Intelligence is a word that describes more than just one way of developing a potential outcome.
Intelligence can generally be described as the ability to perceive information, and retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment (Psychology Today)
There are nine types of intelligence, each describing a different way of brain operation. There is musical intelligence, naturalist intelligence, and logical-mathematical intelligence, existential, interpersonal, kinesthetic-bodily, linguistic, intra-personal and spatial intelligence (Gartner).
Everyone has different kinds of intelligence, and those are that need to be developed more, as they are going to provide the person with more tools in life. When we read about things that will make us smarter or help our brain in that way, we read about how to boost our types of intelligence that dominate our character and at the same time help the other types of intelligence that are not as strong to become stronger.
Jessica Stillman in her article "10 Small Things You Can Do Every Day to Get Smarter" says that there are little things we can do every day to help our brainpower increase. It is true that there are many times that we just follow a routine, without caring about the quality of work done. For this to stop, being mindful and aware of the present is crucial, while having imagination and many ideas can help us advance our work and take it to the next level.
"Intelligence is a work in progress. Maximize yours with these simple habits"
as Jessica says
And what are those habits?
Be smarter about your online time; don't spend too much time on social media and networking sites. There are many great online learning resources, which help you understand more on any subject.
- Make a list with what you did that day, that gives you a feeling of accomplishment and it helps your self-esteem so as to do more every day
- Start playing scrabble and make puzzles, it helps your brain combine knowledge from different subject areas
- Have smart friends, “Keep a smart company. Remember your IQ is the average of five closest people you hang out with,” Saurabh Shah, an account manager at Symphony Teleca, writes.
- Read a lot, every reading material has proved to be brain-boosting
Explain it to others, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough,” Albert Einstein said, and it is true, when you explain it to others is like you teach it to yourself again. In that way you will find what pieces lack from what you learn and you will fill the missing knowledge.
- Do random new things. In order to have dots to connect, you need to be willing to try new things–even if they don’t seem immediately useful or productive.
- Learn a new language. Learning a foreign language can increase the size of your brain. This is what Swedish scientists discovered when they used brain scans to monitor what happens when someone learns a second language.
- Take some downtime. This is the most important of all. "Downtime replenishes the brain’s stores of attention and motivation, encourages productivity and creativity, and is essential to both achieve our highest levels of performance and simply form stable memories in everyday life." Ferris JabrIndicesα Scientific American.
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