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

  1. How to listen correctly: 
    1. Accept that words mean what they mean
    2. Accept what's being conveyed with you 
    3. Don't listen waiting to speak; be active
    4. Ask questions
    5. Don't judge what people are saying why they are saying it to you (Don't judge so quick)
    6. Take notes
  2. How to read intelligently:
    1. Consider the source of everything (age, environment, era of college attendance, place of birth, gender, who, date)
  3. Attention Span Building (Working Memory):
    1. Learn to be comfortable in your own company and in silence
    2. Create a nice environment 
    3. Have have special interest(passion) where you can incrementally shift that passion to other things
    4. 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
  4. Developing proper mental syntax for higher thought: 
    1. Really really good grammar
    2. Increase your vocabulary
    3. Music (Classical, Jazz)
    4. Math (structure, systems, patterns)
  5. Creating a strong intellectual environment:
    1. Quiet 
    2. Still 
    3. Peace
    4. Encourage daydreams
  6. Miscellaneous
    1. Pool intellectual resources (other people know things you don't and vice versa so socialize and trade like playing card trading games)
    2. Think for yourself 
    3. Surround yourself with great books (written by people who you want to emulate logically or emotionally)
    4. Other things that aren't in music