How can you increase your IQ and intellect ?

Read stuff that actually confuses you instead of doom scrolling

read more books, do puzzles, learn new skills - basically just keep your brain active instead of doom scrolling all day

Read every chance you get, and do word and number puzzles.

According to “The Neuroscience of Intelligence” by Haier, (Stanford University), there is no known way to increase one’s native intelligence. Although a great many things have been presented in that regard, from playing Mozart to your infant to “head start” programs to all sorts of spurious “brain tune-up” machines and games…. None work. What you’ve got, you’ve got. That does not mean you can’t maximize what you have. Study critical thinking and logic. Increase your store of knowledge. Expose yourself to the great thinkers of history.

Read, and learn languages and music - these practices also delay neurological diseases like alzheimers and dementia onset i have heard

don't spend too much time on listnook if you want to keep the brain cells you do have.

Read. Find out your learning style. Never stop wanting to learn.

You can’t meaningfully increase fluid intelligence (your raw reasoning ability). It’s largely genetic and peaks in early adulthood, then gradually declines. Things like puzzles or “brain training” as people are mentioning in this thread, might make you better at those specific tasks, but they don’t raise your underlying cognitive capacity. As most things, IQ is highly heritable.

You cant iq and knowledge are different things

Isn't IQ innate? What you can improve is knowledge and life experience. Explore, be curious, ask questions.

​Most people here confuse knowledge with actual intelligence. You have to distinguish between fluid and crystalline intelligence. - ​Fluid intelligence (logic, pattern recognition, processing speed) is mostly genetic and hits a ceiling. You cant "train" it. - If you do puzzles all day, you dont get smarter, you just get better at puzzles. Thats just a practice effect, not a higher IQ. - ​Reading books only improves your crystalline intelligence (vocabulary and facts). It makes you more educated, but it doesnt upgrade your "hardware." ​The truth is: You can lose IQ through head trauma or drugs, but you cant really push your natural limit. IQ is a mix of many things like spatial reaching and memory. Its not a muscle you can just pump up. EDIT: since alot of People are confused I would like to add this: ​Yes, crystalline intelligence is factored into the final score because IQ tests are designed to measure current performance, not just raw potential. If you read a lot, your score goes up because you know more words and facts. But thats exactly what I said: you are just upgrading the "software." ​Your actual cognitive "hardware", how fast your brain processes new, abstract information (fluid reasoning) doesnt change just because you memorized a history book. If a test score goes up because of acquired knowledge, it doesnt mean you become "smarter" in terms of raw brain power; you just become more knowledgeable. ​A high score from reading books is still just a measure of what you learned, not an increase in your biological ceiling. Confusing the test result with the actual underlying ability is the mistake here.

Cultivate curiosity. Intellect isn't marked by rote fact memorization and repetition: computers can do that, but they don't *understand* - even algorithms that produce cross-referenced results are only following commands. Curiosity, and applying understanding to information learned is the start of critical thinking, which is a feedback loop of curiosity in some ways, paired with both empathy and suspicion, and both of those are gained through experience.

IQ is like your height, nothing you can do. Genetics.

Delete your listnook account

You can maximize what you have through exposure to complexity. Read more books, try to understand things just a little over your head. Ask questions and listen to the answers. And most importantly, learn to recognize and recover more quickly from your mistakes (your brain literally rewires itself when you discover a mistake and its solution). But you can't really overclock yourself.

Read. Play musical instruments – as many as you can get your hands on. Travel to cultures that are dramatically different than your own. Get a pet, and love it with all your heart. Communicate with it.

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Start actively seeking out long-form reading on topics where you strongly disagree with the author. Engaging with opposing arguments forces your brain to work hard instead of getting lazy on content you already agree with. Mentally wrestling with complex, conflicting viewpoints is like a heavy workout for your critical thinking skills.

