what are some activities that increase your mental physique/intelligence?
Learning a language
>>37640588
Beat me to it.
Who /汉语/ here?
Watching Frank Yang videos
Start with the Greeks
Meditate
Learn a Language
Read challenging books/textbooks
Study something
Hegel
Meditate
Have a good diet/lifestyle
Socialise
I ordered modafil in the mail, should be here any day now. Good idea ?
>>37640860
>modafil
enjoy feeling tired 24/7
>>37640577
Read non-fiction, specifically physics, mathematics and linguistics. Learn how to apply your critical thinking skills and do practice problems.
read
math
dual n-back
meditate
also learning a language in undoubtedly helpful, but why don't you learn music theory instead, something you can apply in your real social life to impress people
get a piano, learn classical
being an engineering student does it for me
My biggest problem is I can't stick with anything.
>I want to learn/do [this thing]
>study/do [this thing] for a week
>slowly fall out and stop studying/doing it
how can I stop this?
>>37640894
any recommendations?
>>37641273
What's your background?
DUDE JUST ADD HEALTH OR FITNESS TO WHATEVER YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT SO ITS /FIT/ RELATED LMAO
PENIS FITNESS GUYS
SEXUAL HEALTH
LEGAL FITNESS HOW DO I BECOME A BETTER ATTOURNEY?
>>37641285
physiks but also interested in linguistics
>>37640719
>simplified cuck
learning languages
trilingual english spanish german fag here
http://bebrainfit.com/brain-benefits-learning-second-language/
>>37641260
stop being inferior and realize excellence is a habit
>>37641327
For physics check out Landau and Lifshitz's series of texts if you haven't already.
For mathematics start with Wigner's group theory and quantum mechanics book.
For intro to linguistics try O'Grad and Archibald's book. If you're familiar with abstract algebra you can pick up Salomaa's book on formal language theory.
>>37641341
>trilingual
Get on the Quintilingual boat you peasant
German-French-Spanish-Italian-German
(desu its not that hard because the grammar is all the same for 3 of the languages)
>>37641476
>quintilingual
>lists German twice
>>37641505
>hmmm what language is this post in
>>37640577
Read Asimov and Heinlein for dat der GOAT science fiction.
Any tips on learning German? I hear the women are easy.
>>37641298
>legal fitness
kekt
>>37641341
what did you do to start learning a language
>>37641583
and most likley ugly
>>37641408
cool thanks.
do you know any good books on formal logic?
Read Seneca. Letters from a Stoic are an amazing collection of letters from Seneca to his pupil Lucillius.
He is very much concerned with practical approaches to being a good person. Having a mind that is "in shape" strong, and wise. Not being a little pampered bitch etc etc.
Check out letter 88. In that one his shits on Liberal Arts, then redeems them through a different lens
>>37641622
But what about muh wealthy German speaking Swiss girl?
>>37641505
Yes but he didn't list English did he retard?
>>37641667
swiss aren't german.
just german speaking.
Enjoy her health which formed in the alps strengthend by her fathers whealth.
>>37641651
Mendelson for an introduction. Boolos, Burgess and Jeffery for a more comp sci related treatment.
>>37641260
What's your day job? If it's anything intellectual, then use your relaxation time for relaxation and try not to feel like you have to maximise productivity all of the time to be a successful and happy human being.
Also, and this goes for everyone in the thread: you're going to have a lot more fun, learn more, and gain more conversation pieces from reading pop sci books rather than slogging through textbooks. Maths and physics take years of learning and practice when you're doing them as your full-time education; don't expect that you can learn them rigorously from a few hours a week with a textbook.
Learn about the world at large from popular books on science, history, from fiction, etc. Find creative hobbies for your own enjoyment rather than trying to make all time into time for incessant self-improvement. Delve into textbooks if and only if you need to rigorously understand something.
