for those tl:dw he gives 7 ways to make yourself smarter: 1. N-back online 2. Exercise 3. Music training 4. mindfulness meditation 5. Lumosity - brain training 6. Transcranial Direct-Current stimulation 7. Nicotine patch - 7mg per day
5. Lumosity - brain training www.statnews.com/2016/09/06/lumosity-reels-federal-crackdown/ By the way it has been said that game training often time improves the score of the game rather than one's general intelligent.
If you looked for this video, that very action says yes you can make yourself smarter. If you've been on any kind of knowledge quest, just think of how much smarter you are now. The future is you continuing to progress with getting smarter
me it's contrary; I want to be as dumb as I can so that I can be famous and very known for my "so dumb that it seems smart'!! And so I can end up in the parliament of Europe Union. God help me, amen
I for one have clearly felt my intelligence rise and fall with time, based on the amount of intelligent activity I was doing on a regular basis for an extended period of time. I kind of personally concluded that exercising your brain regularly makes you an overall smarter person, but for an instant boost of intelligence, like taking a test, suspending all cognitively challenging activity for a few days prior to the deadline is the way to go.
Nah bruh that's cap you rly can't make a difference in your intelligence it's just like how your height increases over time you can't make a dramatic change and if you were able to, everyone would have done the same and genius brains wouldn't have been this rare like 5e-5%
@@earthydemon7282 Your ability to learn is definitely mostly genetic, but your efficiency while gaining knowledge (Find out how your brain retains knowledge and exploit it) and the amount of work you put in all impact your intelligence as well, so saying that it's entirely genetic is untrue.
I've reduced my brain to two brain cells - one to maintain minimal body functions and the other to figure out how to reduce my intelligence even further.
People seem to think that because there are examples of people who "try really hard" who don't succeed, they break Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule. But what does "try really hard" mean? They put in 20 hours a week for a year and tried really hard the whole time? That's only 1040 hours (if every one of those 20 hours was purely useful practice, and involved no form of procrastination). I think you'd be hard pressed to meet someone who's worked solidly between 20-40 hours a week for 5-10 years who wasn't successful
@@snackers7 that just cannot happen if you're really striving to become successful... improvement comes natural to you if you want it hard but again ofc it will always be better to try to improve yourself
Although, it has been two years after the upload of this lecture, it still holds its value in great encouragement to better oneself. Thank you very much for your time and effort.
in the future when this stuff is more understood it should be used as a lesson in schools, hopefully it could have a real positive effect in underprivileged places.
Here's what you can do about it: 1. You can neglect the fact that it, collectively, was effective, and choose not to take action because you can't determine what, individually, was or was not effective OR 2. You can do your own research into each and every one of these categories to figure out what will yield you the most results OR 3. You can take it blindly and apply these actions to your own self, despite having the risk of some of them not being effective. It just happens that because people don't have the luxury to run thousands of experiments on their own selves, they mostly choose to go with the 3rd option.
I think being "smart" is linked to perfectionism. I'm a scientist for a top university, got some of the best grades in school, and was in the top 1% in university. I still think of myself as seriously stupid, more so than anyone at work, or any of my friends. To become "smart" is impossible in some peoples standards, as although you may be perceived as such by those who see it as something simple, such as a job title or your degree classification; those of whom realise that being "smart" is multifaceted will realise that you can never truly be as such.
12:10"People that are smokers, who were smokers, have half the risk of developing parkinsons." Couldn't help but think, maybe cigarets just kill early those who have the highest risk of developing parkinsons.
Yeah, but this guy is highly biased and primed by his expectations of the outcome. Of course you will feel better if you expect to feel better through something.
My thoughts precisely. It's hard to tell from just a 15 minute video, but Dan Hurley did come across as a bit too willing to accept results that went along with his expectations. A good example is how he presented the "nicotine reduces the intensity of Parkinson's symptoms" study. From what Dan is saying, one gets the impression that it's a foregone conclusion that nicotine will have said effect on people with Parkinson's. This is likely not the case. Although the research is very interesting, the health benefits of chronic nicotine use are often unreliable or even inconclusive. Check "Beneficial Effects of Nicotine" (Jarvik, British Journal of Addiction, 1991) for more on the potential health benefits of nicotine.
Isn’t everyone biased to a degree? Is your opinion of this presentation bias due to your own beliefs on the subject? Try researching brain plasticity and neuroregeneration.
Instead of all these steps, he can improve his intellect or intelligence simply being grateful for how nature intended to his creation and tap into the dimention of meditation on finding out who he is. Body and mind are just things we accumulated over time, there is a "third" dimention which cannot be discovered by outside forces like the trainings and chemicals he mentioned, this third dimention is called the true yourself which is limitless in intellect, intelligence and know everything about you and the world out there.
I love this video so much, Dan Hurley said everything I have been thinking about for the past year when it comes to intelligence. Just like him, I have become increasingly tired of these assholes and writers who just talk about emotional development and that your intelligence is fixed. I don't believe intelligence is a fixed factor at all and I would say that everyone has the possibility to be extremely intelligent no matter what their starting point is.
it has long been the scientific consensus (inxs. 4 decades) that intelligence is not a merely a genetically fixed characteristic, but rather that it is the product of both genetics and environmental factors. Dan Hurley seems to want to pretend that this idea is only about 6 years old. In general the rendering of scientific history, scientific research and terminology in this talk was shockingly poor.
