NPT Issue #3: Genius & Easily Raising Your IQ by Jeffery Ford, A YouTube Video Summary
I came across Jeffrey's YouTube (YT) video on X while scrolling X before I started doing some chores. I played his video in the background when I started washing the dishes and listened to it all the way through. His tips actually seem tangible and accessible. They are quite solid and I wanted to share them for that reason.
Someone in the comment section of his YouTube Video was kind enough to include a summary of the video which does it justice. The YT user's handle is @slushyslushy7777. I want to give credit where credit is due as I am just copy-pasting their summary here and that's the blog post. Watching the video is up to you. I say it's well worth the watch if even just for Jeffery's personality and refreshing communication style. It feels so naturally, like I'm having a conversation with him but I'm not saying anything. As if I'm listening to him.
X Link: https://x.com/theJayAlto/status/1882868980525957435
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpIhPIiVtOo
Summary of Jefferey Ford's Video
- How to listen correctly:
- Accept that words mean what they mean
- Accept what's being conveyed with you
- Don't listen waiting to speak; be active
- Ask questions
- Don't judge what people are saying why they are saying it to you (Don't judge so quick)
- Take notes
- How to read intelligently:
- Consider the source of everything (age, environment, era of college attendance, place of birth, gender, who, date)
- Attention Span Building (Working Memory):
- Learn to be comfortable in your own company and in silence
- Create a nice environment
- Have have special interest(passion) where you can incrementally shift that passion to other things
- Diet: know your body, e.g., sugar, caffeine, alcohol, heavy meals and how you respond to all of them to hack your body to boost your productivity and overclock temporarily
- Developing proper mental syntax for higher thought:
- Really really good grammar
- Increase your vocabulary
- Music (Classical, Jazz)
- Math (structure, systems, patterns)
- Creating a strong intellectual environment:
- Quiet
- Still
- Peace
- Encourage daydreams
- Miscellaneous
- Pool intellectual resources (other people know things you don't and vice versa so socialize and trade like playing card trading games)
- Think for yourself
- Surround yourself with great books (written by people who you want to emulate logically or emotionally)
- Other things that aren't in music
Bonus Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Xu3qLI3r0