Over time we will realize the brain loses the capacity to do some tasks with the same efficiency and speed as before. Normally this is due to the owner not implementing it enough which ultimately results in the connections between the neurons to be broken as the brain assumes they aren't needed. In order to reopen these channels of information in the brain, we must work hard at challenging our brain, making it fall back on those neural connections and creating new ones to solve the problems it must deal with. Some ways to do this are listed below.
Practice thinking critically: This advice will not only cause your brain to think further than the obvious truth or fact presented to us, but it will also help you in your day to day by providing you with the necessary defenses against cleverly thought out wording and manipulative conversations. Keep in mind a few things when you encounter a situation in which your intuition tells you there might be something fishy going on.
Firstly, ask many questions. Asking questions will require the claimant of a fact to rethink what has been said to reply in a coherent manner. Many people are caught off guard by unusual and thorough questions. Make sure to know the ins and outs of a topic before accepting the claims about it to be true. It will also force you to understand completely and to find incongruities in what is being said.
Secondly, solve problems systematically. In some situations you will have a problem that has no obvious solution. In this case it is good practice to make two lists. The first will have written down all the details you know about the problem. The second will have all the possible solutions you can come up with. The process then is simple. Go through each of the solutions one by one and compare them against the first list to check if that solution is viable or not. You can also do this in reverse order, making the solutions list first, and then the details list.
Lastly, be skeptical. Do not accept whatever you hear directly without questioning. Even things that are most likely true or sound pretty probable/reasonable should be questioned before being accepted. To put it simple, repeat the first step of questioning as often as you can get away with.
Mind to paper: Try your hand at drawing often. It is not necessary to sketch realistic landscapes and portraits. The aim of this exercise is to express your feelings, thoughts and emotions onto the page. It doesn't even have to make sense or be interpreted by anyone else. It is just for your mind to search in its depths for adequate representations of what you are intending to express.
Think positively: We get what we wish for. This saying is true in the sense that if we think of what we desire in a positive light, our subconscious will cause us to act in manners according to us achieving our goal. It is important that we avoid thinking in negative terms like "I don't want this to happen" but rather "I see myself achieving this".
I hope this information helps you to get started in becoming as smart and quick witted as you hope.
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