those things we might have skim across or have missed, asking others for help is like knowing different ways to solve a maths equation. Everyone might have different ideas to solving a problem which might be of great importance in making us smart.

Teach others.

Teaching others is almost the same as sharing knowledge, when we teach others we find it hard to forget what we taught others. This helps us not to forget most of the things we have learnt. Teaching others is a key in us being incredibly smart.

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Learn new words each day.

Words alone don’t mean we are smart, but it’s how we speak those words and describe those words that is what makes us smart. Learning new words is almost the same as working on our vocabularies; but in this case we learn the words, the meanings and sometimes the pronunciation and the spellings. Everyday I try to at least learn ten(10) new words which I tend to share with friends just like teaching others, so I won’t tend to forget it easily. So words can make us smart.

Surround yourself with intelligent people.

This might be a bit mean, but pay little detail to the caption. I actually don’t mean all the friends you hang around with must all be intelligent, I meant when wanting to get ideas or solve a problem it is of great importance to surround yourself with intelligent people because they tend to solve your problems pretty easily and saves time.

Intelligent people have a way of solving problems and giving ideas really smart and they are kind of well known for speaking in a very smart way which is one quality of being smart.

Spend time apart from others.

Every human needs closure sometimes, spending time apart from friends and families and away from others we tend to concentrate. Concentration is key to understanding. For example, it is particularly difficult for someone to read a book and understand when there is loud music playing in the room, instead of maintaining a straight focus on the book the music would have been circulating in the brain. Being in isolation mostly at night at looking at the skies clears the brain of unnecessary memories.

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Listen to music.

Listening to music is like a thing to do during leisure, but what most people don’t know is that when listening to music our brains tend to react well depending on the kind of music we listen to. Take for example, someone who listens to Rhythm and Blues(RnB) would be easier to understand what he or she hears or reads quickly unlike those who would listen to Rap because Rap is fast so the brain would want to take things in and process things fast and this can lead to lots of mistake. The beauty of listening to music is that it relaxes the brains to process information later and better.

Watch TV.

Watching Television can make us smarter and almost everyone knows this that when we watch television we broaden our knowledge especially current affairs, wildlife , documentaries etc. These programs we watch on TV makes us to know more which is knowledge which in turn can also mean being smart.

Sensitivity.

Sensitivity is the ability to respond to affective changes in our interpersonal environment. Human have five(5) sense organs namely : The Eyes, Nose, Ears, Mouth and Skin; and everyone of these organs have their different functions. If we are good at sensing trouble by either seeing or hearing it from distance we can be described as being a smart at sensing troubles. That is also being smart. Like I mentioned earlier in this book there are different kinds of smart.

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Make Attempts.

Making attempts improves our knowledge on things we know and don’t know, like this popular sayings: “ please tell me something I do not know, and not something I already know”. Relatively, like fixing a problem and not running from problem is a bit similar to making attempts.

Whenever we make attempts to solve a problem we learn new things and we get to know more about the problems. Unlike, when we don’t even try attempting to solve the problem. Making attempts improves our knowledge which can only make us better and smarter. Try making attempts even when things are looking impossible but remember this my favorite quote “ impossible is nothing”.

Work on Improvements.

Working on improvements have no other effect on us than to make us even better. Improvements is something we all work on every given day of our lives, we always wish today would be absolutely better than yesterday. Just imagine if there have not being improvements made on the iPhone the buyers would have grown tired of the iPhone because of lack of innovations. Innovations is something the late Apple(the company behind the Apple devices like the iPhones, iPads, Macbooks and others) Steve Jobs was so obsessed with, and as a matter of fact innovations made him smarter than most of his peers, Improvements is like innovations. Working on improving something gives us knowledge which makes us incredibly smart. Luckily, I would be working on improvements on this book and I am thinking of publishing another book which I thinks is going to be a good read, with the name simply like this books name but different which is “20 ways to be Incredibly Smart”.

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With most of the points I have gathered and wrote on this book I think it is time you have to be incredibly smart, but the only thing that might come against you being smart with this book at your disposal is yourself. We humans are the only thing that comes between us and achieving things we set out to do. Please have a good read and become incredibly smart.

Thanks for having a read and please try keepingup to date of other copies of my book. My emailaddress is provided at the bottom of the third pageso you(The readers) can mail me and tell me on howyou feel about my book, I would very much appreciateit. Thanks and become Incredibly Smart.

About this Book.

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This book is written with great zeal and fortitude to teach and show people the ways to become incredibly smart. I intended for this book to be a starting and advanced learning curve to be incredibly smart. This book is for everyone to have a good read. Smartness is something everyone can achieve by themselves, but most people thinks it is a natural God-given ability, which is absolutely false. That is why I tookthe time to write this self-help book on how we can beincredibly smart by knowing most of the important points.

Raphael Samson(Author)

About this Author.

Raphael Samson( The Author) is a very versatile person,like I wrote in this book a bit of my qualifications. According to what I can do I am a blogger, a real estate agent, a computer engineer, a software developer, an investor, a music producer, a song writer, a music video director, a movie producer, an author and other things I don’t feel like putting in mention. And I hope with what I have written here you can be insipred to do better. Thanks.