Most people believe that your intelligence is inherent—if you were born a smart person, then you will forever be a smart person.
But this kind of thinking holds people back, as it serves as an excuse for people not to improve themselves intellectually.
In the nature versus nurture debate, the dangerous thing with the nature side of the argument is that it makes us believe that we can’t change who we are.
But Scientific American has suggested that you can increase your fluid intelligence, or your capacity to learn new information, retain it, then use that new knowledge practically.
Through certain hobbies and techniques, we can spark our brain into building new neural pathways, allowing it to work at a faster, retain more information and at a higher level.
This video shows 7 hobbies that science says could make you smarter.
