6 Hobbies That Will Make You Smarter

[Anonymous]

1. Read lots of books

Especially reading different kinds of books will improve your brain.

2. Do meditation

It will lessen your stress levels and make you focus better.

3. Solve puzzles

It's just like doing sport and having a fit body, but this time you have a fit brain.

4. Do sports

It will improve your circulating and respiratory system. And this will effect your brain too.

5. Learn a new language

It's both good for your brain and mental health.

6. Keep a diary

It will improve your creativity, imagination, and grammar.

[Paris13]

Maybe More Motivating my Mind which is pretty Sharp, on Top of being a Wise Owl:
Being on Gag Makes Me Motivated, Energetic, more Wise, and I myself can learn from others with even a Discussion or in a Question we Reply to.

Read, Read, Read and Read.. Avid Reader in Books that I will Read of Anything, much like "Hump Dar."lol, that I need to Research or even Read as a Pass time.

ONLINE Research on Politics and Any other Subject that is of my Interest. I love Learning all Sorts of Specialties by Online Surfing.

Traveling and Learning about Other people and their own Customs and
Religion. I also know a little Arabic, French and Spanish. I even have Lived out in Egypt for some time. I experienced and saw a lot.

My Writing ability with Poetry, Plays and other such things, even on Here, dear, I enjoy this very much, which Sharpens my own Skills. I also participated in Writing Work shops, Participated in Speech Tournament sin school, where I have won awards, for even my Poetry and Writing Works, Out on on my Own when I had graduated High School.

Investigation ID True Murder Stories that I can learn how to Solve these Intriguing Mysteries, while at the Same time, Learn about Forensics and so Forth, Autopsies, which I enjoy as Part of a Scientific Interest I possess.

My Nursing Experience, with doing a job that I have done for awhile. I work in Different Group Homes, Assisting the Elderly, the Mentally Challenged, Teens and other People with Special Interests.
Good luck and Great question, but "7" is my Magical Number, nothing with "6."xx

[Paris13]

Beautifully Done, hun. xx

[Paris13]

lol!! Could not think of anything else. xx

[Unit1]

7. Online PC Gaming

Improves your English if you are not an English speaker, may interest you in programming, you learn how to multitask effectively and when you learn the logic of PC games by playing and winning/losing, you improve your strategical thinking.

[Unit1]

PC Master Race!

Am I Right, @DooMGuy , @JudgmentDay , @WoOolfy and @Library? :P ^^

[DooMguy]

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That's right, and don't forget about all of the problem solving skills, and all of the organisational skills you need. There's a longer list but when you're part of the master race you usually don't even think about it. It just comes naturally

[Unit1]

@DooMguy Wrong GIF m8.

But yeah, that's true.

[JudgmentDay]

It's possible. But I haven't played games online for a long time, over 10 years. The only exceptions are playing chess online, but even then I rarely have time for it these days.

[Library]

I love online PC gaming.

[DooMguy]

It's the right gif M9 I use this one in the comments and the other one for answers

PC stronk, remove peasant

[Unit1]

@DooMguy Oh, so you're doing it that way. Okay then.

Filthy console peasants are filthy and blinded by their own filth with their 30 frames-per-seconds and their 720p :P

[DooMguy]

yep, it's my new thing as well as the 5th K. R. U

"but. . . but the human eye can't see more then 30 fps"

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^ that's what they would say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQ9K5wUizQ

[Unit1]

@DooMguy Keep in mind, that there are also PC peasants, who believe, that the human eye cannot see more than 60 frames per seconds. Luckily I have a monitor, which displays 120 frames per seconds as it is a 120 hertz capable monitor :)

[AhGojira]

Books generally have a lot of filler and are behind the times. There are much more efficient ways to learn more in the same time it takes to read an average book. Most of the important knowledge is stored in English. Exercise is good for the brain. Personal diaries are pointless, but a laboratory notebook can help you to retrace your steps and discover new knowledge during experimentation or prototyping. Relaxation and taking time to think when you are not working is good for innovation, but you don't need to "meditate"... Puzzles can be fun, but generally once they are considered puzzles they have already been solved.

[zagor]

How are books "behind the times", unless you're reading books on technology? It's not like philosophy or storytelling has suddenly made enormous strides.

[AhGojira]

@zagor Anything in science or technology are generally way behind the times. It can be 5-10 years many times at publication... You can read the same scholarly journals they read with a library car now over the internet. Or you can wait 5 years for them to read them, add a bunch of filler to bloat it into a chapter for their book, go through the editing process, print, an then market their book. The same could be said for many other domains dealing with everything from ecconomics to law review to politics. I'd imagine even trends in art, fashion, etc. would be way behind in books...

[AhGojira]

*economics

[archiz]

what do you work?

[AhGojira]

@archiz biomedical informatics...

[archiz]

oki dokie

[Phoenix98]

Books are very much up with the times the only time their contents because irreverent is when the content itself is beyond the times.

