Entertaining Your Brain?

Spencer Wilson asks: "I'm constantly told that I have an extremely high intelligence. I always feel like I should know so much more, though. Do you, the Slashdot readers, know of any ways to improve ones brain power? Perhaps books, Web sites, etc., that provide questions that involve ways to increase memory, creativity, mental agility, logic reasoning, intelligence, etc. Are there any diets/exercises that really help?"

Drinking

[SuDZ]

Drinking, lots of drinking.

SuDZ

The *most* effective means...

[FFFish]

...is to hang out on Slashdot, of course. Especially at the -1 filter level. My goodness, this place positively drips with intelligence. All the smart kids hang out here.

[rolls eyes]

Re:Drinking

[Directrix1]

Judging by the number of questions this guy asks. He doesn't know half the sh!t which he should for that much intelligence boasting. :-P

Hmmmm

[Sevn]

'm constantly told that I have an extremely high intelligence

Quit hanging out with your mom.

Me too.

[SuDZ]

"I'm constantly told that I have an extremely high intelligence.

Yeah, I only hang around with dumb people that make me look smart too.

SuDZ

Re:Drinking

[spacecowboy420]

You know, I believe you are right. I read somewhere that alcohol kills brains cells - but which ones? Well, the weakest ones of course - thinning the herd as it were. So it stands to reason that if you were to drink enough [not too much, don't want to kill them all - just the shiftless or sick ones] you would have an optimised brain with only the more robust brain cells processing, thus a more efficient mind.

Re:Whoever told you that

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, speaking as someone with an IQ in the highgenius range: the first thing you have to learn is how NOT to walk around telling everyone how frelling smart you are.

Agh.

Let me guess ...

[bmomjian]

Let me guess --- you are not constantly told how humble you are.

YES

[illuminatedwax]

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Re:Intelligence and Knowledge are Not the Same Thi

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, who are you to challenge the submitter? He is constantly being told that has an extremely high IQ. How many times have *you* been told that?

Re:Whoever told you that

[GCP]

Yeah, yeah, my mind is so extra...superfab...[doh!]...darn-diddly quick that it has already moved on to solving some theoretical physics problems, leaving my drooling moron of a body behind to finish posting on Slashdot with the rest of you geniuses....

I'm constantly told that I have an extremely high

[floydman]

Then may i ask what brings you here?

Re:Drinking

[RevAaron]

Actually, this may be marked as funny, but there is a kernel of truth to this. A big one, even. Ready to be POPPED!

Like the tokin' spacecowboy tells us, alcohol kills brain cells, killing the weakest ones. Everyone knows this. Everyone also knows that the average human only ever uses 10% of her potential brain power, with the exceptional folks only using a few percentage points more.

When you drink, you are indeed culling the bad, thinning the herd. And as a result, you're giving yourself the chance to use only the best of the best of your brain cells. If you're only going to use 10% of your grey matter, why the hell use all of the average stuff? Why not weed it out, with only the cream of the crop left over for your computational needs?

Intelligence and the TV

[rufus0815]

I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness", but it doesn't seem to work.
-- Gallagher

Found in the Linux Fortunes DB ;-)

Re:Drinking

[(trb001)]

Ahem...

One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm. Here's how it went:

"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."

Re:Just about anything except television.

[AllUsernamesAreGone]

I guess it depends. It'd proably be useful if I could summon tentacled horrors to attack the most clueless users in work...