Can You Make Yourself Smarter? 

If you looked for this video, that very action says yes you can make yourself smarter. If you've been on any kind of knowledge quest, just think of how much smarter you are now. The future is you continuing to progress with getting smarter

Iam always watching this kind of videos when i do pot.

This is wonderful news for me. Now I can stop blaming my failures in exams on predetermined intellect and start doing something about it. Thanks!

for those tl:dw he gives 7 ways to make yourself smarter: 1. N-back online 2. Exercise 3. Music training 4. mindfulness meditation 5. Lumosity - brain training 6. Transcranial Direct-Current stimulation 7. Nicotine patch - 7mg per day

I have met some really dumb people in university... In my opinion, knowledge do not always equal intelligence.

I've been obsessed with becoming smart since 2014. I just want to be a genius and go to Yale University, Georgetown University, and Harvard. :(

Human brain is like any other organs such as muscles, the more you exercise it, the better it becomes.

Although, it has been two years after the upload of this lecture, it still holds its value in great encouragement to better oneself. Thank you very much for your time and effort.

I for one have clearly felt my intelligence rise and fall with time, based on the amount of intelligent activity I was doing on a regular basis for an extended period of time. I kind of personally concluded that exercising your brain regularly makes you an overall smarter person, but for an instant boost of intelligence, like taking a test, suspending all cognitively challenging activity for a few days prior to the deadline is the way to go.

I've reduced my brain to two brain cells - one to maintain minimal body functions and the other to figure out how to reduce my intelligence even further.

He looks abut like Walter white and a healthy ghandi

I've been looking for this forever

Flowers for Algernon was one of my favorite stories from 8th grade.

in the future when this stuff is more understood it should be used as a lesson in schools, hopefully it could have a real positive effect in underprivileged places.

People seem to think that because there are examples of people who "try really hard" who don't succeed, they break Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule. But what does "try really hard" mean? They put in 20 hours a week for a year and tried really hard the whole time? That's only 1040 hours (if every one of those 20 hours was purely useful practice, and involved no form of procrastination). I think you'd be hard pressed to meet someone who's worked solidly between 20-40 hours a week for 5-10 years who wasn't successful

Good lecture...

Love this video👍

People underestimate the placebo effect.

Absolutely! I believe that I can make myself smarter.

Something new/naval it has to be challenging! 👍

I love this video so much, Dan Hurley said everything I have been thinking about for the past year when it comes to intelligence. Just like him, I have become increasingly tired of these assholes and writers who just talk about emotional development and that your intelligence is fixed. I don't believe intelligence is a fixed factor at all and I would say that everyone has the possibility to be extremely intelligent no matter what their starting point is.

This couldn't get more academic... However he gave some good explanations.

''Spiderman made me smarter'' -------________--------

I love your videos

you don't need to become smarter. What you need to do is become the best you can be, b.c most people have even reached their full potential.

He did so many things at once that it is hard to say what was effective.

One of the biggest ways to get smarter is to sleep well. Look up how industrialization->Modernization along with the phasing out of the biphasic sleep cycle in the Mediterranean countries has done to health outcomes. The hippocampus is meant for short-term learning and memory storage but it definitely has a capacity that can be hit during a day's work. A nap deep enough to activate your sleep spindles allows for the transfer of short-term to long-term memory and therefore clears up your hippocampus for more learning.

I think being "smart" is linked to perfectionism. I'm a scientist for a top university, got some of the best grades in school, and was in the top 1% in university. I still think of myself as seriously stupid, more so than anyone at work, or any of my friends. To become "smart" is impossible in some peoples standards, as although you may be perceived as such by those who see it as something simple, such as a job title or your degree classification; those of whom realise that being "smart" is multifaceted will realise that you can never truly be as such.

8:00 working memory

Wisdom.

4:35 Dude in crowd is dead asleep lol

Smart people seem to have hair loss problem ...

looks like "healthy" gandhi!

I wish he had mentioned what it did (or didn't do ) to his iq score before and after he trained his brain and mentioned research in relation to change in iq

12:10"People that are smokers, who were smokers, have half the risk of developing parkinsons." Couldn't help but think, maybe cigarets just kill early those who have the highest risk of developing parkinsons.

