How can I get smarter in 2007?

Question

My new year's resolution is to get smarter this year. Any ideas on where to get started?

Answer 1

Read, read, read. Read all knids of things from journals to magazines to self help books to fiction. Play scrabble and do crossword puzzles and sudoku. Learn to play bridge and chess. Enrol in a course that you know nothing about. Learn about multiple intelligences and try to do some things using one of them that is not your strength so that you have to stretch yourself a little to do the tasks.

Answer 2

By studying every night. There is no short cut way to success. It takes hard work to be able to succeed in anything you do. So start studying now. If you mean being "smart" generally, then you have you have to develop the habit of reading. Be well informed. Smart people are usually those who can actively contribute to a conversation, You can only do this if you are a wide reader. Start reading on general information, science, latest news, etc. You will be amazed at how people will call you smart, just because you were able to explain what "lipoproteinemia" means. Good luck.

Answer 3

Pick a fairly narrow subject in which you are interested (e.g. history is to broad. Maybe the American Revolution or women's rights or the fall of the Soviet Union), and read ten books about it. You will be pretty well informed about that subject.
Or
Read a good newspaper every day--the NY Times, the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, or the Wall Street Journal.
Or
Go to the site Arts and Letters Daily (http://www.aldaily.com/) and read to articles to which they link.

Answer 4

Go to Wikipedia every day and read the featured article.

You'll soon find youself clicking on loads of links and building up a great store of knowledge

Answer 5

You should check out www.smartonthego.com, that way you can listen to the CDs while you drive. Thats what I did, I learned a lot.

Answer 6

well, you use correct grammar and spelling, so yahoo! answers probably isn't the best place...