The vast majority of things you'll read in books are perfectly fine, like philosophy, strategy, art, poetry and history. Only time that would really change is when your dealing with stuff like technology which makes strides and advances quite often.

[AhGojira]

@Phoenix98 Repeating it doesn't make it true... There is a reason why people read academic journals within their domain from history to biology to economics to law rather than reading the latest textbook...

[Phoenix98]

Except it is true lol, nothing anyone says you and I included will change that.

[Phoenix98]

FYI no one I know reads academic journals, just books.

[AhGojira]

@Phoenix98 It's not true... Maybe you should step outside your comfort zone and read what is published monthly in academic journals...

[AhGojira]

I guess you only know dumb people... That's cool.

[zagor]

LOL, sorry, economic theory doesn't become obsolete because someone comes up with a newer one. Yes, science tends to advance, though SOMETIMES it turns out the newer research is flawed and something older was right all along. You mention trends in art and fashion, well that often tends to be cyclical, not linear. A good book can be thought-provoking whether it is a new bestseller or a translation from ancient Greek.

But I guess you only know shallow trend-followers. That's cool.

[AhGojira]

@zagor Yeah people who consider new evidence are so shallow. How dare they change their minds when the facts change.

[archiz]

yea but usually it s always a follow through.
you gotta know the base before you go forward and innovate.

[AhGojira]

@archiz Sure, there is root knowledge in subjects like mathematics where you need to learn the foundation before you can progress to new topics, but if you were to apply old inefficient algorithms on today's projects you'd be writing outdated software filled flawed logic that would wast time, resources, and potentially have larger margins of error. If you were arguing a case in the Supreme Court you need to know the foundations of law and legal etiquette within a court room, but if a recent ruling has passed then your position may be flawed and you can lose your clients case. There are events in recorded history that we assume to be true, but if archaeological evidence is uncovered that argues otherwise then reporting the old version of history would just be a lie. Trends in art, fashion, and architecture are not as cyclical as you may think. While designers draw inspiration from old style ideas, they often utilize new materials that have arisen with technological advancement...

[AhGojira]

The same sorts of situations arise in most domains of knowledge.

[archiz]

but there you go, you actually said it.
it s always and back and forth.
you can t think in only one mindset.

[AhGojira]

@archiz My statement was I quote "Books generally have a lot of filler and are behind the times". You can try and twist that and turn that all you want but the reality is it means what it means. There is a lot of long winded phrasing of concepts in books that are explained much more quickly in other media formats. They are behind the times, meaning they are not on the cutting edge or bleeding edge of a topic and often do not give you the information you need to make the best informed decisions at the time you need to do so. The can give you a lower level understanding of a topic, but so can a quick web tutorial. You can read 50 pages or you can cut to the chase in less than a page and get the same knowledge on old foundation topics and you won't find the most relevant information in books. You always have to do additional research to make good decisions.

[archiz]

eghh fine we ll agree to disagree
I am not twisting anthng just the last comment you said sort off backed up my idea.
but whateves, you re a stubborn fella aren t ya

[AhGojira]

@archiz I made a point that I know justified and I have three people that seem to have never done higher level research that "intelligent people" have to do regularly bickering at me trying to tell me my position is incorrect. So of of course weak arguments aren't going to sway me.

[archiz]

ok...

[zagor]

You seem to be unaware of the many people who do original cutting edge research - and read books.

[AhGojira]

@zagor You can't do cutting edge research and publish without reading academic journals to at least ensure your have a novel idea. It's part of the process in all organizations. You have to read what has been published as well as do a patent search many times.

[zagor]

OK, maybe while still working on a Ph. D you don't have time for much else, but once that is accomplished a lot of people still do cutting-edge research while retaining balance in life.

[AhGojira]

@zagor Dude you're just an idiot. Organizations have committees of people that go through endless amounts of information to insure that their research is original and that someone else hasn't already had the same idea and published it because it takes a lot of money, resources, and man hours to investigate these ideas. Usually the guy with the idea is a big part of that process but it's such a big deal he has a bunch of other people that also assist. Organizations even employee the services of patent prosecution attorneys to search vast amounts of information to insure the ideas are original and that they will not face lawsuits if they claim it as their own idea. Fucking go learn something and stop being so useless...

[zagor]

Yeah, scoring in the 99 percentile of the GRE makes me an idiot. Working for the top data analytics company in the world makes me an idiot. This from someone who doesn't know the difference between "employ" and "employee".

[AhGojira]

@zagor Yes, you are an idiot. You can make whatever claims you want here, but the reality is people who do research do what I said. The fact that you argue so much against the facts shows you know nothing. You could be a bottom level data analyst running SQL reports and sending them up the chain to people who are much smarter than you, but the smart people at your organization (that is if you even are in one to begin with), the ones that are actually innovating new algorithms and telling you what to do are reading within their domain both to keep current and to check to ensure that their ideas are not infringing on other people's ideas. You may implement other people's ideas in software and be a general data slave, but that doesn't mean you're doing research or innovating. You don't seem to understand the difference between people that make scientific discoveries and innovate new ideas in relation to engineering practices of commercializing an idea and working within licensing

[AhGojira]

restraints...