Instead of all these steps, he can improve his intellect or intelligence simply being grateful for how nature intended to his creation and tap into the dimention of meditation on finding out who he is. Body and mind are just things we accumulated over time, there is a "third" dimention which cannot be discovered by outside forces like the trainings and chemicals he mentioned, this third dimention is called the true yourself which is limitless in intellect, intelligence and know everything about you and the world out there.

The lute!!? That proves you are intelligent.

Yeah, Brazil!!!

True

transcranial direct current stimulation 👍🏻👏🏻

That's funny! I'm high on the moderate functioning level of autism spectrum & mentally challenged, and I wish to be a a genius to free myself from not fitting in the neurotypical culture, being taken advantage of, getting peered pressured to act and think as in a current level of a functioning I'm in, & more situations I am facing! Like getting attention that doesn't make me feel too comfortable.

I am in awe of the speakers credentials and all the smart people listening to him. I wish he had answered one question in support of his assertions i.e. did his performance on validated intelligence tests improve after the exercises he undertook? What anecdotal evidence can he offer that he was actually smarter from training his mind. Incidentally the site noted above either doesn't exist or is a wrong address.

Fast learner. Impressive

Nice shirt

Yeah, but this guy is highly biased and primed by his expectations of the outcome. Of course you will feel better if you expect to feel better through something.

And you know? And like, the thing? Because it worked, kind of? And every sentence is ended like a question?

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I did not understand what he said at 9:00 something like N L L and repeating it . Can anyone tell what it was.

