TL;DR - It took me about 14 days to increase my IQ by 13 points, in a controlled experiment that involved no learning, it was a relatively pleasant process, more people should be doing this.

A common cliche in many circles is that you can’t increase IQ.

This is obviously false, the largest well-documented increase in IQ using nothing but training is one of 23 points.

A Standard Deviation of IQ

Alas it is a myth that persists, and when pushed on it people will say something like:

You can’t easily increase IQ in a smart and perfectly healthy adult permanently.

FINE — I’m a smart and perfectly healthy adult, I tested my IQ with 4 different tests: FSIQ, the public MENSA test, Raven's progressive matrices, and Raven's advanced progressive matrices.

Then I threw the kitchen sink at the problem, and went [...]

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Outline:

(00:32) A Standard Deviation of IQ

(02:21) The Flowers for Algernon

(06:02) Why isn’t anyone doing this?

(08:00) Conclusion

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https://epistemink.substack.com/p/increasing-iq-is-trivial

Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.