>>13410007I don't know about literally raising your IQ, but "demonstrating your IQ" or operating at full capacity is an easier thing to talk about. Unfortunately, a lot of it is boring and obvious stuff, generally health advice, etc.
Sleep well and enough (just enough, over can be as a bad as under).
Hydrate.
Stay calm.
Have a good diet (don't be deficient in key nutrients).
Get some glucose/sucrose (fruit, honey, whatever floats your boat).
Do some cardio (lifting is good but I'm not sure it's going to have an impact beyond the hormone response, so do some jump rope or running or swimming or whatever).
Equally trite, less "health" related things:
Use stimmies.
Avoid depressants.
Pick up new and significantly different hobbies/habits (proof-based math, a distant language, a very manual craft, etc.)
Improve your ability to focus (this alone will put you beyond many retards, you know this to be true -- 4chan is probably full of +2ish stddev individuals who just cannot focus and have never had to, so fail to challenge themselves and fail to realize any potential).
Escape status games, or rather, pick your own status games. Look at academics: many bright people, but some of them really do not have any deep love of research but rather love the aesthetic of "being intellectual." Something similar happens with code monkeys and the concept of "being a founder." I wish I could find the study, and if I do I will reply to myself, but a study of very high IQ individuals (I think it was a 160+ IQ subset of the Terman study, or something like that, measurement errors be damned) had some interesting things to report about career choice: for instance, there was a vintner and a lemon farmer among the cohort. Bottom line is don't assume that you will achieve maximum stimulus by following the most obvious paths (though of course there were a number of mathematicians and lawyers in the cohort as well).