Oof, lost me the second he started talking about the tasks and definitely the luminosity movement. Luminosity turned out to be a scam in a class action. Their studies were all completely falsified. All complete pseudo science. You get good at the tasks presented to you like anything else, it doesn’t increase over all fluid intelligence. Please do not listen to this misinformation.
On the Topic of Bi-Polarity of the Human Brain (and while we’re on the subject, human intelligence and the philosophy of questions) by Ashley France Brown ‘87
I am not a scientist. I always wanted to be a scientist. Destiny, however, had another life in store for me. I want to be up front with that, so there is no misunderstanding that what I am putting forth here has ever met with academic, scientific blessing. It is, however, my experience, and an experience it has been, indeed. For what I have discovered in the period of time since I matriculated at Brown and the present has been a wealth of knowledge about the workings of the human brain - a brain mapping, of sorts. (This is a very jolly field these days, just as bi-polar disorder was the darling of the 2000’s.) And this knowledge, as so many other things in my crazy life, has come to me inside out. You see, mine was a twisted but meteoric rise. From early childhood I excelled in science, math, language, classical piano, art. At 17, I graduated a year early from high school and was accepted at Brown University. By 19, I was pregnant, penniless, and wife to what would become a physically abusive Dutchman. But failure was my motivator. By 26, I had a full-time job as a paralegal, had another baby, divorced said battering husband, and finished at Brown on a full academic scholarship (Cum Honoribus in Lingua Gallica, thank you very much!). I became (as a woman - unheard of back then) the CFO and Director of Administration of one of Providence’s three largest law firms by age 32. At 34, I attended the Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program. And then suddenly I crashed and burned. I was stricken down like Icarus by the blight (or blessing?) of severe Bi-Polar 1 Disorder, diagnosed borderline psychotic. My first nervous breakdown came in 1995, at the tender age of 34, though in retrospect I can easily trace the disorder leading up to that life-quake back to episodes with severe migraine headaches and depression in my late adolescence. And like most people who find themselves in a terribly, clinically depressed state for the first time, I believed it would be my first and ONLY time. I just needed a rest. How adorable. What followed, however, was to be years and years of cycles within cycles of depression and mania and depression, medications that turned me into a zombie, a plethora of hospital admissions, rounds and rounds of ECT (this is the politically correct term for electro-shock therapy) &c, all the while desperately trying to hold down a job and raise now three children on my own. At first I saw this, as I am sure most of you do, as a Great Tragedy - a huge sine wave traveling the x-axis of a mood graph: up and down, up and down. The brand-spanking-new DSM 5 (the Holy Bible of Psychiatric Diagnosis) would certainly agree with you. But here is the unexpected outcome of my decades-long struggle: What I have learned from such an extraordinary Odyssey is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that the sine wave of my “illness” does NOT wind along the x-axis of our mood graph, but actually winds back and forth, left to right, along the y-axis of a brain graph (i.e., the shifting back and forth of consciousness between the Left Mind and the Right Mind), with the secondary effect of changing mood. It is my experience, (and I refer you here to Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor - a real scientist - who expresses much the same experience in her wonderful TED Talk, My Stroke of Insight), that the left hemisphere of the brain works with what computer scientists call a serial processor, feeding one bit of information at a time to the Left Brain, keeping Time from past to present, calculating probabilities for the future, processing memories and conclusions in linear form. This side of the brain is uniquely involved in the functioning of Grammar - for language, for math, for music, for values. It is very clinical in its demeanor. It does not Hope, but rather rationalizes its future. Most importantly, this brain gives Voice to Mankind. Juxtapose this with the right hemisphere, which runs with a parallel processor, able to take in and process entire matrices of information in an instant, as if rather than speed reading, the entire book popped into your mind all at once. This side of the brain, redundancy notwithstanding, controls our sense of color, of pattern, of space, of dance and play and creativity and aesthetics. A cyclical beast, the right hemisphere exists in a perpetual state of emotional joy and happiness, where the Hope valve is always fully open, and all possibilities exist. The Right Brain is a world where Time is substituted with Eternal Peace. It is at One with the Universe. And yet, it has no language, no Voice with which to speak. All of which brings us back to our sine wave. Given my history with “mental illness,” what I am proposing here is that what we refer to as the “severe” mental illnesses are a result of the Right Brain shutting itself off from the Left Brain. To use an analogy, the Left Brain is the little brother, darling and sharp, but hopelessly annoying, and the Right Brain is its older sister, kind and patient, exponentially brighter, but not unwilling to smack her sibling upside the head every now and again. Left alone in the cold and rational left side of the brain, is it any wonder that one becomes distraught? Left alone without voice in the right side of the brain, is it any wonder that one bangs his or her head against the wall? Most people are not consciously in control of the workings of the Right Brain, thus the speculation that we only use about 10% of our actual brain power. We can see examples of right-hemisphere consciousness, however, in people who are musically, artistically, physically creative, in people who are left handed, in people who exhibit genius or savant, and in people who fall along the spectrum of brain “disorders” from schizophrenia to bi-polar to autism to Asperger’s to ADHD and dyslexia. I will recommend here that you take a look at the TED Talk of Dr. Temple Grandin on the subject (The World Needs All Kinds of Minds). She also bears the academic credentials that I do not. It is my opinion that these “mental illnesses” are only deemed to be illnesses by people who generally have little or no conscious control of the Right Brain. Sadly, we have come to this wretched prejudice toward the “mentally ill” simply because it is very rare for a person who lives consciously in the Right Mind to be able to give Voice that mind, as language ability is restricted to Broca’s Cortex located in the left hemisphere