There are a lot of confident answers here that clearly don't really understand IQ or what it tries to measure ( and the evidence base on IQ is very strong, despite the popular narratives against it ). You can't particularly increase your IQ. You might get slightly different scores between testing, but it's pretty stable overall, assuming you're past puberty. Your cognitive functioning/performance can vary - exercise helps, good nutrition and sleep, engaging your brain in learning, but your 'ceiling' for performance, your general intelligence, that's just not going to change. It's set by genetics and various developmental factors like childhood nutrition, air pollution exposure, etc.

Download more RAM. 

You kinda can't, but you can enforce discipline to use what you've got to absorb a lot of information. Read, think a lot about subjects, try to see from multiple sides of an argument. Idk, I'm dumb af.

Learn. Understand how you could potentially use information from one random part of life and apply it to another.

Challenge your brain regularly read widely, solve problems, and learn new skills. Also prioritize sleep, exercise, and reflection; a healthy mind processes information better.

You cannot increase your max IQ.

To quote a professor from my past. You're already as intelligent as you're going to be. I'm trying to make you more educated. Semantics aside, reading. Read every day and you will see noticeable changes (:

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Read, work out, get good sleep, eat a healthy diet.

Eating gifted children. 

Quit watching Fox fake news.

There are three basic things that you can do to increase your base level of intelligence. 1) Take care of the biological support system for your brain. Get enough sleep. Eat a balanced diet. Get regular exercise that includes cardio and resistance training. 2) Read books that challenge you, and then synthesize that information by writing about what you read. Don't just summarize, write about what you thought about it, what implications you drew, how it made you feel. Any book in which you find depth and meaning is good but if you're looking for suggestions there is a category of books that are known for being particularly good at this called The Classics. This includes books like To Kill a Mocking Bird, Crime and Punishment, and Moby D***. 3) Train your brain to think methodically and logically by studying math. Do a brief refresher course to cover what you already know and then go from there. If you got up to algebra in high school/college then start studying pre-calc and calculus. If you took calculus look into linear algebra, etc.

It appears difficult to increase IQ. To increase intellect expose yourself to all forms of art, try to understand history, advanced mathematical and physical concepts, popular culture/current trends including gaming (!) and a bit of philosophy. It is not that hard with an average IQ.

Read more book, travel and experience the life.

You can't there's a max you can reach then you're done it's mostly genetics

Never be the smartest person in the room.

Arguably - definitely not practically - you cannot change your IQ positively. That is the point of IQ. This has been illustrated to not be entirely true, but the question if the way this is achieved is relevant for what IQ is used for is still unanswered. IQ doesn't as much illustrate your general intellect as it gauges your ability to absorb and process information in several structured ways. Anyone can learn how to build a rocket if they apply themselves. But one person does so in a week and another needs 20 years. That's sort of what IQ measures. Your intellect can be trained through the methods you probably already know. Reading, learning, puzzles, and a whole host of other activities that actively push your cognitive processes into the 'this is frustrating and uncomfortable' territory.

Listen to Joe Rogan and take his brain pills

First step is leaving this sub, as it's shockingly braindead even for listnook standards

Practicing IQ test increase your iq

Stop listening to people who watch Fox.

Ask yourself: what gives u dopamine? (The feeling once you accomplish something) that would probably help you figure out what you would enjoy doing. - hitting a new PR at the gym? - solving a puzzle? - beating someone at a game? - getting a 100 on a test? Myself i don’t enjoy reading books but now i could read French after studying for 3 hours a day everyday for a year. So it’s not the “reading” that isn’t my thing, but i found a way to make reading interesting

Reading, its that simple, it expands your vocabulary and your horizons. Many years ago when i was dating a nurse one of her colleagues commented 'your boyfriend is the smartest person i ever met, what university did he go to?' And she replied ' he never went to college let alone university. and he left school with no qualifications, he just reads a lot'

Study

yes, if you have enough experience points.

Get off listnook.

Start learning chess, a new language and never stop reading!

Have enough runes and visit a site of grace.

