intelligence
89 Day 11 Action Plan
Read the day 11 discussion.
Buy a notebook you can keep with you and start keeping a journal.
Buy the book, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci by Gelb and read it.
Read Walden, by Henry David Thoreau.
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Ideas of intelligence and creativity change. The SAT test for high school students will be revised again in a couple of months. Methods of teaching change as educators revise their methods. But one concept has not changed for centuries: the idea that conserving the sex energy increases intelligence.
You’ve already done the most powerful thing you can do for your intelligence if you’re practicing the pervious days lessons. You should see your overall health and brain function take a significant leap. But it’s worth pointing out a few highlights and offering a few other suggestions.
Many physicians overlook the hormone replacement area. Hundreds of patients have told me that they felt the “fog lift” after I fine-tuned their hormone replacement. Thyroid, testosterone, estrogen, and growth hormone all have profound effects on thinking and memory.
Walking is very important to mentation. Lack of aerobic exercise and poor exercise habits are the number two cause of preventable death in the United States (after the number 1 preventable cause, smoking tobacco). Not only will walking cut your risk of death in ½ when you make it to 20 to 25 miles per week, you will also change your hormonal status in a way that helps you think more clearly.
Assuming you’re doing all these things, you’re ready to rev-up things a little more with a journal. O.K. so at first thought it doesn’t sound to manly to you. Maybe you picture a teenage girl writing dear diary to the illumination of a lava lamp. Forget the image. Instead picture Lewis and Clark mapping the wild frontier, or King David (who slew Goliath and shared some of his journal—the Psalms), or Leonardo da Vinci.
For a good guide on how to use a journal to increase your intelligence, study the book, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, by Gelb and do the exercises. Or buy the workbook by the same author (this workbook doubles as a journal).
Also, I highly recommend the recorded and printed version of Accelerated Learning Techniques by Brian Tracy.
“Use it or lose it” is a phrase that has been proven over and over again to be true of the brain. Try to absorb at least one book per week and keep notes in your journal. It doesn’t have to be one of the classics. Just let your interests take you where you need to go.
Cultivate the company of people who talk about ideas and what they’ve read. Places to find such people include church, the local bookstore, and local schools.
Do these things combined with what you’ve already learned about transmuting sex energy into better health and you should see your intelligence and creativity do more than you thought possible.
A great thinker once said that there are a thousand things within a man that he will never know until he picks up a pen and paper.
Watch for energy stealers. People who talk incessantly, who constantly struggle with turmoil, who use alcohol excessively and any illegal drugs—these people will drain you of energy and lower your concentration and your effective IQ. How does it help you to have a
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brain that genetically is able to think clearly and quickly and creatively if you’re slowed by negative thinking and distraction? What good does it do to have a violin to play but be mostly in the company of a jackhammer? You must spend much of your day in a place that supports clear thinking with people who try to see clearly.
Supplements
Lecithin and Ginko are my favorite.
Lecithin should be taken in the liquid form. Add about one tablespoon to a protein shake once a day. Or, just take a spoon full (it tastes like nuts) and then wash it down with your
favorite bevorage.
Caffeine can increase your focus but is very addictive and can also lead to rebound headaches and dullness. If you use caffeine regularly, try to get most of your caffeine from green tea. If you drink regular tea or coffee, try to by the organically grown teas and coffees and grind them yourself (to avoid pesticides). If you use sweetener, use either small amount of honey or splenda (avoid aspartamine).
If you take daily aspirin then you should avoid the Ginko.
Gensing helps some.
The B vitamins help as does vitamin E and C. With the vitamins, you’re preventing decline more than increasing baseline intelligence.
Learning
Reading. Doesn’t need to be the classics.
Listening to tapes while walking. The hour class in the morning. Using the CD player.
Brian Tracy on accelerated learning.
Formal classes can be much more that just an occasional college course at your local community college. Decide what you could learn that would make a huge difference in your life and then study the subject. Go to the library and read or scan at least one book a week on the subject. Talk to local experts in person and world experts by email or phone. Go to weekend and day-long seminars concerning the subject you wish to explore over the next year. Take notes and form opinions of your own.
Always learn as if you would be required to do or teach (not just to know). People teach you much. Not just teachers. Everyone around you knows more about something than you do. Make a habit of considering conversation to be a time of teaching and learning. Every time you’re with another person, try to find out what that person knows that you want to understand and ask them to teach you. Ask them to draw diagrams. Take notes. I may just be a new joke.
Maybe it’s a new recepie. Maybe it’s something interesting about the town where they were born. But search for the thing they know that you most want to know and ask them to teach you.
Keep a journal and make notes on everything that interests you. Make sketches of ideas and things seen. Try sketching improtant features of people you know. Write down 100 questions you wish to have answered.
Art and Creativity
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Work can be art. But consider doing either traditional art drawings or paintings as a way to study the things around you.
Listen to music and play a musical instrument of some type at least once a week for a few minutes. Go to the art displays near your home and just sit in proximity to good art. Music uses the same part of the brain as math.
Talk about Getty’s assesment of the American in Europe.
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Day 12: Transmute sex energy into spiritual awakening