The 4 Smartest Ways to Become Smarter

Build intelligence on autopilot with a few tweaks to your day

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The fastest way to become smarter is to make learning a habit.

This may sound obvious, but it’s not about maximizing the time you spend sitting at a desk, working or studying. It’s about finding ways to integrate learning seamlessly into your day.

A quick Google search right when you bump into a word you don’t know beats your plan to read The Intelligent Investor in one sitting — because 50 searches a day add up while, most of the time, the reading never happens.

We’re all busy. We have work and to-do’s and societal obligations. If we ignore everyday life, we’ll never make a big enough commitment to learning. Instead, we must acknowledge it. Work with it. Big, deliberate study sessions are a great second step, but if we try to make them the first, we’ll likely spend our lives feeling like perpetual failures.

Your goal should be to live your everyday life while learning naturally permeates your entire day — like an undercurrent of water that keeps carrying your mind to higher heights without you feeling each bump along the way.

Here are four tiny habits to make learning feel as natural as breathing. They might not seem like much, but that’s exactly why…