Spend 90% of my time watching videos and podcasts of intelligent thinkers like Sam Harris...

thanks user, I'll read all these books, then I can finally intellectually annihilate my mental inferiors

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>Sam harris?????
>Jordan peterson???

Ohno nono no nolook at the size of his brain

Not OP, just wanted to say thanks for the resources

reading scholarly books and works, especially theoretical ones, is a HUGE waste of time. Unless you enjoy it, don't do it. You'll end up with an insane amount of useless knowledge that you will never benefit you anywhere except on Jow Forums when some other loser brings it up.

laugh it up now you brainlets...

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you could spend the other 10% shilling this petition

watching videos is passive. only active methods help you improve anything. spend 40% reading 60% writing

you will never be smart you impressionable retard

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>wants to be smart
>only listens to one particular group of people
intelligence is a web, not a path

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of these only sam harris is smart and he isn't even impressive
giving social commentary doesn't make you smart
JP is a philosophy bab and stephan has a bachelor of arts (history) - anyone can get a bachelor in history from some shitty uni

it's a fucking joke people listen to these two and think they're smart
that's so garbage
just read some math, philosophy is bullshit

you either are smart or not, sorry, you can't fill the gaps in your parents' intelligence by reading philosophy

you are who you are

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well, he's set himself down a kind of political philsophical path so thats what im going to recommend. if he gets it he gets it, if he doesnt he doesnt.

you cant understand how the world works unless you understand math, because math is the basis of science. why do people read philosophy anyway

heres a list of books that made me smart

on the genealogy of morality - nietzche

story of the eye - georges bataille

the accursed share - georges bataille

Nigel Warburton - Philosophy: The Basics

Bertrand Russell - Problems of Philosophy

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus

Rene Descartes - Meditations

Plato - Early Dialogues / Five Dialogues / The Last Days of Socrates

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism

David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Platos Republic

the tractatus

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

humiliated and insulted

the conspiracy against the human race

fear and trembling repetition kirkegaard

the fall into time

the decline of the west - oswald sprengler

the strangler - albert camus

>still feel like a low IQ brainlet
well you watch Jordan Peterson

>He was in the top floor of the University Library, about A.D. 2100. A library assistant was going round the shelves carrying an enormous bucket, taking down books, glancing at them, restoring them to the shelves or dumping them into the bucket. At last he came to three large volumes which Russell could recognize as the last surviving copy of Principia Mathematica. He took down one of the volumes, turned over a few pages, seemed puzzled for a moment by the curious symbolism, closed the volume, balanced it in his hand and hesitated...
Turtles all the way down user, imagine spending 10 years with Principia Mathematica, but in one fell swoop some 20something autist diagonalises it away.

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My online surrogate father figure is better than yours, so take that.
youtube.com/watch?v=oBcWxnNXboA

Wew there's some bad advice in here.

Just lol at all the people suggesting any of the guys mentioned in the OP aren't smart. They are quite clearly intelligent people.

However it is important to recognise that they are still human. They are still capable of being wrong, they are still susceptible to cognitive biases...etc. Nobody is excluded from this, no matter how intelligent or knowledgeable they are.

Don't discount listening to someone just because of this. It is always good to hear and consider other viewpoints and arguments. You absolutely do not want to limit yourself in this regard. Continue listening to a wide range of viewpoints from different people. This is definitely a good idea.

Problems only arise when you blindly follow the viewpoints of others and hang on to their every word as if it is utterly infallible truth. As I mentioned it is important to remember that as smart as they may appear, they are still only human.

Some other advice I will give that hasn't been mentioned here. If you legitimately want to maximise your intelligence, you need to take a multifaceted approach. Reading, listening, thinking are all good. But you have to remember what you are. You're a living organism, a biological machine. If you really want to maximise your potential you need to consider your health and wellbeing in this regard.

Get a good amount of sleep, eat a healthy diet, live a healthy lifestyle, reduce stress and work on any mental health problems you have.

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>intelligent thinkers like Sam Harris, Stephen Molyneux and Jordan Peterson

OH NO NO NO NO

In all seriousness, there is next to no value in listening to other thinkers. If you actually want to be smart, you have to think things out for yourself. If you can't do that, you really are a brainlet, but at least you're in the same category as most pseuds and the rest of humanity.

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I know that feel bro . brainlet forever i guess

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Unironically watch Gregory Sadler videos on YouTube. He breaks down philosophical ideas of Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Augustine, Plato, Rand, etc. all in easy to understand 10 minute videos.

Learning is basically experiencing things. Go out and experience shit u fag.

I laffed
8/10

take the objectivism pill
youtube.com/watch?v=z3_Kzg8qsGE

Intelligence is mostly genetic. It has the same correlation to your genes as much as your height does. You cannot become intelligent. You are genetically intelligent, or you are not.

Even if these podcasts are hosted by intelligent people and such then you'll only gain knowledge from watching them, your logical abilities and such won't improve, unless you partake in activities which do improve things like that, like visual memory tests, playing chess, and logical sequence/ pattern solving.

>Strauss believed it was for politicians to assert powerful and inspiring myths that everyone could believe in. They might not be true, but they were necessary illusions. One of these was religion; the other was the myth of the nation.
(You) are like fact/value positivism yet without afore 20th century cache, no one bites when something does not justify itself beyond epistemic...
neither do most forks after Leibniz and I guess we are back to "sit down and calculate".

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By not coming up with shit on your own you are training your brain to learn to get answers from other people. Your brain makes new connections inside when it comes up with things. That's why people that create can continue that create, and people that steal an idea can only continue to steal ideas.