of the brain. Ergo, what we have misconstrued as “idiotic” or “irrational” is actually a simple problem of Translation and, as I noted in the beginning of this piece. I just happen to be one of the lucky few who have both a conscious Left and Right Mind, and a breadth of knowledge of foreign languages that has enabled me, after around 20 years of Solitary Confinement in my own brain, to have discovered a Center Mind, the Great Arbitrator and Translator, the Mother in the Middle that seems so elusive to our general experience as Homo sapiens. This, my friends, is syzygy. The world of psychiatry is in its primitive state, hundreds of years behind the world of other medicine. Worse, the deck is stacked by Left-Brain thinkers, who make up IQ tests and other means of psychometrics. Still, this discovery of mine does not intrude on the general knowledge of the psychology of personality development, nor is it particularly helpful for the growing number of people suffering from stress-related depression. It does, however, suggest a new direction for psychiatry and the treatment of the more severe “disabilities,” what I will call Translation Deficiencies common to most people, “mentally ill” or not. Niels Bohr once said that an Expert is a person who has found out, by his own painful experience, all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field. Using this definition, I will call myself something of an expert in neuro-hemispherical translation. Yet my purpose here is certainly not self-aggrandizement, but rather a most humble pleading with the psychiatric community to take another look at what we are doing to those millions of our fellow Human Beings, myself included, whose only “problem” is the inability of the rest of the World to understand their perspective. I am beseeching someone in psychiatric academia to work with me in documenting and growing this method of treating the “mentally ill” or, to put it more bluntly, I wish to change the current psychiatric paradigm (freshly minted in the DSM 5). Brown University is notorious in the Ivy League for its philosophy of teaching its students how to ask the right questions, rather than how to give the right answers. The question is, is anyone up for the challenge of shifting paradigms? Who would like to learn to speak Right Brain? I am certainly willing to translate…
That's funny! I'm high on the moderate functioning level of autism spectrum & mentally challenged, and I wish to be a a genius to free myself from not fitting in the neurotypical culture, being taken advantage of, getting peered pressured to act and think as in a current level of a functioning I'm in, & more situations I am facing! Like getting attention that doesn't make me feel too comfortable.
One of the biggest ways to get smarter is to sleep well. Look up how industrialization->Modernization along with the phasing out of the biphasic sleep cycle in the Mediterranean countries has done to health outcomes. The hippocampus is meant for short-term learning and memory storage but it definitely has a capacity that can be hit during a day's work. A nap deep enough to activate your sleep spindles allows for the transfer of short-term to long-term memory and therefore clears up your hippocampus for more learning.
I wish he had mentioned what it did (or didn't do ) to his iq score before and after he trained his brain and mentioned research in relation to change in iq
Totally misinterpreted Malcolm's book with 10,000 hours theory. On contrary Malcolm saus that being successful is very complex to predict or understand.
Ppl always do do this, when a lot of ppl talk about being successful they don’t really mean it’s a promise if you work hard you will reach bill gates or Elon musk. They are saying that will be your best cards to play if you are trying to achieve it.
Life will be a lot easier if people researched and tried it out themselves instead of judging.. the western world likes watching instead of doing. Even though I was born and raised in a western world I always hated their characteristics for some strange reason. Like this isn't how life is suppose to be and everyone is brainwashed in some way.
I have had problems with my short-term and working memory for most of my life. It made it really hard to get through school and to this day I often have trouble with some tasks. I've started doing some memory exercises. I really hope that they help. I feel really embarrassed sometimes that I have trouble with the things that I do. :(
Henry Mclaughlin Hi i know its been a year, but have you found any thing that worked? I too struggle mentally with practical tasks. I find NoFap( the testerone rentention) helps boost mental faculties.
Kenny Bell I really haven't found anything other than just forcing myself to focus. That seems to have helped a bit since it's steadily getting easier and I'm having to force myself less and less.
Learn something and then close your eyes. When your eyes are open it takes about the amount of brain that your hands clasped behind your head takes up. When you temporarily disable your visual sense by closing your eyes, you free up more cognitive reserve, enabling you the possibility to double your chances in retaining what you just learned. Sleep is almost directly related to memory consolidation. So wakeful resting should be just as beneficial.
BTW, the N back test also has been shown not to improve general cognitive function. No matter how hideously difficult or strenuous mental exercise you do, you will not become any smarter as a result.I used to do sudoku 2 hours a day, brain training games on the computer.Ive been learning piano for 8 years.Now I'm still hopelessly stupid, forgetful, and slow learning. Brain training doesnt make you any smarter, end of story...
Same I have used brain training for years playing chess, poker... Learning languages..reading, using nootropics..like I spend thousands of euros.. Still stupid af other people never even do anything but at work I am the most person
I am in awe of the speakers credentials and all the smart people listening to him. I wish he had answered one question in support of his assertions i.e. did his performance on validated intelligence tests improve after the exercises he undertook? What anecdotal evidence can he offer that he was actually smarter from training his mind. Incidentally the site noted above either doesn't exist or is a wrong address.
Khalid Kamal Intelligence can CHANGE! You don't have to score 99.9% in any intelligence test to prove how intelligent you are! Just that each human has the capability to change/increase his/her intelligence level from the level he/she presently is! Think about it.........Let's say,your current intelligence level is "5". You can increase it upto '7'! It doesn't matter if the super intelligent people have the score of '20'. You don't have to get to '20' to prove that you are like them,super intelligent. You don't need to be like them! The point is,you can change your current intelligence level!!!
