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A Weekly Letter With Tips and Ideas to Improve How Your Life and Business Work - and Other Interesting Things that Catch my Eye!
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January 13, 2018 - Issue 18-02
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Good afternoon. I hope you're on your way to a successful 2018.
How often have you heard someone say, "Intelligence is nature rather than nurture"? In other words, they're saying that you've got is just what you were born with,
Studies show that people's IQ's can change over time. That would suggest that there are environmental factors involved.
Read on below, and see what some of those factors are, and how you can change the way they affect you and your intelligence.
Enjoy!
John Stevens at Unity Copywriting
Marketing Support for the Business Coaching Industry
Office and cell phone: 814-590-3854 or 603-835-3215
In Argentina: +54(country code) 9 3868 459586
Skype: johnbstevens1943
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You Can Change Your IQ!
Before I get into the nitty-gritty of the techniques we'll discuss, let me address the argument as to whether or not one can actually change his or her IQ.
Looking up definitions of intelligence, I found a variety. Distilling those definitions, I'm taking the license (Hey - it's my letter, right?) to say intelligence is one's ability to take whatever knowledge she has, organize it, and put it to effective use in life.
Does more knowledge equal more intelligence? Only if it's effectively organized and applied to life.
Does less knowledge equal less intelligence? Actually, one with less knowledge might be more intelligent, if he applies what knowledge he has more effectively.
Can hanging around with people more intelligent than you increase your intelligence? Certainly, if you watch what they do, how they apply their knowledge to life situations, and learn from them. This is one of the techniques
Nicloas Cole describes in
the article I'm referencing this week.
5 Simple (not Always Easy) Ways to Get Smarter!
So here we go. If you clicked on the link to Cole's article, You'll see that he recommends:
- Reading.
- Spending time with smarter people.
- Learning from mistakes.
- Acquiring broad, rather than narrowly-focused, knowledge.
- Working hard at whatever pursuit you choose as your chief aim in life.
Another suggestion I ran across several times in my research is to play
Dual-N-Back, a game new to me which exercises short- to mid- term memory. It requires remembering what you saw and heard, and where. I've always loved mind games, and my current favorites are crosswords and Sudoku. I think I'll give this
Dual-N-Back a shot.
Among the suggestions Cole makes in the featured article, my two favorites are reading and learning from mistakes. The others are valuable too. These just happen to especially appeal to me.
It Would be Hard to Overstate the Value of Reading!
Reading is a wonderful way to expand your knowledge, both pure and practical. Informational reading (history, how-to, philosophy, etc.) is, of course, the quickest way to acquire more pure knowledge, as well as some practical application. Good quality fiction helps one see how people apply (or fail to apply) knowledge to life situations. I suppose even light reading (popular novels and the like) is beneficial in this regard. And the simple exercise of improving your reading skills enhances your mental acuity.
Learning from One's Mistakes - A Favorite of mine
People who avoid mistakes don't learn a lot. Mistakes are among the greatest teachers at anyone's disposal. The classic story of Edison's 10,000 failures to produce a serviceable electric light bulb, before he succeeded, provides a great example of the value of mistakes. If he'd stopped making mistakes before he found the solution, maybe we's still be in the dark! Many mistake-fearers do very little - those who do little make few mistakes.
People who try to avoid mistakes mostly fall into two categories:
- They do very little - this avoids mistakes. It also avoids effectiveness.
- They constantly try to prove themselves"right", or prove others "wrong", in the mistaken belief that this makes them somehow appear smarter, or more valuable, or whatever.
The simple truth is that, every time you make a mistake, you learn something! Learning from mistakes is one of the best ways to expand your knowledge and the useful application of it. How does a baby learn to walk or talk or eat with a spoon? By experimenting, and failing, until she learns what works.
And how did we define intelligence?
You can get smarter, even after you've learned to walk, talk and eat with a spoon!
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Do More of What
You Love Doing -
and What
You Get PAID For!
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Do you, or would you like to, improve your intelligence? If you've found other ways than I've suggested above to expand your mind, please share them.
Please let me know if any of
Cole's techniques
, or mine, help...or if they don't.
Would you like to discuss something else? Bring it on! Let's talk about whatever's on your mind.
Do the ideas in any of my messages contribute to making your life and business more enjoyable and effective...or, do you have some reservations about them? I very much look forward to hearing your comments and learning from them. Call me or email me, or schedule a phone call with my pop-up scheduler anywhere on my website. I promise I'll respond.
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Conversations are often necessary to discuss complex ideas. Conversations occur only in real-time, two(or more)-way exchanges; hence my request for your call or the information I need to call you. That way we can have a real conversation about your thoughts. Email and other forms of one-way communication are data transfers, and are very useful for many types of communication. However, they are extremely limited in their ability to convey the ideas, emotions, and inflections that characterize conversations. It's estimated that plain words, which are the total content of an email, convey only about seven percent of the total import of a message. Sure, you can add emoticons, which help marginally, so maybe the percentage becomes 10 or 12 - still very limited. So please call me or tell me how to call you.
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Join me here again next week for more unique ideas on life and business...and
thanks for reading this week's message.
Have a wonderful weekend
, and contact me
to discuss how we can cooperate to add value to what
you
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Be well, my friends. Happy New Year!
John Stevens
Unity Copywriting
Marketing Support for the Business Coaching Industry
Office and cell phone: 814-590-3854 or 603-835-3215
In Argentina: +54(country code) 9 3868 459586
Skype: johnbstevens1943
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About John
Throughout a career spanning over 45 years my management style has been one of building teams to bring several competent people together to focus on a common objective.
As I transition to life in the Argentine outback, my focus will shift to helping other business coaches and advisers get their message out to their prospective clients. With my first-hand knowledge of the benefits of effective business coaching, I am uniquely qualified to work with business advisers of all stripes convey their message.
Contact Info
John B. Stevens, Freelance Copywriter
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