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How Can I Make Myself Smarter?
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From: rmjo...@aol.comcombonwa (RMJon23)
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Date: 17 Feb 2002 23:57:28 GMT
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Subject: Re: How Can I Make Myself Smarter?
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Do the unexpected; study a few different forms of yoga with a scientific
attitude; study General Semantics; practice writing with your non-dominant
hand; read a book a week and write a review of it, if only for your own eyes;
join discussion groups about topics that interest you; run stairs or ride a
bicycle regularly; read poetry every day; meditate for 30 minutes a day for 30
days in a row; practice novel methods of perception, as described at length in
books by Robert Anton Wilson, John Lilly, Timothy Leary, Richard Bandler,
Masters and Houston, Aleister Crowley, etc; look at your media habits and try
to find out how they affect your worldviews and moods, then try altering your
use of media for a month; try a form of psychotherapy; listen to new musical
forms and feel them as languages, images, emotions, unique rhetorical
structures; are you smoking pot at least once a month?; get out of your normal
environment for three to seven days and observe how the new environments
affected your sense ratios; make a committment to a long-term study of one of
the bottomless books, like Ulysses or The Cantos or Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy,
or...well, we readers MAKE books bottomless, really; study math and logic; read
Garfinkel's Studies In Ethnomethodology and try your own breaching experiments
to see what you can find out about minute details of everyday social "reality";
keep a dream journal; read and study metaphor intensely, then listen to people
speak; learn as much as you can about the prison system in the US; none of us
can possibly know enough about world mythologies; assume everything you know is
wrong.
Prove to yourself what an ass rmjon23 is by developing something for yourself
that's better than anything I've written above. What sort of "proof" was it?
Emulate any self-respecting taxi driver in the lower left-hand corner of
Arizona and develop your sense of Yuma.
I've tried all these things, and they've worked for me; my IQ jumped 15 points.
I've finally broken 100, folks! (100 seems overrated, truth be told...)
-rmjon23
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