How to become a genius (if you are not born one)

We all dream of being a genius, because intelligence can greatly boost your ability to achieve great things. Some believe that geniuses are born, and that we cannot become geniuses through our efforts. However, I believe that geniuses are made, and that the idea of a genius is not simply intellectual superiority.

Now, I don't usually post contents that other people have written, but I will make an exception for the great article on how to be a genius by Jim Westergren.

Here it is:

1. Consider yourself being a genius and act like one in every moment of your life and you will very soon feel that you are one.

2. Work out your time in such a way that every hour is properly utilized and put aside as much time as possible on becoming better.

3. Established a good skill on recognizing which data are valuable and vital.

4. Learn something new and valuable each day.

5. In anything you read or observe make sure you understand it.

6. Clear up the words you don’t understand and ask or look up to understand observations which were not understood.

7. Never pass by something you don’t understand.

8. Carefully choose a profession in which you earn your money for living and at the same time enables you to enhance your skill and abilities.

9. Read a lot and carefully select which literature to read in which to gain the most valuable and vital data.

10. Evaluate, look and make conclusions on anything you read and observe.

11. Expect much more of yourself than what is expected from others.

12. Help people around you to the best of your ability and establish friends who can support you if needed.

13. Be very self-confident and certain but on the same time be open to listen, look and reevaluate to make new conclusions.

14. Know that no matter how good or skilled you are you can always become better and never cease to become more skillful in anything you do.

15. The true genius knows that it is not enough for himself having reached sky high levels – he has to take the rest of mankind with him up and has dedicated his life in making it happen.

I strongly agree with these points, and most of them I have been following myself. If you stand by these principles I can guarantee that you will enjoy a new level of wisdom and control.

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