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Intelligence Excusitis: Three Ways to Feel Better

"It serves absolutely no point, nothing feels better than this. Either I'm too old or too young."

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1. Remember your own intelligence and never underestimate the mental strength of others.


FIRST AND FOREMOST, DEFINE "INTELLIGENCE." To be clear, I'm not just talking about expanding the number of information or pieces of knowledge you can gather, or what is known as crystallized intelligence—this isn't fluency or memorization training—quite the contrary, in fact. I'm referring to improving your fluid intelligence, or your ability to learn new material, remember it and then use that new knowledge to solve the next problem or learn the next new skill, and so on.


Concentrate on your resources. Discover your primary talents. Keep in mind that it is not the number of cerebrums that is significant. Mental toughness is a key part of being successful. In the face of uncertainty or difficulty, mental fortitude is described as the capacity to focus on and implement solutions. It's easy to give up too soon if we give up when things get hard or if we lose patience with the process.



Rather, it is the manner in which you think that is important. Instead of worrying about your IQ, concentrate on your cerebrums. To build the mental toughness you need for success, you need patience, creativity, inquiry, and action. When we have the mental strength to keep going through hard times, we don't fear being in them as much.


2. My perceptions are more important than my understanding," remind yourself several times a day.


Practice uplifting attitudes at work and at home. Look for the reasons why you can accomplish it rather than the reasons why you can't. Create an "I'm winning" attitude. Put your knowledge to creative, productive use. Use it to find methods to win, not to illustrate why you will lose.


Shut your eyes. What do you recall about the space you're in? What about the hue of the walls and the angle of the shadows? We selectively attend to different things in our environment, whether we realize it or not. Our brains just do not have the capacity to pay attention to every single aspect of our surroundings.


Celebrate a major victory - "I enjoy it when no one appreciates my successes," no one ever stated. Take a time to celebrate a personal or professional achievement with all of your heart. When I worked at Box, my coworkers and I would ring a giant gong and give each other high fives. It was fantastic. Each and every time. People enjoy being recognized.


This propensity is highlighted by optical illusions. Have you ever gazed at an optical illusion and thought one thing while your buddy saw something quite different? When confronted with inputs, our brains go through three steps: selection, organization, and interpretation.


3. Memorize that the ability to think is far more valuable than the ability to remember facts.


Use your brain to generate and nurture ideas, to find new and better methods to accomplish tasks. 'Am I using my psychological potential to make a difference in the world, or am I merely recording history produced by others? "Working memory storage capacity is important because cognitive tasks can only be done if there is enough space to hold information while it is being processed. The capacity to repeat information is task-dependent, but it may be separated from a more consistent, underlying process in young adults.


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Memory problems happen virtually every day. Forgetting is so prevalent that you most likely rely on a variety of strategies to help you remember crucial information, such as taking notes in a daily planner or booking key appointments on your phone's calendar.


You've probably heard many people of any age explain their average performance in life as follows: 'I'm too old (or too young) to break in at this moment.' Because of my age handicap, I am unable to perform what I would like to or am capable of doing." They essentially believe their age is inappropriate, therefore they do not attempt.


The most well-known variety of old enough excusitis is the "I'm too old." This illness spreads in unobtrusive ways. Television fiction is developed about a major chief who lost his job due to consolidation and is unable to get another because he is too elderly. Mr. Executive tries for a long time to find another job, but he can't, and ultimately, after thinking of self-destruction for some time, he chooses to make the excuse that it's nice to be on the rack.


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It may appear that knowledge has been lost at times, yet even a small stimulus can assist awaken the memory. Consider the last time you took a school exam. While you may have felt forgetful and unprepared at first, seeing the facts displayed on the test undoubtedly helped prompt the recall of information you may not have even realized you remembered.


Our memory is both majestic and pitiable. It is capable of tremendous accomplishments, yet it never works quite as well as we would want. We would ideally be able to recall everything instantaneously, but we are not machines. Memory palaces are tools that help us hack our memories, but they need work and devotion.



Most of us give up and rely on cellphones, cloud-enabled laptops, or plain old pen and paper to save our memories. There is a workable solution. To attain near-perfect recall, a learning approach is known as spaced repetition that efficiently organizes knowledge or memory and retention can be applied.


Concentrate on what is genuinely necessary. It's past the point of no return only when you allow your brain to become negative and believe it is. Stop thinking, "I should have started years ago." That's a depressing thought. Rather, consider, "I'll start now, my best years are ahead of me." That is the way successful people think and nothing feels better than this!



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