Thread by @NOTfunnyparanR

Should I make a book
“How dumb people can be smart consistently?”

Since only 20% of people consider themselves below average IQ, and dumb people can’t read, it will probably be a small audience.

For example
1) Costanza — “if every instinct is exactly wrong the opposite would have to be right”
2)Munger + Sherlock — “if you don’t know the correct answer but can consistently eliminate the stupid answers whatever remains selected randomly is smarter than average on average”

3)Increasing bloodflow to brain… intelligence is limited to how much oxygen can get to your brain. So spend (5m) at a time using gravity to increase blood-flow (long periods risks damage)it may increase capacity.
4)The brain is a muscle… give it a workout and rest & recovery

This will increase something called “neuroplasticity” and “synaptic density” which refers to the brains ability to form new connections and the number of connections in a particular brain region. (You tend to get better with experience)
5)IQ Cloning. Find smart & credible…

use their arguments. If it were chess between grandmasters—You see white’s move in game 1 and you make that move in game 2. You see how black response in game 2 and you move as black in game 1. This isn’t “your” IQ but you are outsourcing realizations….

6) Cross pollinate IQ cloning— If you can get ideas from fields that don’t normally connect together, the “result” becomes your “own”. You facilitated the “intelligence”.
Consistently being aware of multiple disciplines enables intelligent application of ideas above your IQ.

7) Be hyper aware of common pitfalls & mistakes from beginners and “stay the hell away”. Munger’s “inversion” and Buffett’s “margin of error” applied to learning.

8)find your Ikigai —Japanese term for your “purpose/reason” specifically as it applies to your aptitudes.

9)Spend a lot of time where you are the dumbest person in the room but when it comes to what you are known for or professional setting make sure you also spend time in the dumbest rooms or at least with dumber people you can contrast yourself against to look smart.

10) Risk management. As someone self aware about your own IQ, you have a huge advantage of not trying to make big risks way above your aptitudes when the cost is high. However, when the cost is low and payoff is high, consistently taking risks should be done.

This increases perceived IQ which increases your association and respect from other actually smart people which increases the amount of ideas smart people share which you can use to reinforce the cycle of faux intelligence until the mix of these ideas creates high iq insight

A mechanic was paid to fix something. He walked in and hit a hammer & fixed it. “That’ll be $200” he said. “$200? For hitting a hammer” “no. Hitting a hammer $5, knowing where & which hammer—$195.” With low IQ you can learn the skills of which “hammer” to use & where…

11) Network. If you are low IQ but have the right network, you may not have the Iq to solve the problem, but if you are skilled enough to know which expert to use, you can solve high IQ problems with help from your network. This can make you powerful.

The midwit and high IQ trap that causes IQ to correlate only weakly with financial success is that high IQ people think they can do it all the best and should themselves rather than learning how to lean on others. This traps them. If you don’t have that bias—you’re free!

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