Some aspects of intelligence seem to be improvable, like working memory, but some don't, like IQ. Knowledge and specific skills can of course be improved.
You can always raise your IQ. The brain is always changing, it’s whether or not the person wants to encourage the change. Brain plasticity: the brains ability to heal and reorganize itself
Honestly I dont know where I stand on this. It just seems that people cant even define what intelligence is. I think you could probably affect it even if it's just a little, but I'm not sure. I definitely know genetics has a role here, but I definitely believe that you can increase your intelligence in at least some ways. It would be allot easier if people could give us a hard definition of intelligence. I think perhaps there are multiple intelligence's, people can be smart in different ways. There's just too much we dont understand in my opinion.
The advanced Ravens progressive matrices (which he mentioned he improved on) is the highest correlate with g (general cognitive ability) out of all individual cognitive tests. Working memory is also a constituent of iq tests.
I agree. When you watch a lot of videos even a 5 second intro is annoying. Just start the video, 1-2s wait is all that's tolerable. And this intro is 30 seconds long! It's only a very minor inconvenience of course, yet it should be permitted to mention it.
Im sure this was a nice talk, but because of that god forsaken fucking American style of raising every final sound of every spoken part of the sentence like there's a point to it forced me to turn this off.
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Who can explain it to me? This guy believed that not only hard work but also intelligence does matter, and he tried to prove that people is able to "improve" the intelligence by progressive practices, which is another kind of hard working......
for those tl:dw he gives 7 ways to make yourself smarter:
1. N-back online
2. Exercise
3. Music training
4. mindfulness meditation
5. Lumosity - brain training
6. Transcranial Direct-Current stimulation
7. Nicotine patch - 7mg per day
5. Lumosity - brain training
www.statnews.com/2016/09/06/lumosity-reels-federal-crackdown/
By the way it has been said that game training often time improves the score of the game rather than one's general intelligent.
the N Back online website he mentioned
www.soakyourhead.com
Thanx
Oh yes, because all smart people encourage nicotine addiction.
no freaking way he said nic,✨👄✨
If you looked for this video, that very action says yes you can make yourself smarter. If you've been on any kind of knowledge quest, just think of how much smarter you are now. The future is you continuing to progress with getting smarter
I've been obsessed with becoming smart since 2014. I just want to be a genius and go to Yale University, Georgetown University, and Harvard. :(
+MyOwnPrivateAlex90s you are not alone on this.
+Empress glad to know that I'm not alone. :)
me it's contrary; I want to be as dumb as I can so that I can be famous and very known for my "so dumb that it seems smart'!! And so I can end up in the parliament of Europe Union. God help me, amen
River!
Fragilay :D
Iam always watching this kind of videos when i do pot.
Me rn 😭😭
Crackhead
Lmfao as I’m rolling a blunt I look down at comment and you say this shits too funny bruh
Lmaooo
When I do pot😭
I have met some really dumb people in university... In my opinion, knowledge do not always equal intelligence.
I see it as problem solving or having an idea that nobody thought about
True
It never equals tbh
Jari The Sauna Lover True. I know some people who graduated from an university and they are dumber than people who didn’t went to an university.
M de Boer So watching makeup tutorials and “girly” vlogs means I’m dumb? Wow. What a stupid reply. Give me some evidence though.
This is wonderful news for me. Now I can stop blaming my failures in exams on predetermined intellect and start doing something about it. Thanks!
How did it go?
@@sangaylala1924 hahahahahahhahahahahhaa
I for one have clearly felt my intelligence rise and fall with time, based on the amount of intelligent activity I was doing on a regular basis for an extended period of time. I kind of personally concluded that exercising your brain regularly makes you an overall smarter person, but for an instant boost of intelligence, like taking a test, suspending all cognitively challenging activity for a few days prior to the deadline is the way to go.
My thoughts exactly!
parvezparu87 Then I must ask you, if your account is still active; what sort of mentally stimulating activities did you do to sharpen your mind?
@@OVOFloyd probably basic problem solving is good. Also learning to remember things easier and better can help
Human brain is like any other organs such as muscles, the more you exercise it, the better it becomes.
you just believe that, or you saying it based on experience or scientific researches.
Well repetition does make synapses strong.
Nah bruh that's cap you rly can't make a difference in your intelligence it's just like how your height increases over time you can't make a dramatic change and if you were able to, everyone would have done the same and genius brains wouldn't have been this rare like 5e-5%
And yes intelligence is genetic,it increases about 3 iq points in 10 years till 25 years of age
@@earthydemon7282 Your ability to learn is definitely mostly genetic, but your efficiency while gaining knowledge (Find out how your brain retains knowledge and exploit it) and the amount of work you put in all impact your intelligence as well, so saying that it's entirely genetic is untrue.
I've reduced my brain to two brain cells - one to maintain minimal body functions and the other to figure out how to reduce my intelligence even further.
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He looks abut like Walter white and a healthy ghandi
That's spot on lol
Sayyid Al-Hassan w
@FaZe Censorr Mahatma Gandhi not ghandi :/
Sm dl all so so
Say his name
People seem to think that because there are examples of people who "try really hard" who don't succeed, they break Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule. But what does "try really hard" mean? They put in 20 hours a week for a year and tried really hard the whole time? That's only 1040 hours (if every one of those 20 hours was purely useful practice, and involved no form of procrastination). I think you'd be hard pressed to meet someone who's worked solidly between 20-40 hours a week for 5-10 years who wasn't successful
Maybe they don't improve their work methods
@@snackers7 that just cannot happen if you're really striving to become successful... improvement comes natural to you if you want it hard but again ofc it will always be better to try to improve yourself
Although, it has been two years after the upload of this lecture, it still holds its value in great encouragement to better oneself. Thank you very much for your time and effort.
