hello everybody my name is Jeffrey Allen Ford I belong to 16 different high IQ societies including Monza Here I am being featured on the cover of the July 2016 months of world journal I also belong to the triple nine society for people's IQs in the 99.9% on above Minds above in a designer last year in Michigan's House of Representatives for winning a global election to become the world genius directories 2016 genius of the year for America today we're going to be talking about 15 genius tips to think clearly there's a battle going on every day
for control over our minds and some people are not fighting fairly art of a today we're going to be talking about why that is and what we can do to win this battle we don't have any time to lose it's that important so let's get started genius took to think clearly number one the independent thought that's not just an action that's our dirty when we were children our parents would tell us how we must behave when we go to school we were taught what we must think if we went to church we were told what
we should believe advertisers tell us how we should spend our money our bosses if we have one tell us what we're supposed to do and lawmakers at the local state national and even global level tell us how we're supposed to live our lives under what rules that's a whole lot of powerful voices to have going through your hubs throughout your life but what about your voice what do you think how do you think you should love your voice matters you need to really just don't let other people's voices live rent-free in your HUD reclaim your
voice get in touch with your voice know help you go a far way in life genius took number two consider the source parents educators religious leaders scientists philosophers lawmakers they all may or may not have your best interests in mind but everyone everyone is prone to error they can make mistakes and spread falsehoods without even knowing it so always question always research and just realize you're responsible for what your ultimate decisions are not the other people around you number three don't compromise yourself away when you work around or live around other people compromises are often
necessary compromising on a price or compromising on which way to put the bathroom tissue on the holder those are compromises that you can make however compromising on your ethics and values changes who you are because once you change those things you start living differently you start becoming someone else and they become habitual keep yourself don't lose yourself don't compromise yourself away number four watch out for the dangers of groupthink large groups of people have accomplished great things in this world they truly have they've launched us into space think about it however large groups of people
can also get together using their best collective minds and they can start movements with the people with the name of a Stalin Mao Pol Pot and Hitler we're people in your own country will be slaughtered in the millions that's what groupthink is capable of it can take us to the highest heights and it can take us to our lowest lows so just because of the majority believes a certain thing does not mean that the majority is right or that they have your best interests in mind so you have an obligation to yourself and really to
to the people around you to to question everything and to think critically don't get wrapped up in movements without really really knowing what that movements all about number five avoid stereotyping stereotyping is wrong on so many levels don't judge anyone they simply on what their race or what their religion is it doesn't tell you everything about that person obviously and know that but are you exactly like everybody else in your race or religion of course not you know you're not like a single other person who's ever lived period so just don't do that it's wrong
take people one at a time and do the mental mass and us if you're intelligent at all you'll be able to figure this out just look at people's an individual just like what you want them to look at us no bucks genuinely listen to people Wow it's unbelievable to me how difficult it is for people to listen you'll be talking to people you think that they got it you know that and then when they start talking you can tell they they didn't hear a word you said because of the mental chatter going on in their
head maybe they assumed that they knew what you're talking about perhaps they were thinking about what they wanted to talk about but regardless so many misunderstandings and errors and hurt feelings can just be avoided if we just listen and there's a matter of fact that's my one step solution to of the whole problem with listening just listen for things in that good accomplishing every day believe me on this number seven remain open to contrary opinions good people can and do disagree on things and it's important to know what's going on in other people's hearts and
in their minds and so when you listen to other people's ideas you at least know where they're coming from and you never know maybe they're right and then you can be thankful for that because you're learning something new but even if they're not right at least you learn that there's another perspective but you can view something from and either what you look at you at least gain something by remaining open know and remember the advertisers this is almost self-explanatory but needs to be said because obviously it works for so many people remember the advertisers they
don't care about you they care about your money I don't care who the celebrity endorser is it's giving a heartfelt deeply heartfelt and well paid for testimonial is they're being paid that's a whole lot different than if your best friend or someone who you love and care about maybe a family member or co-worker if they tell you that you know I had this experience with this product and boy it was fantastic that means something to me okay because it's real-life experience so just realize they don't care about you okay when you're watching television that's not
the only programming going on the television shows the other programming is being done through advertised and it cost so much because it works so well don't let it work on you without critically thinking okay okay the other thing number nine but where of the dunning-kruger effect the dunning-kruger effect is one of the people of lower intellect think there are lot smarter than they are and people with higher intellect they don't view themselves as high as what they actually are on the intellectual scale and this can cause problems from both ends so obviously assess where you're
at and if you need help doing that and everybody probably does get your IQ tested so just engage yourself somehow based on how intelligent you actually are if you need help if you need the advice of other people more than what the average person does got it or let's say you're very high intelligence but yet you don't know anything about something go get other people's help there's no shame and onions us you know so if you have a higher intellect one of the things one of the parts of dunning-kruger effect is that we often assume
that other people have the body of knowledge we do be careful that because a lot of people don't an able talk and talk and pretend like they know what they're talking about and have absolutely no idea at all that can cause us a whole lot of problems so just be aware the dunning-kruger effect and be careful number 10 choose your own labels people just love to label other people and themselves I'm no different I choose my labels very very carefully I'm a father a son a friend a writer a speaker and many other things now
other people might choose to label me quite differently I've noticed that kind of suction and that's okay good people and other people can disagree on different things that's not shocking but don't carry stuff around with you inside don't internalize the labels that you don't want to own okay so choose your labels you define yourself number eleven keep learning new things are being discovered all the time all the time and some of what you've learned in the past may have been wrong for example let's take Pluto I forget about Pluto okay it's a Mickey Mouse planet
to begin with penguin things change be aware that new things are being discovered all the time stay up to date and things that really apply to your life and that will help you make better decisions and to think more clearly number 12 admit what you're wrong and be thankful we I mean by that is we all are prone to mistakes we all are prone to error admit when you're wrong maybe admit it to someone else if you need you but definitely admit it to yourself and when you do admit it to yourself be thankful be
grateful because you've done two things are really important one you've gotten air of your HUD and two you've learned something new so you won't have to go a bed the Sigma cuz you woke up that morning I love these things I celebrate when I find out that it's wrong I don't want to be wrong too often mind you but when I am I own it and that helps me to live a more responsible intelligent life number 13 eat well and sleep well our brains are just another body part and we have to give those things
our body the nutrients and the rest that it needs to develop into function properly do not ignore your cognitive maintenance eat well hydrate and sleep well you'll be glad you did number 14 remember we're also human beings and we're not just a mind we have emotions so number 14 knows remember to feel sometimes that's easy to live too much in our hub and to just be focusing okay this is a smart thing to do but sometimes you really need to take your feelings into account and other people's feelings as well one of the things I'm
very aware of is that mercy and forgiveness are often needed the most but people when they deserve it the least in knowing that where I try to do is if possible I want to bestow forgiveness and mercy on them I do it with when I do it I do that from the heart and they also do that because I believe there is a logical chance that can help them to turn around so use your heart and use your hut when making decisions and number 15 own your own mind sometimes just go off to somewhere that
can be in your home that can be outdoors that can be in a library just somewhere that can be quiet and you can have solitude and be alone with your own thoughts what do you think what do you believe who are you today these are the things that help to make you you I hope that you will follow all of these 15 genius tips to think clearly and I'd like to leave you with one admonition and that is simply be in individual and stay you if you've enjoyed this video I hope you remember to click
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