Smart People Stay Up Late, Do More Drugs, Have More Sex

What is the mark of an intelligent mind in our day and age? When we think of intelligent people, we may have been conditioned to envision them in a library somewhere studying. We associate intelligence with social reservation and good behaviour.

But what if the opposite were true? What if the ones who are most intelligent are engaging in behaviours grandma and grandpa wouldn’t approve of? Times have changed, and people who have a higher intelligence aren’t always interested in studying and following the rules.

This may sound a bit shocking, but a series of studies have come out showing that intelligent people stay up later, do more drugs, and have more sex. The people in our society who have the highest IQs are nocturnal and enjoy indulging in drugs and sex more often than people with a lower IQ.

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Meditation Boosts Brain Power

Meditation is a century's old practice of relaxing the mind, improving thought power and exercising both the body and soul.

Meditation comes down through so many religious beliefs as well such as Buddhism and Hinduism. It can also be termed as a global practice because it is common within all religion, countries and cultures.

What exactly is meditation anyway?

According to Rob Nairn (the author of the book What is Meditation?) : "It [Meditation] is a highly alert and skillful state of mind because it requires one to remain psychologically present, and with whatever happens in and around one, without adding to or subtracting from it in any way."

So many scientific experiments have been carried out for years to find out the influence meditation has on the human brain.

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Improve Your Memory with Silly Stories

Source: Memory Improvement Techniques

You've heard about several memory enhancing techniques. Linking and associating, creating a story out of several items you need to remember.

There are in fact, many ways how you can remember important information such as numbers, events, errands and names. The challenge is how to make all the information easy to retrieve, out of the top of your head in a random situation.

Memory techniques work on anything that you like to master. 

There are things you may need to work on in memorizing something for the first time but all information has techniques on how they can all be memorized. It just takes a lot of interest and enthusiasm to be able to absorb all the information we want to understand and remember.

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9 Ways to Make Yourself Smarter

By Jamie Condliffe / Source: Gizmodo.com

It often seems like everything you do, touch, or eat can make you smarter or dumber. But that's not quite the case.

There are, of course, plenty of ways to tweak your life in order to gain yourself a little cognitive advantage over the competition. The problem is that some have very little real effect. Others are more trouble than they're worth. 

Here's a guide to some of the most effective ways to boost your brain power. 

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