Flowers for Algernon was one of my favorite stories from 8th grade.
Wtf same
in the future when this stuff is more understood it should be used as a lesson in schools, hopefully it could have a real positive effect in underprivileged places.
He did so many things at once that it is hard to say what was effective.
Here's what you can do about it:
1. You can neglect the fact that it, collectively, was effective, and choose not to take action because you can't determine what, individually, was or was not effective
OR
2. You can do your own research into each and every one of these categories to figure out what will yield you the most results
OR
3. You can take it blindly and apply these actions to your own self, despite having the risk of some of them not being effective.
It just happens that because people don't have the luxury to run thousands of experiments on their own selves, they mostly choose to go with the 3rd option.
@@sharshabillian truly valuable
I think being "smart" is linked to perfectionism. I'm a scientist for a top university, got some of the best grades in school, and was in the top 1% in university. I still think of myself as seriously stupid, more so than anyone at work, or any of my friends. To become "smart" is impossible in some peoples standards, as although you may be perceived as such by those who see it as something simple, such as a job title or your degree classification; those of whom realise that being "smart" is multifaceted will realise that you can never truly be as such.
Scientist who watches PewDiePie? Oh ok, I sure believe you are a scientist 🤡
12:10"People that are smokers, who were smokers, have half the risk of developing parkinsons."
Couldn't help but think, maybe cigarets just kill early those who have the highest risk of developing parkinsons.
Risk is not related to lifespan in this context
People underestimate the placebo effect.
Yeah, but this guy is highly biased and primed by his expectations of the outcome. Of course you will feel better if you expect to feel better through something.
My thoughts precisely. It's hard to tell from just a 15 minute video, but Dan Hurley did come across as a bit too willing to accept results that went along with his expectations.
A good example is how he presented the "nicotine reduces the intensity of Parkinson's symptoms" study. From what Dan is saying, one gets the impression that it's a foregone conclusion that nicotine will have said effect on people with Parkinson's. This is likely not the case. Although the research is very interesting, the health benefits of chronic nicotine use are often unreliable or even inconclusive.
Check "Beneficial Effects of Nicotine" (Jarvik, British Journal of Addiction, 1991) for more on the potential health benefits of nicotine.
Isn’t everyone biased to a degree? Is your opinion of this presentation bias due to your own beliefs on the subject? Try researching brain plasticity and neuroregeneration.
I've been looking for this forever
you don't need to become smarter. What you need to do is become the best you can be, b.c most people have even reached their full potential.
Smart people seem to have hair loss problem ...
Frank Lucero Not bald, not as intelligent as other cientists, but had much more imagination than any other.
Knowledgable people are usually bald. Geniuses usually have the most fucked up hair you've ever seen.
tai ming Wong grass never grows on a busy street
tai ming Wong professor x
Might be because of the stress of the job a intelligent person has
''Spiderman made me smarter''
-------________--------
lol
Loco Edgi he said when was kid
It is true
Spider-Man got me interested in science back in primary school. Now I’m a physics university student hoping to be an accomplished scientist.
Bunndog that’s really great spider man definitely got me into science a lot too I’m not sure what I should major yet tho
Instead of all these steps, he can improve his intellect or intelligence simply being grateful for how nature intended to his creation and tap into the dimention of meditation on finding out who he is. Body and mind are just things we accumulated over time, there is a "third" dimention which cannot be discovered by outside forces like the trainings and chemicals he mentioned, this third dimention is called the true yourself which is limitless in intellect, intelligence and know everything about you and the world out there.
looks like "healthy" gandhi!
***** kinda like "Bill murray" on some angles
never this man is not racist
Looks like a white Gandhi
This couldn't get more academic... However he gave some good explanations.
I love this video so much, Dan Hurley said everything I have been thinking about for the past year when it comes to intelligence. Just like him, I have become increasingly tired of these assholes and writers who just talk about emotional development and that your intelligence is fixed. I don't believe intelligence is a fixed factor at all and I would say that everyone has the possibility to be extremely intelligent no matter what their starting point is.
it has long been the scientific consensus (inxs. 4 decades) that intelligence is not a merely a genetically fixed characteristic, but rather that it is the product of both genetics and environmental factors. Dan Hurley seems to want to pretend that this idea is only about 6 years old. In general the rendering of scientific history, scientific research and terminology in this talk was shockingly poor.
Very cool, but not a whole lot of science.
Oof, lost me the second he started talking about the tasks and definitely the luminosity movement. Luminosity turned out to be a scam in a class action. Their studies were all completely falsified.
All complete pseudo science. You get good at the tasks presented to you like anything else, it doesn’t increase over all fluid intelligence. Please do not listen to this misinformation.
On the Topic of Bi-Polarity of the Human Brain
(and while we’re on the subject, human intelligence and the philosophy of questions)
by Ashley France
Brown ‘87
I am not a scientist. I always wanted to be a scientist. Destiny, however, had another life in store for me. I want to be up front with that, so there is no misunderstanding that what I am putting forth here has ever met with academic, scientific blessing. It is, however, my experience, and an experience it has been, indeed. For what I have discovered in the period of time since I matriculated at Brown and the present has been a wealth of knowledge about the workings of the human brain - a brain mapping, of sorts. (This is a very jolly field these days, just as bi-polar disorder was the darling of the 2000’s.) And this knowledge, as so many other things in my crazy life, has come to me inside out.
