1.Exercising Your Brain
Work on puzzles like the Rubik's cube. Doing puzzles like these will keep your brain working and increase your mental capabilities. Your brain is a muscle: you have to exercise it!
Sudoku is a great puzzle to try to solve and it expands your thinking. These can be purchased in books, are often printed in newspapers, and are easily found for free online.
Do artistic activities. Drawing, sculpting, painting and other arts unleash your creative side and expand your problem-solving skills. A creative brain can think outside the box to find ways to get things done better and faster.
Do math. Learn how to do mental sums or speed math. The hard thinking that is required for math will make your brain work hard and help develop the connections that will help you think better and faster.
Write stories or poetry. Creative writing forces your brain to work on inventing situations and dialogue, characters and environments. This will make you a better thinker and help you process information. Using language like this will also improve your vocabulary and speech. Writing is also a fantastic way of expressing yourself and your thoughts.
2.Developing Your People Skills
Simplify. Talking about things that no one else can understand does not make you smart. Genius is the ability to translate the complex into the simple. Practice explaining concepts to others. See just how simple and clear you can make your explanations.
Learn to listen carefully to others' opinions about controversial things or things they know about and you do not. You do not have to agree with them but remember everybody has something to teach you. Asking questions may allow you to re-evaluate your own beliefs, or point out the flaws in theirs. Keep an open mind. The more intelligent you are the more questions you will ask of the people around you.
Be nice to people. Practicing kindness in the face of challenges is a sign of maturity, class, and intelligence. Remember that you also have a lot to learn from other people. Being kind to them will allow you access to their lives and experience. Who knows what you might learn?
3.Educating Yourself
Aim to educate yourself. Keep in mind education isn't the junk you are forced to do in school for diplomas and degrees; it's an understanding of the world around you. People who are naturally curious for some reason begin to stop asking questions the moment they hit school. The truly brilliant mind, however, always questions their world and tries to make sense out of it. That is the secret to "genius".
Try teaching yourself. You can even learn from your life experiences, sometimes called "unschooling".
Work on your vocabulary. Use a few definitions from the dictionary each day, or subscribe to a "word-of-the-day" service online. You can also take the vocabulary tests in Readers Digest or buy a book on increasing your working vocabulary. Read the dictionary one word at a time. This will take you at least a year but you will grow intellectually.
Read a variety of books. Reading is a productive hobby to have and can help you learn all kinds of new things. You may not always enjoy it, but reading will open up your mind to a variety of new ideas and experiences. Browse whatever books you find interesting and insightful. Many people recommend reading every day.
Educate yourself about the world around you. Cultivate an interest in subjects like current events, interesting facts, funny and inspiring quotations, good books and movies, scientific studies and interesting inventions. Educational television, like PBS, is a great way to learn. Learning to think critically about the world around you by being aware of cause and effect in events will make you much smarter.
4.Developing Good Habits
Ask questions often. Asking questions and questioning everything around us constantly is what makes us smarter. There's nothing wrong with not knowing the whys or the hows! Everybody has something that they don't know. But by developing a healthy habit about asking when you don't know something, you'll find yourself getting smarter and smarter.
Set goals once a week. Ask yourself during each goal-setting session, how many of last week's goals did I achieve? Why didn't I accomplish some of my goals and what can I do to give myself a greater chance of success?
Always learn. There are many sources of information out there. For example, books, documentaries, and the internet. School is just one source of information. If you have straight A's, that doesn't mean that you are smart. Exercising an open mind will make you more intelligent and constantly learning will help you get there.
5.Expanding Your Horizons
Learn a new language. Apart from being a linguistic exercise, it may bring you into contact with new people and ideas. You may feel less of a stranger when you visit a place and you know some of the language. Also, at some point you will realize that there are some phrases or concepts in other languages that have no direct translation in English! This can be a challenging and fun exercise for the mind. (Note, try to be patient and positive when studying a language as it may take time to reach the level you desire.)
Visit new places as much as you can. Try to visit other countries too. Visiting cities in your country or in a different one gives you an open mind and teaches you about the universe. You will be able to understand other cultures (how people live in a different place, how they behave with each other). You will also be able to understand that there is so much to see and do anywhere. You will be fascinated on how there are so many different people and cultures in the world. That will make you smart and interesting.
Be open-minded and willing to learn new things. Just because you're great at one thing doesn't mean you have to stick to it! Find ways to step out of your comfort zone. This is where the learning happens.
1.鍛鍊你的大腦
做一些像魔方這樣的智力遊戲。做這樣的智力遊戲可以讓你的大腦保持工作狀態，提高你的智力。你的大腦是一塊肌肉: 你必須鍛鍊它!
