Here are 10 Simple Ways to Stimulate your intellect:
- New Environments - You’re a product of your environment. You’re strong as your weakest link.
- Multiple Perspectives - Remaining open and curious to thoughts and opinions that directly challenge your belief systems.
- Variety - Acknowledging there are various types of intellect such as emotional intelligence vs pragmatic intellect.
- Metacognition - How do you know what you know and what makes you think you know?
- Reading - Choose literature with an expansive vocabulary.
- Problem-Solving - Applying the cognitive process through spacial awareness to make sense of visual data.
- Ideas-Based Conversations - Broaden conversations beyond your immediate proximity.
- Language - Language is a transmitter of culture which expands the opportunity to receive information.
- Critical Thinking - Aggregating historical patterns to create a new future narrative.
- Play - Knowing that knowing isn’t everything. Intuition, creativity, and dropping ego allow for freedom of learning.