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The Macro View
The 80th-floor intelligence is like improving your “bird’s eye view” skills. First, you have to learn how to learn deeper and broader to accumulate experience and better knowledge.
You can only make better connections if you already have the right knowledge. So to improve your intelligence, gather more insight from great sources, choose your knowledge sources wisely, learn from people more intelligent than you, and read books you are willing to reread repeatedly.
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Defining Intelligence
- Intelligence is often thought of in terms of logic, thinking, and information processing.
- Intelligence is one of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal. It can help you get a career in almost any field and make it your sp...
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Intelligence Defined By Great Business Leaders
Jeff Bezos says improve your ability to change your mind when you find better knowledge.
Elon Musk says, “It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree.”
According to Steve Jobs, A lot of [what it...
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The Thinking Lens
- Improving your intelligence is about stacking experience and applying lessons from good sources. You can only zoom out if you know what you are looking at. It’s hard, but it’s worth it.
- Openness to wide and deep experiences outside your comfort zone will change your life. It will als...
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Spotting The Patterns
Your ability to spot better life and career patterns, make more brilliant connections and predict good outcomes depend on your ability to pause, zoom out and visualize the bigger picture.
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To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else
LEONARDO DA VINCI
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High Intelligence
- The ability to learn and retain new information is the ultimate sign of high intelligence.
- Peak intelligence occurs when a person’s mental abilities are at their highest, and they can produce the best results possible.
- High intelligence is a skill, but it’s rare.
- Hig...
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The magical "intuition" for hard subjects we notice in people like Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman is owed to their extensive knowledge base they could draw from.
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The Expert
Experts strive for more—more knowledge, more experience, and more awards. Experts strive to be perfect because they want to please others. They feel like an impostor because there’s always someone better out there.
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