You see, mine was a twisted but meteoric rise. From early childhood I excelled in science, math, language, classical piano, art. At 17, I graduated a year early from high school and was accepted at Brown University. By 19, I was pregnant, penniless, and wife to what would become a physically abusive Dutchman. But failure was my motivator. By 26, I had a full-time job as a paralegal, had another baby, divorced said battering husband, and finished at Brown on a full academic scholarship (Cum Honoribus in Lingua Gallica, thank you very much!). I became (as a woman - unheard of back then) the CFO and Director of Administration of one of Providence’s three largest law firms by age 32. At 34, I attended the Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program. And then suddenly I crashed and burned.
I was stricken down like Icarus by the blight (or blessing?) of severe Bi-Polar 1 Disorder, diagnosed borderline psychotic. My first nervous breakdown came in 1995, at the tender age of 34, though in retrospect I can easily trace the disorder leading up to that life-quake back to episodes with severe migraine headaches and depression in my late adolescence. And like most people who find themselves in a terribly, clinically depressed state for the first time, I believed it would be my first and ONLY time. I just needed a rest. How adorable. What followed, however, was to be years and years of cycles within cycles of depression and mania and depression, medications that turned me into a zombie, a plethora of hospital admissions, rounds and rounds of ECT (this is the politically correct term for electro-shock therapy) &c, all the while desperately trying to hold down a job and raise now three children on my own.
At first I saw this, as I am sure most of you do, as a Great Tragedy - a huge sine wave traveling the x-axis of a mood graph: up and down, up and down. The brand-spanking-new DSM 5 (the Holy Bible of Psychiatric Diagnosis) would certainly agree with you. But here is the unexpected outcome of my decades-long struggle: What I have learned from such an extraordinary Odyssey is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that the sine wave of my “illness” does NOT wind along the x-axis of our mood graph, but actually winds back and forth, left to right, along the y-axis of a brain graph (i.e., the shifting back and forth of consciousness between the Left Mind and the Right Mind), with the secondary effect of changing mood.
It is my experience, (and I refer you here to Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor - a real scientist - who expresses much the same experience in her wonderful TED Talk, My Stroke of Insight), that the left hemisphere of the brain works with what computer scientists call a serial processor, feeding one bit of information at a time to the Left Brain, keeping Time from past to present, calculating probabilities for the future, processing memories and conclusions in linear form. This side of the brain is uniquely involved in the functioning of Grammar - for language, for math, for music, for values. It is very clinical in its demeanor. It does not Hope, but rather rationalizes its future. Most importantly, this brain gives Voice to Mankind.
Juxtapose this with the right hemisphere, which runs with a parallel processor, able to take in and process entire matrices of information in an instant, as if rather than speed reading, the entire book popped into your mind all at once. This side of the brain, redundancy notwithstanding, controls our sense of color, of pattern, of space, of dance and play and creativity and aesthetics. A cyclical beast, the right hemisphere exists in a perpetual state of emotional joy and happiness, where the Hope valve is always fully open, and all possibilities exist. The Right Brain is a world where Time is substituted with Eternal Peace. It is at One with the Universe. And yet, it has no language, no Voice with which to speak.
All of which brings us back to our sine wave. Given my history with “mental illness,” what I am proposing here is that what we refer to as the “severe” mental illnesses are a result of the Right Brain shutting itself off from the Left Brain. To use an analogy, the Left Brain is the little brother, darling and sharp, but hopelessly annoying, and the Right Brain is its older sister, kind and patient, exponentially brighter, but not unwilling to smack her sibling upside the head every now and again. Left alone in the cold and rational left side of the brain, is it any wonder that one becomes distraught? Left alone without voice in the right side of the brain, is it any wonder that one bangs his or her head against the wall?
Most people are not consciously in control of the workings of the Right Brain, thus the speculation that we only use about 10% of our actual brain power. We can see examples of right-hemisphere consciousness, however, in people who are musically, artistically, physically creative, in people who are left handed, in people who exhibit genius or savant, and in people who fall along the spectrum of brain “disorders” from schizophrenia to bi-polar to autism to Asperger’s to ADHD and dyslexia. I will recommend here that you take a look at the TED Talk of Dr. Temple Grandin on the subject (The World Needs All Kinds of Minds). She also bears the academic credentials that I do not.
It is my opinion that these “mental illnesses” are only deemed to be illnesses by people who generally have little or no conscious control of the Right Brain. Sadly, we have come to this wretched prejudice toward the “mentally ill” simply because it is very rare for a person who lives consciously in the Right Mind to be able to give Voice that mind, as language ability is restricted to Broca’s Cortex located in the left hemisphere of the brain. Ergo, what we have misconstrued as “idiotic” or “irrational” is actually a simple problem of Translation and, as I noted in the beginning of this piece. I just happen to be one of the lucky few who have both a conscious Left and Right Mind, and a breadth of knowledge of foreign languages that has enabled me, after around 20 years of Solitary Confinement in my own brain, to have discovered a Center Mind, the Great Arbitrator and Translator, the Mother in the Middle that seems so elusive to our general experience as Homo sapiens. This, my friends, is syzygy.
