You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential, Andrea Kuszewski, Scientific American (March 7, 2011)

The phrase that I wrote as a title is memorable in the above article.

Long , but not too long in my mind, story is about the intelligence, which is regarded as a connate ability. The author organized five elements below to gain the increased intelligence and/or cognitive ability.

• Seek Novelty
• Challenge Yourself
• Think Creatively
• Do things The Hard Way
• Network

More details, please read this article. Long, but not too long 😉

Most of all, it enticed me with “Efficiency is not your friend …”, being used as a title of this post. I always consider the efficiency when working and living. Using the shortest path to drive to a destination, scheduling my day work in hours, and so on. Because, I want to reduce my wasting, which I generally think about, time to do something else, such as studying, reading, or developing something for the future. But, in reality, I became lazy when I used the remnant time to sleep or playing, which doesn’t mean those are bad, after I had adapted my efficient life ironically.

I think the efficiency for my output is important and more valuable. For my life, however, it makes me lazy. I should evade for me and my family.