Get Smarter

03/31/2014

When people care for you they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes

The author of Smarter Than You Think, Clive Thompson offered these tips for making the most of your mental hardware in Psychology Today (March 2014):

Turn Off Your Computer: "If you're a person who works with words all day, its good to do something completely nonverbal in your spare time.... Knowing when to shift between public and private thinking - when to blast an idea online, when to let it slow-bake - is a crucial skill."

Chew it Over: "Passion drives memory. It is incumbent upon people who want to be creative to really wrestle with the material they are thinking about. So you have to have those disconnected moments when you think without being distracted."

Think in Groups: "Our intelligence has never been entirely just in our heads. A huge amount of our thinking takes place in... the 'extended mind' - all sorts of resources outside us that help scaffold our thinking. We rely on other people as cognitive amplifiers."

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