[zagor]

Like I said, a shallow trend-chaser. I suppose you think FB was some great innovation. You sound like a flunky lab rat copying down data for your superiors.

[AhGojira]

@zagor Sure bud... You're bragging point is that you did well on a test with read comprehension and algebra... That's what you through at me when your insecurity arose. So who you are is obvious and that's obviously no one.

[zagor]

Really, how did you do on that test? Your own reading comprehension seems to be lacking.

And no, I don't do SQL for schemes someone else developed. The newest member of our team has a Ph. D in Applied Mathematics - and he isn't up to speed on what I am working on yet.

I've also been to 30+ countries, backpacked around Europe, been published in a national magazine, and a lot of other things totally unrelated to what I do at work. Have fun in your dank dark lab.

[AhGojira]

@zagor Whatever keep making bullshit to try and impress me... No one with any knowledge would brag about a standardized test result and then make claims that people that innovate don't check current research and patents...

[AhGojira]

Now your new bullshit claim to credibility is that you've been published once, when most people that get a Ph. D are published around 10 times by the time they do their dissertation and in a field such as computer science usualy have 50 or so papers under their belt in the first 3 years. Your claims don't add up in academia or in industry.

[zagor]

I never said I had a Ph. D; I stopped after my M. A. As I said, I am doing the same work for similar pay as the "doctors" while saving a few years of stress and low pay (a couple of my friends, with Ph. D's in Math and Physics from top 10 U's are doing essentially the same work I am now). And my degree is in Mathematics.

I didn't make up anything here - I don't need to. The reason I quoted a standardized test result is that it is often used as a base indication of logical reasoning ability. And frankly I don't care about impressing you.

Anyway, this thread is getting tiresome, so let me conclude by stating a point that was somewhat obscured by lack of sleep in my last post: I work on research-level development yet still keep time to read unrelated books, climb mountains, and learn things that have nothing to do with what pays me. I hope you are satisfied with what you are doing, and that it pays off for you in the long run, though your posts haven't exactly exemplified

[zagor]

creativity and unique intelligence. But regardless, I think this thread has gone beyond what is interesting or useful, so I am done with this.

[AhGojira]

@zagor We can obviously all look back at what you said and it's not what you just said. Why would you blatantly lie when the record is a few hundred pixels up the page.

[zagor]

Please refresh my memory; what did I lie about?

[strateguy632]

solving puzzles is plausible to increase brain practice but reading? most of the books are either entertainment or from my experieence too poor quality to be worthy of publishing or agendas. very little remains worth reading.
even meditation is for concentration and calmness not increasing knowledge nor potential

[SCARRED]

hi i'm Darryl

that has ham radio and radio vommunications as a hobby

and my passion so is family stuff time alone too.

and something that was my moms passion

she was involived with the blind and visally impaired for 60 years

and mine and our family's too.

And what would be cool ham radio events for singles like Me.

the family time and ham radio stuff is worth retiring for too

[archiz]

you forgot gagging
"cough cough" :P
anw you have also learning an instrument
chess play
travelling and exchange programs can help you out
having a job and balancing it with your studies and activities.

[wankiam]

all of which are higher on the list than keeping a diary or meditating ;)

[Bvroon]

Building models is also a good one as it teaches you to follow directions, plan, think creatively and problem solve. ;-)

[QooLipBite]

The fact that playing 'Chess' is not part of this list should be considered a sin.

[VomitV]

Meditation is useless heathen bullshit, and where is playing an instrument? It seems like you just arbitrarily decided which hobbies are beneficial.

[Phoenix98]

Yes and no your right about some, wrong about others but overall right.

[Zorax]

1, 2 and 5 are my favorite hobbies in this exquisite Take :D

[Anonymous]

Good suggestions, I already do most of them. I love that cat gif by the way :D

[SovereignessofVamps]

THE CAT THE CAT THE CAT <3 <3 <3 srsly

[SovereignessofVamps]

*My* angel cat is my role model, dead srs.

[Library]

I have all these hobbies. This means I'm so smart.

[Abe90]

Umm, so smart

[YaBaba]

I am trying the language one

[This_is_my_username]

Love me some puzzle time

[Saoirse_Nua]

Very good advice for keeping the mind sharp

[RainbowFanGirl]

I came for the cat gif 😺

[handsomelad70]

That cat is smarter than Trump or Biden.

[louiseisaturtle]

learning a new skill works too

[Whaaaaa]

I actually never knew about the diary thing

[TheFlak38]

Number 2 is so out of place here :D