You can't work it out, it's as developed as it needs to be which is fortunate because the bigger brain that we were implanted with is a resource hog and doesn't leave any extra sugar for the real brain.
Redditors don't seem like the book reading types more like the endless scrolling types
It does need "working out", education and reading is a good way to "exercise" your mind and make mental "gains"
Even just reading classic novels will teach you a lot, not to mention all the nonfiction books that can teach you how to do virtually anything you want
You can also train yourself to compete in games of mental ability like chess or other strategic games
literature is the most mind atrophying pseudo intellectual garbage ever conceived by humanity. You would be more intellectually stimulated by playing a game of online checkers with some 80 IQ shitskin with internet access than reading an ~~*acclaimed*~~ novel or classics. Anybody interested in stories in the form of books, movies, etc. any format of storytelling is braindead NPC and does not deserve to live.
If you’re on about John Steinbeck or Great Gatsby sure. But anything by Lovecraft or Howard is great, although if you want novels then Apes of God is a banger. Don’t say that one isn’t stimulating you intellectually you whippersnapper!
Not really.
Your brain is super activated when you're reading on your non-fiction, using your imagination and analysing what's going on. Plus your verbal iq theoretically improving too. If you read out loud your articulation gets better. And reading makes you more focused.
Storytelling was integral to human evolution. I agree that a lot of literature is obfucated drivel designed to maintain a historical class of those who (pretend) to understand and those who do not, but discrediting the usefulness of the whole thing is insane.
the brain is not a monolith, we can't choose which faculties are worth developing because if we want to increase its plasticity and the scope of it connections we have to use it thoroughly and in novel ways, and literature provides very unique opportunities in that regard
it's also precisely because it's something so alien and puzzling to you that you should give it a serious effort
Gotta love these braindead counter counter culture opinions. You retards are contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. All with the same NPC opinions
There are a lot of great books out there that people just enjoy reading, but my favorite book of course is the Holy Bible.
Christianity encourages and even enabled global literacy through the printing press, as well as giving us the university education system.
If you don't like reading books and would rather make cringe AI art then go for it, but you don't need to create some sort of racist clown logic to justify the fact that you aren't well read or into books.
the secret to brain training is learning that unlike your body, your brain responds more to qualitative than quantitative adaptation
so although your body will show great response to you picking up a few exercises and mastering them, with your brain it's often the process of figuring something out that counts the most
when we get to the advanced stages of a skill what we're usually doing is just collecting, through practice, data points for pattern recognition, adding new layers of information to mechanisms we usually learned in the early stages. but it's when you go from "this is impossible" to "actually i can do this" that the real gains are made, not when you're refining what you already know
theoretically it's possible for a skill to require many cycles of adaptation of this nature, as in: you'd get to a level, practice, hit a ceiling, and then you'd have to master something completely new in order to advance past it, but i'm not aware of anything like that so going for variety is your best bet
So, coding or math is essentially one of the best brain workout? Any task for a newbie seems impossible and the more you learn the harder tasks you get
i just started reading the passenger by cormac mccarthy (im on like page 10 lol) but what the FUCK was that intro with the thalodomide kid and the girl
Scrolling tiktok and IG is basically working out the brain at full sprint because of how quickly you need to absorb all that information..
t. some gay probably
you can turn anything, and i mean literally anything, into a way to train the mind provided that you have the right heuristic for it.
if you have internalized the core concepts of lifting you could still find ways to stay fit without a gym or any equipment, because you'd be aware of how your body works and how it adapts, you know what movements to perform, how often, with what intensity, and you could use that to turn any crap in your environment into a tool
in the same spirit, when people think of training the brain they immediately think of activities that are considered cultured, highbrow or logical like math, chess, philosophy, music or language learning, which are good, but if you know how to engage the different areas of your brain you don't necessarily need them. matter of fact, i think finding new, mentally demanding ways to approach everyday bullshit that most people engage with in a mindless manner is a good way to sustain growth over the years, because then you don't need to necessarily add new time-consuming hobbies to your routine
>always studied and had top grades in schooling and thought I was smart >went to college where I performed like shit and realized I was a mouth breathing retard >graduated college 8 years ago and have done nothing of any consequence since, don't even have a career >brain is complete absolute mush, remember absolutely nothing from any level of schooling, basically now just a drooling retard
most of you autists need more genuine conversation in person. yeah yeah i know, normies aren't capable of that either - well try to at least understand them; trying to view how someone else experiences the world can be stimulating if depressing
>tfw iq is 146 >running at 40 on average >become a genius out of necessity
I'm what you call a retarded genius
how do I reduce the level of retarded I am on average?
if i am racist is it my conscious or my actual brain that hates a certain people? Is there some kind of primal racism gene our ancestors needed to use to survive?
Why do we have a bunch of cauliflower in the rear part of our brains?
That's the old brain, the only part that can't lie to you.
How do I work out that part of the brain? Is that that part that tells me to hate garden gnomes and morons?