The world of psychiatry is in its primitive state, hundreds of years behind the world of other medicine. Worse, the deck is stacked by Left-Brain thinkers, who make up IQ tests and other means of psychometrics. Still, this discovery of mine does not intrude on the general knowledge of the psychology of personality development, nor is it particularly helpful for the growing number of people suffering from stress-related depression. It does, however, suggest a new direction for psychiatry and the treatment of the more severe “disabilities,” what I will call Translation Deficiencies common to most people, “mentally ill” or not.
Niels Bohr once said that an Expert is a person who has found out, by his own painful experience, all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field. Using this definition, I will call myself something of an expert in neuro-hemispherical translation. Yet my purpose here is certainly not self-aggrandizement, but rather a most humble pleading with the psychiatric community to take another look at what we are doing to those millions of our fellow Human Beings, myself included, whose only “problem” is the inability of the rest of the World to understand their perspective. I am beseeching someone in psychiatric academia to work with me in documenting and growing this method of treating the “mentally ill” or, to put it more bluntly, I wish to change the current psychiatric paradigm (freshly minted in the DSM 5).
Brown University is notorious in the Ivy League for its philosophy of teaching its students how to ask the right questions, rather than how to give the right answers. The question is, is anyone up for the challenge of shifting paradigms? Who would like to learn to speak Right Brain? I am certainly willing to translate…
Northampton, MA
14 February, 2014
That's funny! I'm high on the moderate functioning level of autism spectrum & mentally challenged, and I wish to be a a genius to free myself from not fitting in the neurotypical culture, being taken advantage of, getting peered pressured to act and think as in a current level of a functioning I'm in, & more situations I am facing! Like getting attention that doesn't make me feel too comfortable.
One of the biggest ways to get smarter is to sleep well. Look up how industrialization->Modernization along with the phasing out of the biphasic sleep cycle in the Mediterranean countries has done to health outcomes. The hippocampus is meant for short-term learning and memory storage but it definitely has a capacity that can be hit during a day's work. A nap deep enough to activate your sleep spindles allows for the transfer of short-term to long-term memory and therefore clears up your hippocampus for more learning.
The lute!!? That proves you are intelligent.
Absolutely! I believe that I can make myself smarter.
I wish he had mentioned what it did (or didn't do ) to his iq score before and after he trained his brain and mentioned research in relation to change in iq
He mentioned the paper by Susanna jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehi. It’s called improving fluid intelligence with working memory training
And you know? And like, the thing? Because it worked, kind of? And every sentence is ended like a question?
Totally misinterpreted Malcolm's book with 10,000 hours theory.
On contrary Malcolm saus that being successful is very complex to predict or understand.
Ppl always do do this, when a lot of ppl talk about being successful they don’t really mean it’s a promise if you work hard you will reach bill gates or Elon musk. They are saying that will be your best cards to play if you are trying to achieve it.
@@yayhayes Yes, and it's always global answers
I was getting C's and B's in English and now I have been getting A's for a while now so if I am able to become smarter then anyone can.
Dawn WOODWARD *than
4:35 Dude in crowd is dead asleep lol
he is a mix between Mike and Heisenberg....
8:00 working memory
I did not understand what he said at 9:00 something like N L L and repeating it . Can anyone tell what it was.
I'm stupid help
Good lecture...
Love this video👍
The moment he said Lumosity has good some good effects I know the talk is B.S.
why do you say that? i would like to know why Lumosity is a cause of making the talk BS
EDIT: Nvm i found out why lol
I love your videos
I'm so dumb. I'm a failure and a lost cause. I want to be smart but I'm dumb forever
A .S you read?
Life will be a lot easier if people researched and tried it out themselves instead of judging.. the western world likes watching instead of doing. Even though I was born and raised in a western world I always hated their characteristics for some strange reason. Like this isn't how life is suppose to be and everyone is brainwashed in some way.
Every episode of Dr. STONE I watch I feel like a 5Head
The brain never stops. So many people in the comments have little understanding about brain plasticity, as well as neurogenesis and brain regeneration
Something new/naval it has to be challenging! 👍
transcranial direct current stimulation 👍🏻👏🏻
"THERE ARE ALOT OF STUDIES"
noodlery 👋
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I’m just seven and I want to be smart
Reads tonnes of books, and read some more books. And some more
I have had problems with my short-term and working memory for most of my life. It made it really hard to get through school and to this day I often have trouble with some tasks.
I've started doing some memory exercises. I really hope that they help. I feel really embarrassed sometimes that I have trouble with the things that I do. :(
Henry Mclaughlin Hi i know its been a year, but have you found any thing that worked? I too struggle mentally with practical tasks. I find NoFap( the testerone rentention) helps boost mental faculties.
Kenny Bell I really haven't found anything other than just forcing myself to focus. That seems to have helped a bit since it's steadily getting easier and I'm having to force myself less and less.
Henry Mclaughlin hey maybe you should look at memory techniques used in the memory championships.
Joshua foer has a really interesting talk on ted.
Learn something and then close your eyes. When your eyes are open it takes about the amount of brain that your hands clasped behind your head takes up. When you temporarily disable your visual sense by closing your eyes, you free up more cognitive reserve, enabling you the possibility to double your chances in retaining what you just learned. Sleep is almost directly related to memory consolidation. So wakeful resting should be just as beneficial.
Same here and I'm only 24, its very embarrassing.
BTW, the N back test also has been shown not to improve general cognitive function. No matter how hideously difficult or strenuous mental exercise you do, you will not become any smarter as a result.I used to do sudoku 2 hours a day, brain training games on the computer.Ive been learning piano for 8 years.Now I'm still hopelessly stupid, forgetful, and slow learning. Brain training doesnt make you any smarter, end of story...
