What books should I read to become smarter?

Trout fishing is superior to politics and science.

I find most people don't know much but rather just find what fits their political views and repeat that. It's probably worse in America (I'm Swedish).

>science/tech is the last thing
>no lit
tech isn’t reading, you’re either mechanically inclined or you’re not. studying formal maths and logic will help a bit. reading difficult lit, philosophy, writing constantly. you’re probably ~19 so its almost impossible to boost your iq more than 5 points. the window of opp is between 4-16 years old and you have to bombard the person with intellectual stimulus, constantly training their brains to make new connections, agility really slows down by late teens. you’re as smart as you’ll ever be at 21

Just read man, there is no book to magically make you smart, or catch up to other's knowledge in a small amount of time.
If you wanna know about anything, just fucking study it, start with some arcticles, make research, try to question things by yourself, people only get smarter if they are motivated to understand something.
Just get out of here and get a book to read.

>Why not pick an extremely specialized topic within politics or science?
Without a background in the general nature of the field of study, you will be revealed as a fraud.

I generally agree with this. Well written, easy to read fiction is a great tool for achieving rapid submersion in a topic. I found "Stealing the Network" to be a tremendous help in my re-introduction to technology after a hiatus. Similar works surely exist for the fields in question.

I suppose. My main interest has been WW2 history, that's what I mostly read about but I just want to expand into other topics. I just need a good place to start because when I dive into books and articles about new topics, I'm overwhelmed by all the terminology and shit.

For medicine and anthropology. Published by FSG.

To learn why communism will never work.

>My main interest has been WW2 history.
Any good study of WW2 starts with the causes of WW1. WW2 is only an echo of WW1 and cannot be understood without context - unless, of course, your only interest is in the mainstream propaganda that is still being foisted.

>communism will never work
Communism is responsible for the slaughter of untold millions of innocents. It is a tremendous success at achieving what it was designed to do.

Start with the Greeks and simultaneously start with University Physics by Young and Freedman.

Iq isnt crystallized until at least 25

This is so wrong it makes me want to break my hand on my countertop, fluid intelligence starts waning between 21-23, crystalline intelligence which nogs, gorillas and women can have plenty of peaks in your 30’s. Executive functioning, the ability to decide to search things before you post them on image boards for instance, finishes developing around 25 allegedely. Though its likely many people’s faculty of executive decision making, conscientiousness has generationally atrophied to such an extent that it can’t really be determined where it takes shape ontogenetically. Either way you’re wrong and engaging in a pathetic cope. Intelligence is 80% genetic influence by 21 years old. This is why teenage refugees and nogs from africa shouldn’t be given aid or education and why feeling bad for stupid people in their teens is so grotesque morally. Just totally misunderstanding the nature of Mind. The developmental period between 3-16 years old is absolutely critical for correcting bad behavior patterns, supplementing low stock genetics. Sorry user, all those blacks and stupid whyte teens will never be anything more than apes waiting to die ignominious deaths.

that won't teach him how to fish

Where are you pulling any of those figures from?

BRO JUST BECOME SMARTER XD

From a book of fictional camp stories?

> get subscription to economist
> google books about " insert topic" (economic approach to law, labor rights movement, war on drugs, military psychology, education reform, social justice reform, ect)
> read books
> talk to people
> get out of your echo chamber

>Economist
pls no

Daily reminder that historicism is brain cancer.

Ernest is that you

Intelligence is not what your seeking. You want social clout as being seen as a intellectual, which you're not. Focus on the things that make you happy and stop worrying about how others perceive of you. Its fine to be ignorant -- in fact ignorance grants you more social respect if you are humble about said ignorance.

Books should just be a source of entertainment. I enjoy philosophy so i read it because it interests me. Not because i seek social gratification from knowing about a specific topic.

Hust have fun -- read books, smoke weed, play video games, get your dick sucked, and eat good food. Life is too damn short to sit around worrying about what a group of future worm food thinks about you.

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you can't become smarter

"The Trivium" by Sister Miriam Joseph. Learn how to think and learn first, it all begins with the Trivium.

Pretty much this without the live laugh love bullshit
Just pick what actually interests you

You can become more knowledgeable.

I think that's what he's referring to.

And also to add on to this, you can start thinking about the world differently depending on what you read.

This could lead to thinking about the world in more intelligent/better ways.

In order to avoid being a total brainlet on social issues, best start with economic theory. Read Smith and some intro to classical econ, continue with the major works of Marx, Engels and Lenin, then go for some neoclassical shit like Alfred Marshall coupled with a modern university textbook, finish off with keynesians. At this point you'll know enough about your political position to read further.

Reading doesn't make you smarter. Read Schopenhaur's essays to find out why