Be around more intelligent people- their iq goes down but yours goes up

Everyone is telling you to read more stuff but that it is not the key, you have to memorize the things you read, the difference between a smart reader and a "dumb" reader is that the smart one has most of the information he knows at the ready. I am aware of the fact that you can't memorize everything but the least you can do is die trying

You can't. The smartest thing you can do is meet yourself where you are and understand your capabilities and limitations.

Get more sleep, eat whole foods, exercise or walk, and read.

Stop worrying about your IQ.

stop doomscrolling on listnook for starters... actually reading books instead of just titles helps too

Watch AI slop every day

You can’t increase your intelligence. You can learn stuff and improve by practicing. You can make the most of your intelligence by sleeping well, eating well and taking care of your body.

By not being on Listnook

read lots of books especially on things you don’t think ur interested in

As others have noted...read. Anything and everything you can. Don't stick to any one subject or set of subjects - keep things broad, and when you're reading, if you see something that intrigues you (ie - a new subject or something you have questions about) - note it, and find reading material for it, too. ...and make sure it's a mix of fiction and non-fiction. My wife and I - we read everything, and own a large personal library of books, magazines, and other material. So much so, we have piles of books just...everywhere. We ran out of shelving space! Plus tons of audiobooks, and ebooks... But also - be sure to apply what you read! Don't just read, and assume you know it - do what you can to apply that knowledge in your everyday life, as much as possible. Furthermore, exercise your mind to try to apply knowledge in one domain to solve problems in other domains which may seem completely unrelated or orthogonal to each other. This can also extend to the physical world...for instance, one of my hobbies is DIY robotics - so every time I am out and about (especially in thrift stores or hardware stores) - I look at stuff as "how can I use this widget or material for robotics?" Or I try to use what I know to solve various problems when I may not have everything needed...at first (especially when I'm repairing or doing something of such a nature - maybe I don't have the right tool - but what do I have that I can use to solve the problem? Look around...look around...think...and you might come up with a wacky but workable solution). Finally...always question your own knowledge: Understand what you know...and what you don't know...and don't be afraid to challenge your assumptions. You may find that what you thought you knew is actually...wrong! Or maybe it just needs some tweaking. Or maybe you might uncover a hidden bias or logical fallacy you had. Work to know how you think...your epistemological functioning. Oh...also...go outside for a walk...or some other similar "exercise"...an evening "constitutional" as it was once called. Use that time for relaxing, but also for contemplation, thinking about problems, coming up with solutions, integrating your knowledge, etc. Do all of this (and other things people have mentioned) on the regular, and over time...well, you'll increase what you seek to increase, but ultimately...and unfortunately...you'll also discover that you really don't know a lot of things...so don't ever be afraid to say to someone when they ask you a question you don't have the answer to with: "I don't know...but I'll find out!"

IQ you're pretty much stuck with. You can read and study and mature a bit, learn how to perform better at exams, but your IQ will pretty much stay where it is. Now EQ, your Emotional Quotient, can change drastically with studying, self reflection and reading. Its proven that people with an average IQ and a very high EQ will out perform and generally be more successful than people with a high IQ and a low EQ.

You can't

Name ten books

Sudoku

Reading and learning new words. Cognitivie tests indicate that people who know more words have higher intelligence. A word represents a concept and the more concepts a person understands, the broader the knowledge base.

Listening podcasts while taking a nap or learning a new language

Think, don’t just consume question everything you learn.

A good mix of passive and active learning.

Stop drinking alcohol. I have a tested IQ of 147.

get off listnook

steroids

Read.

Follow love island to improve your vocabulary (the amount of words you know), watch game of thrones to improve strategic social skills and make sure to use tiktok to stay up to date with the latest news.

Sleep, exercise and nutrition are genuinely underrated here. your brain literally consolidates learning during deep sleep, physical exercise grows new neural connections, and what you eat directly affects cognitive function. The boring basics actually work.

Read real books regularly . Learn maths, it is logic 

IQ is just potential energy. most people die with a full tank because they never found the ignition

Chess, learning languages

Find out your learning style. A lot of people are smarter than they think, but never learned how to learn properly or have self esteem issues

Also study EQ it actually might serve you better than IQ

Find people smarter than you, and discuss ideas with them.

