From the time we were very young to the time we get to be adults we have always possessed the need to make people think we are smart.
In class if you answer a question and you get it right, you have a feeling of greatness that may take you throughout the day.
Scientists have proven that there are varieties IQ boosting exercises that you can do to boost your intelligence.
Some of these include:
Practicing new skills
When you get the basics of a new skill, it highly boosts your mental ability by enabling you to remember the skill every time you repeat it.
Once you get the basics of one skill, you can move to another.
This exercise helps in boosting your memory levels; hence it is very hard to forget something you learn.
Teaching
Once some basic skills have been acquired, it is very advisable that you teach it to someone else. This will make the skill be permanent in your brain proving very difficult to forget for very many years as you repeat if frequently through teaching.
Having debates
You should discuss issues with friends and avoid making it an argument. This will open your mind to new ideas and will enhance critical thinking because you have different ideas that make you view things from different angles.
Hobbies
Have a wide variety of hobbies that you engage in. this will make your mind always engaged and in a position to think fast since the muscles are regularly exercised. The hobbies you take should be very different from each other in order to ensure your brain is involved in different capacities.
Reading frequently
The suggested frequency should be one book each week. This improves your speed in reading and has a consequential increase in your intelligence level.
The bottom line of all these IQ boosting exercises is that you ensure all muscles in your brain are being worked on and not just one or two.
It is therefore advisable that you do all of them instead of sticking to just one.