Same I have used brain training for years playing chess, poker...
Learning languages..reading, using nootropics..like I spend thousands of euros.. Still stupid af other people never even do anything but at work I am the most person
You should probably put a disclaimer that you don't want people who have never touched nicotine to go start using it.
Me three hours before my exam:
I am in awe of the speakers credentials and all the smart people listening to him. I wish he had answered one question in support of his assertions i.e. did his performance on validated intelligence tests improve after the exercises he undertook? What anecdotal evidence can he offer that he was actually smarter from training his mind. Incidentally the site noted above either doesn't exist or is a wrong address.
Khalid Kamal Intelligence can CHANGE! You don't have to score 99.9% in any intelligence test to prove how intelligent you are! Just that each human has the capability to change/increase his/her intelligence level from the level he/she presently is! Think about it.........Let's say,your current intelligence level is "5". You can increase it upto '7'! It doesn't matter if the super intelligent people have the score of '20'. You don't have to get to '20' to prove that you are like them,super intelligent. You don't need to be like them! The point is,you can change your current intelligence level!!!
My dear fellow, all I am saying did he have himself tested before and after the training to see if it made a difference.
Khalid Kamal He answers that in the video. He says hes score went up by 16% from before to after.
Thank you for your post.
Summary? Anyone? Please?
Guy looks like a villain in a movie. His name could be Dr Evil
MrGeneralHack Dead!
Yeah, Brazil!!!
Wisdom.
Demonstrating that a hypothesis leads to evil results is not an argument for why it's false.
is it normal that he looks like Rashkovsky from that heist in gta online
Ikr
Blazicade someone stated that he looked like Walter white and a healthy ghandi
Has anyone tried donepezil?
9:07, 'pretty easy'... and then he proceeds to fail!
Interesting stuff though
True
I’m surprised this wasn’t a TED talk.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Some aspects of intelligence seem to be improvable, like working memory, but some don't, like IQ. Knowledge and specific skills can of course be improved.
You can always raise your IQ. The brain is always changing, it’s whether or not the person wants to encourage the change. Brain plasticity: the brains ability to heal and reorganize itself
Facts it’s a difference between intelligence and G factor.
Honestly I dont know where I stand on this. It just seems that people cant even define what intelligence is. I think you could probably affect it even if it's just a little, but I'm not sure. I definitely know genetics has a role here, but I definitely believe that you can increase your intelligence in at least some ways. It would be allot easier if people could give us a hard definition of intelligence. I think perhaps there are multiple intelligence's, people can be smart in different ways. There's just too much we dont understand in my opinion.
The advanced Ravens progressive matrices (which he mentioned he improved on) is the highest correlate with g (general cognitive ability) out of all individual cognitive tests. Working memory is also a constituent of iq tests.
Smarter as in wiser? Yes. More intelligent? No.
My family says Im dumb so here I am trying get smart
Can i be a smarter like others
Nice shirt
Not electricity or nicotine ? Nicotinic receptors in your brain
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am already a gineuswill b smrter 2moz
How's the example with Beatles relevant to intelligence and working hard...
Apparently they practice's for up to 13 hours a day five days a week or something ridiculous like that!
8 days a week
I gave up after two weeks
i'm sort of sick of the introduction to these videos by now. 1 funny quote and 2 idiotic ones.
which is the funny and which would you consider 'idiotic'
first one is a joke about economers making silly assumptions,
I agree. When you watch a lot of videos even a 5 second intro is annoying. Just start the video, 1-2s wait is all that's tolerable. And this intro is 30 seconds long! It's only a very minor inconvenience of course, yet it should be permitted to mention it.
selvmordspilot hihihuhuhuh
Im sure this was a nice talk, but because of that god forsaken fucking American style of raising every final sound of every spoken part of the sentence like there's a point to it forced me to turn this off.
kind of ridiculous that you can't sit down and simply watch a video because you don't like how someone sounds...
kind of ridiculous that you can't sit down and simply watch a video because you don't like how someone sounds...
+Terirev Rawr He is mediating information verbally. His voice is irritating. Therefore I cannot absorb the info.
@@Dazzletoad the end of the world ohh no lol
He looks like the brain from pinky and the brain, but in human form.
ระบบแม่ง มีมันอยู่ในโลกและ จักรวาลนี้
ไว้แค่ " รอ บอก คนๆเดียวว่า "
"มันคือ ทุกสรรพสิ่ง ในจักรวาล "
ไม่มีมึงบอก โลกคงต้องอดตายมั้ง
สำคัญชิบหาย
all our us me หลัง กู enter and search
I used to have an IQ of 152 at the age of 18, now at 37 my iq is 135.
if you don't realize the answer within the first minute i have bad news
You mixed up many things.. Now u won't know what improved what.. Forgot food and exercise and genetics
Cognitive dissonance is a lack of belief and practise.
For her lady fingership, barreness von glove.
Hey man don't you be lying cuz I got my life riding on this shitnow
He changed his behavior, but how is that smart?
Of course one can make one's self smarter.
YES WE CAN Obama 2016!!
the guy was falling in sleep in the front
Who can explain it to me? This guy believed that not only hard work but also intelligence does matter, and he tried to prove that people is able to "improve" the intelligence by progressive practices, which is another kind of hard working......
Yuting Deng "He tried to prove that people is able to improve they intelligence!" lol
My dumb brain unable to understand the exercise he's doing and hearing : n l l n a l l n a l
i bet he has tried nootropic drugs too