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These 15 skills compounded every day will make you smarter. They’ll avail you to cultivate a knowledgeable persuasion.
Here are those:
Emotional Intelligence
The ability to regulate your own emotions & understand other people’s is important in all areas of life, especially in your relationships.
It helps you to diffuse conflicts more easily and assess your strengths & weaknesses in both yourself & others.
Gaming Skills
Gaming improves your socialization skills, especially when teamwork is required. You play a game better than the next time than you did the last.
So, when figuring out your tactics in your game, remember that you’re also getting smarter.
Numeracy Skills
Arithmetic, formulas, and mathematics help you in critical thinking and problem solving boosting your overall intellect. And when you’re standing in line trying to calculate the sale price of something, you won’t be cheated.
So, make sure you task yourself with numbers on a regular basis.
Writing Skills
Think of writing this way:
You have a lot of emotions going on in your mind that you just don’t know how to let out. So, writing them down will prove to be beneficial.
Writing helps you to untangle your messy mind — creating an opening for clearer thoughts.
Athletic Skills
Studies have shown that athletic activities are linked to higher IQ scores.
Engaging in athletic activities helps you to process information and make decisions even faster.
Exercising also releases dopamine and makes you concentrate better.
Digital Skills
We get smarter by looking at things online through our laptops and mobile phones.
The internet is simply a gold mine of information.
So, take up your phone & laptop, learn a few things from them, educate yourself and become smarter along the way.
Meditation Skills
Dancing Skills
Time Management Skills
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There are innovations happening right now (in this list) that are ripped straight from the pages of science fiction.
Here’re 15 technologies that will change the future of the human race:
Realistic Holographs
Technologies like Holobricks seek to reduce how much data is used by dividing whole holograms into smaller pieces. And this might probably someday result in Holograms being used in regularly occurring consumer entertainment.
Autonomous Cars, Super-Fast Trains, & Air Taxis
Undoubtedly, neither pedals nor a steering wheel will be included in the level 5 driving vehicle with all driving handled by the AI.
With a potential speed of 760 miles/hour, the hyperloop could theoretically transport people from one city to another in less than 45 minutes.
Bionics
People with other issues, like visual impairments may regain their sight.
Israeli doctors operated on a 78-year-old man who was blind in both eyes in January 2021 and successfully inserted the first artificial cornea into his eye.
Augmented & Virtual Reality — Metaverse
Remote work and Zoom meetings are a thing right now, but very soon, there’ll be virtual offices and meetings with just your augmented reality goggles.
This technology also has the potential to completely transform the shopping experience — customers would be able to attend concerts or try on clothes in their favorite boutique before making an order.
Serverless Computing
With this technical advancement, businesses won’t have to worry about infrastructure or bandwidth reservations, which means simplicity of use & cost savings are guaranteed.
The cost of cloud provider services is bound to drop significantly and be cost-effective for both large companies and smaller startups.
Graphene
It’s the strongest compound ever found between 100–300x stronger than steel.
It is also:
The lightest material weighing around 0.787 milligrams,
The best conductor of heat at room temperature, and
The greatest conductor of electricity.
Nuclear Fusion Energy
Wearable Devices
Direct Air Capture (DAC)
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“Can you give me some money to buy food?”
“No, there’s food at the house.”
— Every mom’s words…
Don't worry, here’re 15 easiest ways to make money in your teens & twenties
Buying & Selling
Ever heard of “buy low, sell high”?
A great example is buying old & interesting items from antique stores and posting them up on Craigslist & eBay.
Pro tip: Buying several items from the same store could earn you discounts which results in even more profit.
Become a Virtual Assistant
A Virtual Assistant requires simple skills that most teens are already familiar with, like:
Simply register a profile on Fiverr where you’ll find potential employers.
A Job at Amusement Park
Most amusement parks around the world prefer hiring teenagers.
Why? Because they believe you’ll be better at handling their target market who're also teenagers like you.
Pro tip: It gets you few perks like a lifetime membership card or a season pass.
Sell Crafty Items on Etsy
13-year-olds are making money on Esty.
Are you good with your hands?
Can you make digital art?
Can you carve a wooden figure?
With Esty, you can find individuals willing to pay for your craft no matter how imperfect you might think it is.
Promote Products on TikTok
You can become popular for doing anything, like:
Surprisingly, small brands are now paying for even 1k followers.
It's simple: More followers, more money!
Proofread and Edit Documents
You can help college students, bloggers, and even business owners edit their documents. You could charge $3 to $5 for a single-page document.
Just register yourself on Upwork or Fiverr, and if you do a good job, they can even re-hire you again.
Run Errands
Wag!
Become a Live Streamer
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once quoted:
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
Here’re 15 habits that you can adapt to give your IQ a major boost:
Do Something New — Even if You Think it Won’t Work
“Practice makes perfect!”
It’s impossible to learn a new equation if you don’t attempt questions on it — and so is learning to play the guitar if you don’t try those chords yourself.
Sometimes outstanding and even spectacular successes are the results of something that frightened us tremendously.
Take Short Breaks at Work
You will assimilate better when you take breaks after a few hours of reading.
In this free time, you can enjoy:
Read Across Genres
We have instant access to almost all the written books created by humans.
Smartphones,
e-Readers, and of course
The internet.
The best options are books.
