Becoming more intelligent

There isn't a "how to." Also, I can understand your desire to contribute information to the conversation, but I'd suggest that if you don't know about something, give the person the opportunity to teach you, lots of people enjoy being able to explain stuff. If I meet someone who is really "in to" something I'm pretty familiar with, I'll often pretend to know LESS than I do, so they get to display their expertise.

Now in the case that you DO know all about something, but can't bring yourself to speak in your own words because you're afraid of sounding dumb, your greatest enemy is yourself. Nobody can "sound smart," just speak normally.

you have wrong expectations user, you clearly want validation from other people/groups. Look at your example, you want to be a part of a group ("Jow Forums" in this case), so you adapt yourself to said group and literally take over their viewpoints. You have to realize that your means (becoming "intelligent") shouldn't be your goal. Try to somehow gain confidence like the other anons suggested. Look deeply into stuff you like and try to form your own opinions

Read. Like books, not Jow Forums.

First step is to write with proper punctuation. Bad spelling makes you look dumber.
Second, read a lot.

Read more. Even (good) fiction will help. Sounding smart is more about being able to string words together eloquently than actually knowing what you're talking about.

It amazes me that all these smart people are so fucking insecure. Fuck all of you.

Reading will certainly help. You'd have to develop strong critical thinking skills to really be smart, though.

In all honesty, if you're trying to sound smart, you're going to fail. Also, who cares if you don't sound smart? I'd rather speak to someone and understand what they're talking about than have to decode their words. Plus, that shit reeks of pretentiousness.

Yes, I do. When they say the average IQ is 100, and then give charts like the attached one, it's not the case that there is a single person who is 100, and then everyone else falls to one side of the line or another. The majority of people sit comfortable at 100, or near enough to be so.

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What? The fuck are you on about? There's tons of shit to be insecure about. Just checking off one box doesn't mean they should all be happy now.

I'm smart enough to know what scares me and not brave enough to face it.

bump cause i have the same issue

It's useless being intelligent. Be smart, not intelligent.
Also, be wise.
If you live your life a lot you must got stories to tell. It doesn't matter how trivial. It can be hobby or anything.
Read more, know more.

You don't want to become smart at all. What you're looking for is charisma, an ability of sounding interesting at whatever topic you talk about. I know really intelligent people who don't seem interesting at first glance because one of the first marks of being smart is that you don't talk about things with certainty, because they understand they don't know even the half of it.

I also know dumb people who can keep you entertained even if they don't know the topic deeply (and if they got to talk with an expert on the topic, the expert would realize in a heartbeat they're just faking it). It's because they are confident and most people don't want to autistically know more than the surface of any given subject.

Basically you want the same thing incels want, social skills. It's hard to learn it as an adult though.

I wonder how people learn growing up? Do they have to actively learn it

I'm in the same boat man, I feel like I didn't used to be like this and I have no idea how this happened. I've done a ton of research on this and I think it really does come down to a confidence/self-esteem issue. I've been working on this a lot, and I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one. Do you ever get that feeling of just not being able to like even think or talk with anyone, even close friends/family? I do and that's the worst part, feeling like I can't be genuine since I don't even know who that is, and feeling like I am just an echo chamber and joke machine. How old are you if you don't mind me asking? Any life changes recently? Trying to tell if there are any other commonalities between us.

No one learn how becoming an adult because no one knows how.
It's something that appears after you change gradually by improving yourself as indirect result.
In the same boat also.
My mind is a maze and I keep people out of it. I know I need to let them in but I'm scared to do so.
Put it bluntly it's like..if I meet my doppelganger I wouldn't even tell my secrets. That kind of thing.

read a book read a book read a motherfuckin book

Start with using capital letters.

One simple thing - don't be naive.

Lik This?

People Grow Up By Stop Playing Video Games

~47% are below 100.
iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx

You’re looking for the WIS stat, not INT.

If you are young, that will pass as you experience more. If you are older practice. Keep in mind only correct practice improves. There are many types of intelligence. The one which you are referring to involves interpreting yourself and the audiance, and the object of said conversation.

Ask yourself, what do I want to talk about, and what do they want to talk about? Proceed with probing questions.

What it sound like you want is feeling like you matter or that you are not inferior. However; looking to others and measuring with them will only cause distortion of your understanding of oneself. You must know yourself before you can hope to have a voice. You also may or may not already cultivated your opinions but don't have words for the abstract feeling that you feel. In this case, write down those things, look at them later, and put those memories into perspective.

In short, know yourself, know others,and be able to say it. Start one on one with someone who makes you comfortable but also has a developed mind and personality. Ask for Input. If social anxiety is the issue, perspective is key, and a good authority figure can demonstrate that to you. After that talk to a close friend or friends to where they know you. Finally, meet new people and Express yourself; take your friends who know you so that they can draw opinions and feelings you want known out to people.

Finally, if you still can't find validation, learn logic as much as you can rather than what appears to those without logic to be logic.

"He sounds so smart! Everything he says ends up being true!" They will exclaim.

There's two things that really helped me develop in this way.
The first was doing a ton of reading over my life and getting a very good grasp of english vocabulary and syntax.
This has already been pointed out in the thread, but in addition I suggest you read things you enjoy, it makes it easier to consume a lot of writing in a short time.

The second, and this may seem counter intuitive, was developing a generic sense of self confidence.
Counter intuitive because you're seeking to expose your perceived inadequacy rather than going away and working on it.
What I find looking back is, before I made a lot of lifestyle changes that gave me confidence, I would brutally self censor in order to avoid exposing opinions I had no confidence supporting, which amounted to avoiding discussions.
And it's not really possible to improve at activities you avoid.