I say this as a physics grad student who doesn't go home to read science textbooks: I read fiction or pop-psych on my commute, cook, cuddle my gf and just chill on weeknights, then go for long walks and tinkle on the piano at weekends. It's a good mixture.
I picked up the bass and started learning simple tabs and pentatonics.
It is also a nice way to pass the time sitting outside and playing some of your favourite tunes, highly recommend this.
>>37640577
Reading, talking to everyone you meet, classical music, and most importantly: psychedelics.
>>37641651
Volker Halbach
>>37640719
>not learning Korean
A V E R A G E will be mine.
>>37641820
thanks for an openhearted advice, here take (you)
Learning a second language, instrument or just general studying. You could also expand your English vocabulary but if you use the words you learned all the time you'll sound like a cunt.
I know Turkish and English (I'm a diaspora Turk).
Learn how to play an instrument. Ideally one that will open social doorways for you.
>Guitar
>Piano
>Jazz flute
Of course reading and learning something new are the clear answers, but M E D I T A T I O N is an easy way to create a foundation for intelligence.
>>37641820
This is great. I started like this years ago on the acoustic guitar with no real goals of mastery but rather to just learn some of the basics.
>8 years later
>Can play most modes and genres
>have 3 Acoustic guitars & 4 Electrics
It's still only a hobby but combined with lifting it's such a good way to kill stress and relax. Plus when i'm at a party and kids are playing wonderwall over and over and over I can surprise the party with a little impromptu chord progression and solo. Definitely a good way to break the ice or start a conversation.
>>37640860
watch limitless to prepare yourself for your new life
>>37640922
>dual n back
does it work? i started today actually but ive read conflicting reports
>>37641753
>>37641837
thanks for the advice will check them out
Read. Read stuff you enjoy first then your tastes will naturally mature to more serious and mind stretching subject matter.
>>37640719
Still working on RTK, but I'm getting there.
Taking a logic course over the summer semester at school.
I'll find a subject to study in my off time, just like one of my role models, Ben Franklin.
Also, when fall comes in, I'll see if my friends wanna make a junto club with me, where we discuss and debate shit we've learned and investigate whatever as a group thing.
>>37640577
>increase intelligence
You do realize you have a genetic limit right?
If you didn't IQ test wouldn't matter, you could just keep studying until you are the smartest man in the world.
anyone have any recommended philosophy books? I'm thinking of things like meditations by marceus areulius.
>>37640719
true, عؤوان مَا ؤَهِمْت
also; learning a new instrument
>>37642163
I read the Republic and Phaedo recently and then the philosophy teacher at my uni reccomended Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tanas. It's an eloquently written book on the history of western phil and pretty unbiased in the sense he tries to explain most philosophies with a sort of sympathy towards them.
Learn how to read sheet music and play an instrument, it's almost like knowing another language.
Listening to classical music has been debunked but performing and composition is associated with higher iq and memorization skills
Learn calculus
>>37640764
What a random incoherent mess. You're no role model.
>>37641969
But modes are just flatting or sharping a note in a major scale.
I love guitar though. Started studying with a classical teacher at the symphony school in my town and I'm gonna be studying jazz and classical after the summer.
>>37641408
O'Grady is pretty good for getting into linguistics but it is outdated for the most part.
>>37640764
>HEGEL
JUST
>>37641666
What are his best letters, Satan? I have his book sitting on my shelf, but I'm very short on time this semester, and most free time is spent lifting.
>>37642276
True, but to understand what mode you're getting into when sharpening or flattening notes is valuable for song writing and playing.
Chemistry +Chemical Engineering double major here
Suggest a worthwhile passtime which isn't very time intensive please
>>37640577
lifting while knowing what you are lifting and how it works.
>tfw lifting while understanding how my body works
it improves my gains and gives me control over my body.
if you can't produce hormones whenever you want, you should literally kill yourself
Aeronautical Engineering
suggest a worthwhile passtime which isnt very time intensive please
Just be yourself :DDDDDDDD