數獨是一個很好的智力遊戲，它能拓展你的思維。這些可以在書店買到，也經常印刷在報紙上，並且很容易在網上免費找到。
做一些藝術活動。素描、雕塑、油畫和其他藝術活動可以釋放你創造性的一面，擴展你解決問題的能力。一個有創造力的大腦可以跳出思維定勢，找到更高效的方法來完成工作。
學習數學。學習如何做心算或快速計算。數學所需的思考會讓你的大腦努力工作，並幫助你建立聯繫，幫助你更好更快地思考。
寫故事或詩歌。創造性寫作迫使你的大腦致力於創造情景、對話、人物和環境。這將使你成為一個更好的思考者，並幫助你處理信息。使用這樣的語言也會提高你的詞彙量和說話能力。寫作也是表達你自己和你的想法的一種極好的方式。
2.培養你的人際交往能力
簡單。談論別人無法理解的事情並不會讓你變得聰明。天才具有把複雜的東西轉化為簡單的東西的能力。練習向他人解釋抽象的概念。看看你的解釋有多簡單明了。
學會仔細傾聽別人對有爭議的事情，或他們知道而你不知道的事情的看法。你不必同意他們的觀點，但要記住每個人都有值得你去學習的地方。問問題可以讓你重新評估自己，或者指出他們的缺點。保持開放的心態。你越聰明，你就會向周圍的人問越多的問題。
善待他人。在面對挑戰時表現出善意是成熟、有品位和智慧的標誌。記住，你也有很多東西要向別人學習。善待他們會讓你了解他們的生活和經歷。誰知道你會學到什麼?
3.自我教導
以自我教育為目標。記住，教育不是你在學校裡為了文憑和學位而被迫做的事情; 而是對你周圍世界的一種理解。出於某種原因天生好奇的人一到學校就開始停止提問。然而，真正擁有聰明的頭腦的人總是對他們的世界提出質疑，並試圖弄明白其中的道理。這就是「天才」的秘密。
試著教自己。你甚至可以從你的生活經歷中學習，有時被稱為「非學校教育」。
提高你的詞彙量。每天使用字典中的一些定義，或者在線訂閱「每日詞彙」服務。你也可以參加《讀者文摘》的詞彙測試，或者買一本關於增加工作詞彙量的書。一次讀一個單詞。這樣堅持一年的時間，你會在智力上得到成長。
讀各種各樣的書。閱讀是一個很棒的愛好，可以幫助你學習各種各樣的新事物。你可能並不總是喜歡閱讀，但閱讀會打開你的思維，讓你有各種各樣的新想法和經歷。瀏覽任何你覺得有趣和有見解的書籍。許多人都建議每天讀書。
讓自己了解周圍的世界。培養對時事、有趣和鼓舞人心的名言、好書和電影、科學研究和有趣的發明等話題的興趣。像PBS這樣的教育電視節目是一種很好的學習方式。學會批判性地思考你周圍的世界，意識到事情的因果關係會讓你變得更聰明。
4.培養好的習慣
經常問問題。不斷地問問題和質疑我們周圍的一切使我們更聰明。不知道為什麼或怎麼做沒什麼錯! 每個人都有自己不知道的事情。但是養成一個健康的習慣，在你不知道的時候問問題，你會發現自己變得越來越聰明。
每周設定一次目標。在每次設定目標的過程中問問自己，上周我完成了多少目標? 為什麼我沒有完成我的一些目標，我能做些什麼來讓自己成功?
堅持學習。有很多信息來源。例如，書籍、紀錄片和網際網路。學校只是信息的一個來源。如果你成績全優，並不意味著你很聰明。保持開放的心態會讓你更聰明，不斷學習也會幫助你達到目標。
5.擴大你的視野
學習一門新的語言。除了語言學習，它還能讓你接觸到新的人和新的想法。當你參觀一個地方，你知道一些當地的語言，你會覺得自己不那麼像一個陌生人。而且，在某個時候，你會發現在其他語言中有一些短語或概念在英語中沒有直接翻譯! 對於大腦來說，這是一個富有挑戰性和樂趣的練習。(注意，學習一門語言時要有耐心和積極的態度，因為達到你想要的水平可能需要時間。)
儘可能多地參觀新的地方。試著去其他國家看看。探訪你的國家或其他國家的一些城市，會給你一個開放的思想，教會你關於宇宙的知識。你將能夠理解其他文化(人們如何生活在不同的地方，他們如何與他人相處)。你也將能夠理解，在任何地方都有很多可以看的東西和可以做的事情。你會對世界上有這麼多不同的人和文化而著迷。這會讓你變得聰明有趣。
思想開明，樂於學習新事物。僅僅因為你擅長一件事並不意味著你必須一直堅持做這一件事! 想辦法走出你的舒適區。那就是學習的地方。
Translated By Mike