You can't work it out, it's as developed as it needs to be which is fortunate because the bigger brain that we were implanted with is a resource hog and doesn't leave any extra sugar for the real brain.
learn new movements
it's what teaches your muscles their movements until they become muscle memory
Is that the part that gets most activated when you take psychedelics?
i want to put a bullet throught he cauliflower part of my brain
its yumme 🙂
Reddit moment
Redditors don't seem like the book reading types more like the endless scrolling types
It does need "working out", education and reading is a good way to "exercise" your mind and make mental "gains"
Even just reading classic novels will teach you a lot, not to mention all the nonfiction books that can teach you how to do virtually anything you want
You can also train yourself to compete in games of mental ability like chess or other strategic games
too hard
that's where the gains are
/fitlit/ thread?
literature is the most mind atrophying pseudo intellectual garbage ever conceived by humanity. You would be more intellectually stimulated by playing a game of online checkers with some 80 IQ shitskin with internet access than reading an ~~*acclaimed*~~ novel or classics. Anybody interested in stories in the form of books, movies, etc. any format of storytelling is braindead NPC and does not deserve to live.
i agree movement and competition with critical thinking will be better than any gay book
Yeah some gay on IST knows better than Homer kys
ok reddit
yea cause homer simpson was known for his intelligence ctfu
You're a funny guy hehe.
If you’re on about John Steinbeck or Great Gatsby sure. But anything by Lovecraft or Howard is great, although if you want novels then Apes of God is a banger. Don’t say that one isn’t stimulating you intellectually you whippersnapper!
Not really.
Your brain is super activated when you're reading on your non-fiction, using your imagination and analysing what's going on. Plus your verbal iq theoretically improving too. If you read out loud your articulation gets better. And reading makes you more focused.
Storytelling was integral to human evolution. I agree that a lot of literature is obfucated drivel designed to maintain a historical class of those who (pretend) to understand and those who do not, but discrediting the usefulness of the whole thing is insane.
I agree. I only read at work to pass the time. If I had something more productive to do I would do it
this is the wrong approach.
the brain is not a monolith, we can't choose which faculties are worth developing because if we want to increase its plasticity and the scope of it connections we have to use it thoroughly and in novel ways, and literature provides very unique opportunities in that regard
it's also precisely because it's something so alien and puzzling to you that you should give it a serious effort
retard opinion
Gotta love these braindead counter counter culture opinions. You retards are contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. All with the same NPC opinions
Man you are just hateful and trolling.
There are a lot of great books out there that people just enjoy reading, but my favorite book of course is the Holy Bible.
Christianity encourages and even enabled global literacy through the printing press, as well as giving us the university education system.
If you don't like reading books and would rather make cringe AI art then go for it, but you don't need to create some sort of racist clown logic to justify the fact that you aren't well read or into books.
>He doesn't play bullet chess in between sets
ngmi
the secret to brain training is learning that unlike your body, your brain responds more to qualitative than quantitative adaptation
so although your body will show great response to you picking up a few exercises and mastering them, with your brain it's often the process of figuring something out that counts the most
when we get to the advanced stages of a skill what we're usually doing is just collecting, through practice, data points for pattern recognition, adding new layers of information to mechanisms we usually learned in the early stages. but it's when you go from "this is impossible" to "actually i can do this" that the real gains are made, not when you're refining what you already know
theoretically it's possible for a skill to require many cycles of adaptation of this nature, as in: you'd get to a level, practice, hit a ceiling, and then you'd have to master something completely new in order to advance past it, but i'm not aware of anything like that so going for variety is your best bet
So, coding or math is essentially one of the best brain workout? Any task for a newbie seems impossible and the more you learn the harder tasks you get
I do math.
i just started reading the passenger by cormac mccarthy (im on like page 10 lol) but what the FUCK was that intro with the thalodomide kid and the girl
Scrolling tiktok and IG is basically working out the brain at full sprint because of how quickly you need to absorb all that information..
t. some gay probably
you can turn anything, and i mean literally anything, into a way to train the mind provided that you have the right heuristic for it.
if you have internalized the core concepts of lifting you could still find ways to stay fit without a gym or any equipment, because you'd be aware of how your body works and how it adapts, you know what movements to perform, how often, with what intensity, and you could use that to turn any crap in your environment into a tool
in the same spirit, when people think of training the brain they immediately think of activities that are considered cultured, highbrow or logical like math, chess, philosophy, music or language learning, which are good, but if you know how to engage the different areas of your brain you don't necessarily need them. matter of fact, i think finding new, mentally demanding ways to approach everyday bullshit that most people engage with in a mindless manner is a good way to sustain growth over the years, because then you don't need to necessarily add new time-consuming hobbies to your routine
At the library
Gimmie 5 riemann integrals.
i develop and maintain a piece of software and occasionally read books (educational)
learning new things seems to be the right way to train your brain
doesnt working out work your brain and nervous system?
>always studied and had top grades in schooling and thought I was smart
>went to college where I performed like shit and realized I was a mouth breathing retard
>graduated college 8 years ago and have done nothing of any consequence since, don't even have a career
>brain is complete absolute mush, remember absolutely nothing from any level of schooling, basically now just a drooling retard
most of you autists need more genuine conversation in person. yeah yeah i know, normies aren't capable of that either - well try to at least understand them; trying to view how someone else experiences the world can be stimulating if depressing
>tfw iq is 146
>running at 40 on average
>become a genius out of necessity
I'm what you call a retarded genius
how do I reduce the level of retarded I am on average?
/fitlit/ was the best thing to happen on this site in a long time.
Yes, that’s why I listen to both translated and original Hitler speeches when I lift
Best workout to brainmax?
Reading
Chess or Go
Word or logic puzzles
>reading
Genre? Or doesn't matter (aka whatever I find interesting)?
if i am racist is it my conscious or my actual brain that hates a certain people? Is there some kind of primal racism gene our ancestors needed to use to survive?
That's why I play video games 10+ hours per day. Best workout you can do