On the Topic of Bi-Polarity of the Human Brain (and while we’re on the subject, human intelligence and the philosophy of questions) by Ashley France Brown ‘87 I am not a scientist. I always wanted to be a scientist. Destiny, however, had another life in store for me. I want to be up front with that, so there is no misunderstanding that what I am putting forth here has ever met with academic, scientific blessing. It is, however, my experience, and an experience it has been, indeed. For what I have discovered in the period of time since I matriculated at Brown and the present has been a wealth of knowledge about the workings of the human brain - a brain mapping, of sorts. (This is a very jolly field these days, just as bi-polar disorder was the darling of the 2000’s.) And this knowledge, as so many other things in my crazy life, has come to me inside out. You see, mine was a twisted but meteoric rise. From early childhood I excelled in science, math, language, classical piano, art. At 17, I graduated a year early from high school and was accepted at Brown University. By 19, I was pregnant, penniless, and wife to what would become a physically abusive Dutchman. But failure was my motivator. By 26, I had a full-time job as a paralegal, had another baby, divorced said battering husband, and finished at Brown on a full academic scholarship (Cum Honoribus in Lingua Gallica, thank you very much!). I became (as a woman - unheard of back then) the CFO and Director of Administration of one of Providence’s three largest law firms by age 32. At 34, I attended the Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program. And then suddenly I crashed and burned. I was stricken down like Icarus by the blight (or blessing?) of severe Bi-Polar 1 Disorder, diagnosed borderline psychotic. My first nervous breakdown came in 1995, at the tender age of 34, though in retrospect I can easily trace the disorder leading up to that life-quake back to episodes with severe migraine headaches and depression in my late adolescence. And like most people who find themselves in a terribly, clinically depressed state for the first time, I believed it would be my first and ONLY time. I just needed a rest. How adorable. What followed, however, was to be years and years of cycles within cycles of depression and mania and depression, medications that turned me into a zombie, a plethora of hospital admissions, rounds and rounds of ECT (this is the politically correct term for electro-shock therapy) &c, all the while desperately trying to hold down a job and raise now three children on my own. At first I saw this, as I am sure most of you do, as a Great Tragedy - a huge sine wave traveling the x-axis of a mood graph: up and down, up and down. The brand-spanking-new DSM 5 (the Holy Bible of Psychiatric Diagnosis) would certainly agree with you. But here is the unexpected outcome of my decades-long struggle: What I have learned from such an extraordinary Odyssey is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that the sine wave of my “illness” does NOT wind along the x-axis of our mood graph, but actually winds back and forth, left to right, along the y-axis of a brain graph (i.e., the shifting back and forth of consciousness between the Left Mind and the Right Mind), with the secondary effect of changing mood. It is my experience, (and I refer you here to Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor - a real scientist - who expresses much the same experience in her wonderful TED Talk, My Stroke of Insight), that the left hemisphere of the brain works with what computer scientists call a serial processor, feeding one bit of information at a time to the Left Brain, keeping Time from past to present, calculating probabilities for the future, processing memories and conclusions in linear form. This side of the brain is uniquely involved in the functioning of Grammar - for language, for math, for music, for values. It is very clinical in its demeanor. It does not Hope, but rather rationalizes its future. Most importantly, this brain gives Voice to Mankind. Juxtapose this with the right hemisphere, which runs with a parallel processor, able to take in and process entire matrices of information in an instant, as if rather than speed reading, the entire book popped into your mind all at once. This side of the brain, redundancy notwithstanding, controls our sense of color, of pattern, of space, of dance and play and creativity and aesthetics. A cyclical beast, the right hemisphere exists in a perpetual state of emotional joy and happiness, where the Hope valve is always fully open, and all possibilities exist. The Right Brain is a world where Time is substituted with Eternal Peace. It is at One with the Universe. And yet, it has no language, no Voice with which to speak. All of which brings us back to our sine wave. Given my history with “mental illness,” what I am proposing here is that what we refer to as the “severe” mental illnesses are a result of the Right Brain shutting itself off from the Left Brain. To use an analogy, the Left Brain is the little brother, darling and sharp, but hopelessly annoying, and the Right Brain is its older sister, kind and patient, exponentially brighter, but not unwilling to smack her sibling upside the head every now and again. Left alone in the cold and rational left side of the brain, is it any wonder that one becomes distraught? Left alone without voice in the right side of the brain, is it any wonder that one bangs his or her head against the wall? Most people are not consciously in control of the workings of the Right Brain, thus the speculation that we only use about 10% of our actual brain power. We can see examples of right-hemisphere consciousness, however, in people who are musically, artistically, physically creative, in people who are left handed, in people who exhibit genius or savant, and in people who fall along the spectrum of brain “disorders” from schizophrenia to bi-polar to autism to Asperger’s to ADHD and dyslexia. I will recommend here that you take a look at the TED Talk of Dr. Temple Grandin on the subject (The World Needs All Kinds of Minds). She also bears the academic credentials that I do not. It is my opinion that these “mental illnesses” are only deemed to be illnesses by people who generally have little or no conscious control of the Right Brain. Sadly, we have come to this wretched prejudice toward the “mentally ill” simply because it is very rare for a person who lives consciously in the Right Mind to be able to give Voice that mind, as language ability is restricted to Broca’s Cortex located in the left hemisphere of the brain. Ergo, what we have misconstrued as “idiotic” or “irrational” is actually a simple problem of Translation and, as I noted in the beginning of this piece. I just happen to be one of the lucky few who have both a conscious Left and Right Mind, and a breadth of knowledge of foreign languages that has enabled me, after around 20 years of Solitary Confinement in my own brain, to have discovered a Center Mind, the Great Arbitrator and Translator, the Mother in the Middle that seems so elusive to our general experience as Homo sapiens. This, my friends, is syzygy. The world of psychiatry is in its primitive state, hundreds of years behind the world of other medicine. Worse, the deck is stacked by Left-Brain thinkers, who make up IQ tests and other means of psychometrics. Still, this discovery of mine does not intrude on the general knowledge of the psychology of personality development, nor is it particularly helpful for the growing number of people suffering from stress-related depression. It does, however, suggest a new direction for psychiatry and the treatment of the more severe “disabilities,” what I will call Translation Deficiencies common to most people, “mentally ill” or not. Niels Bohr once said that an Expert is a person who has found out, by his own painful experience, all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field. Using this definition, I will call myself something of an expert in neuro-hemispherical translation. Yet my purpose here is certainly not self-aggrandizement, but rather a most humble pleading with the psychiatric community to take another look at what we are doing to those millions of our fellow Human Beings, myself included, whose only “problem” is the inability of the rest of the World to understand their perspective. I am beseeching someone in psychiatric academia to work with me in documenting and growing this method of treating the “mentally ill” or, to put it more bluntly, I wish to change the current psychiatric paradigm (freshly minted in the DSM 5). Brown University is notorious in the Ivy League for its philosophy of teaching its students how to ask the right questions, rather than how to give the right answers. The question is, is anyone up for the challenge of shifting paradigms? Who would like to learn to speak Right Brain? I am certainly willing to translate… Northampton, MA 14 February, 2014

I was getting C's and B's in English and now I have been getting A's for a while now so if I am able to become smarter then anyone can.

