How can I be more intelligent?
How can I be more intelligent?
- Read books, and read a lot.
- Use filtered news services.
- Hang out with smart people.
- Aim to do something new every day.
- Play board games (e.g., Scrabble, chess, or Battleship).
- Make a list of the things you’ve done.
- Learn a new language.
- Explain what you know to others.
What are some intellectual books to read?
Intellectual Books
- An Ishmael of Syria (Paperback) Asaad Almohammad.
- An Ishmael of Syria (Paperback)
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
- Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
- A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
- 1984 (Kindle Edition)
- The Alchemist (Paperback)
What makes a good book on linguistics?
By a good book I mean a book that is: (a) informative, logically sound and technically accurate, and (b) accessible to a layman with no background in linguistics, just what one would know from school classes on the English grammar, foreign languages etc. It turned out to be extremely hard to find such books.
What are the best children’s books with good language features?
The following two books are a taste of how these language features can be used well: The Charlie and Lola series by Lauren Child is a great example of good word choice, presentation and repetition. These are imaginative, slightly ridiculously silly stories, that echo everyday real life “adventures” with a child.
Do the smartest people in the world own books they don’t read?
This is why the smartest people in the world own tons of books they don’t read. If you love to read as much as I do, walking into a bookstore as an adult feels exactly like walking into a candy store as a kid. The shelves are lined with the wisdom of humanity, insights that each author has spent years refining.
Why is linguistics so hard to learn?
And most people, by that point, are like, ‘I’m bored.’ That’s another reason why people find linguistics intimidating sometimes, because it has that abstractness to it. Abstractness also leads to technical terminology, which is impenetrable jargon to people who don’t know it.
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