Even if it just involves reading a portion of a chapter each day, your intellect will grow over time — just give yourself a mental time-out!
Be Actively Observant
Examine normal everyday interactions that take place in your environment on a global, interpersonal, & societal level.
Actively pay attention to details and you’ll be surprised by what you discover about your surroundings.
An unpopular, but useful habit!
Keeping a Diary
Take a few minutes each evening to write down your thoughts & events — and you’ll have the opportunity to analyze the ideas that come to you.
Keeping a diary is a language practice activity, learning new terms, & expanding your vocabulary that will raise your IQ.
Exercise Frequently
Try as much as possible to make time for at least one form of exercise.
Sign up for your local gym.
Get some running shoes for a few mile runs.
Simply practice yoga or other home workouts.
Anything will work — just remember to move your body more!
Hang Out With Smart People
Apply and Share New Knowledge
Be Selective of What You Put Your Effort Into
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Nothing ruins a perfectly good day faster than someone who is dripping with negativity and toxicity!
But how can you spot such snakes which are surrounded by you and you don’t even realize it?
Here're
Snakes push you toward temptation
They say things like — “This will be the last time, or just try one glass!”
These are people that offer you junk food when you’re trying to lose weight.
These are the people who push you to talk to someone else, although you’ve got someone waiting for you back home.
Snakes drain and exhaust you
If spending time with someone feels like work, you better be getting paid for doing it.
There are some people around you where after you spend some time with them, you feel tired and depleted of energy.
These snakes are energy vampires!
Snakes only show up when you cut the cake
They want some of your celebratory cake.
But they’re not interested in bringing any of the ingredients to help, or putting in any effort required in baking the cake.
Fake poverty, fake misery — and watch them run away!
Snakes play down your achievements
Be careful who doesn’t clap when you win!
When they look at your achievements, they say — “You got lucky if only I was lucky!”
That’s how the have-nots try to justify it.
Snakes think they deserve more good things than you
Simply put, they want what you have!
So, why is the world unfair to them?
They think that — everything good in your life is not the result of your effort, instead, it was just simply given to you.
They’re not jealous, they’re envious!
Snakes talk about others behind their backs
Here’s a rule to remember:
“If they gossip about others with you, they gossip about you with others!”
These snakes usually pit friends against friends to serve their own purpose. Either distance yourself from these kinds of snakes or allow them to choke on their own venom.
Snakes are always digging for personal info
Snakes have expectations of you
It’s only promises and excuses
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A fascinating recent study found that compared with the less gifted, smart people tend to spend more time alone.
“Smart people are clever, but clever doesn’t mean smart!”
Here 10 problems that highly intelligent people have in common:
You lose interest in something after you figure it out
The thing is:
No matter what you do in life, some things will be repetitive & boring, and there’s simply no other way around it.
And this can even happen in your relationships too.
How to battle your ego
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity!
Your ego doesn’t let you grow, apologize, or see other perspectives.
You’re essentially battling yourself and you need to be comfortable losing in order to win.
You’re afraid to look stupid
If you’re smart, you’re aware of the possibility of being stupid — and boyyy that scares you!
That can leave you overthinking the simple things and questioning yourself constantly.
And this can be pretty exhausting, to be honest!
When to be ignorant
You need to decide when to be ignorant.
A real-life example:
Seth Godin who decided he doesn’t need to know what people think of his books. He actually stopped reading reviews and felt a lot better that way.
If there’s something that much important to you, the information will eventually come to you.
Dealing with instant gratification
You have to really be careful when navigating the instant gratification game.
They’ll gladly jump from:
Story to story
Scroll after scroll
A little can give you some motivation, but a little more, & your morning is ruined.
You sometimes have trouble relating to others
How to challenge yourself creatively
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When the world’s ultra-wealthy look for tax havens to shield income and wealth from their domestic governments — where do they turn?
Yes, “tax havens”, and here are 15 of those:
Switzerland
You don’t just become the grandfather of all tax havens out of nowhere, do you? You do that by being a tax haven since your grandfather’s time!
One of the biggest reasons it’s been such a successful tax haven is that it has extremely low (or sometimes even zero percent) taxes on companies and individual people.
Canada
One of the biggest ways Canada ends up being a tax haven is through its non-double taxation treaty with Barbados.
Now you’d think —
“Okay, so they’re being taxed in Barbados so it’s not fair to pay tax twice, right?”
Well, in theory “yes”, but the companies with their accounts in Barbados only pay around 1–2.5% in taxes.
So, they pretty much have all their money intact anyway.
Malta
“Europe’s Pirate Base for Tax!”
A regular domestic business pays around 35% in taxes, while a foreign company pays under 5%.
And if that doesn’t sound like the perfect place to put your offshore account, we don’t really know what does.
Taiwan
“The Switzerland of Asia!”
The government doesn’t tax foreigners at all + it’s not a signatory to the CRS (Common Reporting Standard).
So, it doesn’t have to report the financial happenings that go on through the country secretive by default.
Singapore
“The grandfather of tax havens!”
Now, from the outset that doesn’t seem true, while most countries have zero percent income tax, Singapore’s corporate income tax rate is flat at 17%.
Panama
Panama is one of the best countries one could move to if they wanted to save every little penny.
How?
Well, Panama is one of few countries in the world that imposes zero taxes on offshore companies.
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Luxembourg
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