Watch tiktoks and brainrot, na legit walk to a park or something a healthy body helps to get a healthy mind once you are happy with yourself learning something would be good, math helps learning logic a lot etc.

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Generally speaking IQ tests are geared around problem solving and critical thinking with some elements of mathematics and pattern recognition. Simply exercise those elements and your IQ will generally go up. Some examples could be learning to fast read, playing strategy games, learning some element of design (ie. Systems design, architectural design, etc.), picking up some advanced math classes, and just playing with puzzles. IQ scores aren't a perfect measure of applied intelligence as a warning though; at the end of the day it's just scoring how quickly you can reason and create a solution. A fair amount of problems in the world require deeper reasoning, so expanding your capability to mentally model a problem and consider more elements is often more critical. It often helps to study in a given field if you're looking to become more intelligent in said field as well; your IQ generally goes up over time as you deepen your knowledge on STEM subjects as there is overlap in the concepts.

Surround yourself with smart and successful people. You don't have to be physically with them. Consume their art, writing, music, anything.

Read

What sort of things are you interested in? Also, how do you feel you best learn and retain new Information? From reading it, watching other people show you, diagrams etc?

Here’s a great way to start making progress if you’re feeling motivated. Find something that you’re interested in on YouTube and watch a video. Try to find an truly educational video. You know, boring. Pay attention, and as you are learning the topic you’ll probably find topics or people that you want to know more about. Write them down as you’re watching. Use that list to continue learning on that subject. Remember that it’s a journey. You’ll walk, you’ll get tired, you’ll walk some more. Eventually you’ll get in shape and the walk will become easy and feel natural.

Personally, learning a new language has been very helpful for me on a few levels. But I really felt the benefits when I enrolled in a class (this has been the key to feeling the brainpower increase) for the language. My hypothesis is that the pressure of the class demands that you learn and memorize foreign words and concepts (to apply them on the demand of the instructor, and not look clueless in front of the class), so your brain becomes generally more receptive to learning and memorization, even when outside the context of that language learning process. In order for that effect to take place, it required a total dedication to learning it, so it’s not a quick process, but I think it works over 6+ months.

You can increase your knowledge: for example IQ is a very controversial metric when it comes to intelligence.

Learn to debate. Sounds boring but it allows you to improve critical thinking, argumentation. Try tounderstand what you dont know. Question your own believes and standpoints (argumentation helps with that). Admit if you do not know something, dont act like you know it all. Understand consequences, and try to avoid blaming others for a bad outcome. Think what YOU could have done better, as unfair as things might be. This doesnt necessarily boosts your IQ or anything, but it is essential for critical thinking and argumentation.

Be born with a higher IQ

Stay away from tik tok

Just learn stuff, be curious, problem solve. Also, try to spend time to figure out how your brain works, not everyone learns or thinks about things the same way so you have to figure yourself out a bit.

Use it. And Exercise. I'm 72. Since I ended most of my actual career (at 45), I've Learned everything about the Internet (1995) - started web site...informational, learned relational db, php. Millions of visitors.... Did Tech Journalism - centered around fancy stuff like Camera Drones. My Kindle has 1350 Books, mostly a history and bios. Learned to Sail - Pickleball too! (already played tennis). Just bought a 3D printer -know zero about them. Learned a LOT in 3 weeks, already making people happy with gifts. Etc. - I saw an article recently where almost 50% of elders actually got tougher and smarter at my age and older.....but if you watch streaming series all day or play video games it's not gonna happen.

Learn an instrument. It’s one of the rare activities that simultaneously uses all areas of the brain.

You can't significantly increase your own IQ with exercises, BUT you do can increase your Emotional Intelligence and at the end of the day that carries a lot more weight on a successful/happy life.

Education and research we never stop learning

Ask questions...do not pretend to know everything about everything.

Staying off listnook is a good start

Yes, read. And read books. Not just articles or one pagers. There is no better way to become sharper, more interesting, more interested, intellectually richer, than reading books.