Every episode of Dr. STONE I watch I feel like a 5Head

Very cool, but not a whole lot of science.

he is a mix between Mike and Heisenberg....

I’m surprised this wasn’t a TED talk.

"THERE ARE ALOT OF STUDIES"

Me three hours before my exam:

Has anyone tried donepezil?

9:07, 'pretty easy'... and then he proceeds to fail! Interesting stuff though

Can i be a smarter like others

Life will be a lot easier if people researched and tried it out themselves instead of judging.. the western world likes watching instead of doing. Even though I was born and raised in a western world I always hated their characteristics for some strange reason. Like this isn't how life is suppose to be and everyone is brainwashed in some way.

Summary? Anyone? Please?

0:26

The brain never stops. So many people in the comments have little understanding about brain plasticity, as well as neurogenesis and brain regeneration

it has long been the scientific consensus (inxs. 4 decades) that intelligence is not a merely a genetically fixed characteristic, but rather that it is the product of both genetics and environmental factors. Dan Hurley seems to want to pretend that this idea is only about 6 years old. In general the rendering of scientific history, scientific research and terminology in this talk was shockingly poor.

Guy looks like a villain in a movie. His name could be Dr Evil

is it normal that he looks like Rashkovsky from that heist in gta online

I’m just seven and I want to be smart

I have had problems with my short-term and working memory for most of my life. It made it really hard to get through school and to this day I often have trouble with some tasks. I've started doing some memory exercises. I really hope that they help. I feel really embarrassed sometimes that I have trouble with the things that I do. :(

I'm stupid help

You should probably put a disclaimer that you don't want people who have never touched nicotine to go start using it.

Oof, lost me the second he started talking about the tasks and definitely the luminosity movement. Luminosity turned out to be a scam in a class action. Their studies were all completely falsified. All complete pseudo science. You get good at the tasks presented to you like anything else, it doesn’t increase over all fluid intelligence. Please do not listen to this misinformation.

The moment he said Lumosity has good some good effects I know the talk is B.S.

"no duh"

For her lady fingership, barreness von glove.

am already a gineuswill b smrter 2moz

My family says Im dumb so here I am trying get smart

I'm so dumb. I'm a failure and a lost cause. I want to be smart but I'm dumb forever

Totally misinterpreted Malcolm's book with 10,000 hours theory. On contrary Malcolm saus that being successful is very complex to predict or understand.

Some aspects of intelligence seem to be improvable, like working memory, but some don't, like IQ. Knowledge and specific skills can of course be improved.

I gave up after two weeks

Demonstrating that a hypothesis leads to evil results is not an argument for why it's false.

Not electricity or nicotine ? Nicotinic receptors in your brain

Hey man don't you be lying cuz I got my life riding on this shitnow

Smarter as in wiser? Yes. More intelligent? No.

BTW, the N back test also has been shown not to improve general cognitive function. No matter how hideously difficult or strenuous mental exercise you do, you will not become any smarter as a result.I used to do sudoku 2 hours a day, brain training games on the computer.Ive been learning piano for 8 years.Now I'm still hopelessly stupid, forgetful, and slow learning. Brain training doesnt make you any smarter, end of story...

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Of course one can make one's self smarter.

YES WE CAN Obama 2016!!

How's the example with Beatles relevant to intelligence and working hard...

not with those glasses

He looks like the brain from pinky and the brain, but in human form.

the guy was falling in sleep in the front

smartsmartphones

if you don't realize the answer within the first minute i have bad news

I used to have an IQ of 152 at the age of 18, now at 37 my iq is 135.

My dumb brain unable to understand the exercise he's doing and hearing : n l l n a l l n a l

we are the human tall under 1 inch in video of the ควาย คน of the ควาย สูง1นิ้ว เปลี่ยนหน้า up to me

i bet he has tried nootropic drugs too

Can i make my self smarter? 😫😜😓

He changed his behavior, but how is that smart?