A Break from Trading: How to Raise Your I.Q.

Yes, you can increase your intelligence, due to new research. Significant increases are possible, more than 

40 I.Q. points...I was actually surprised when I was reviewing the findings. These methods are straightforward and repeatable by anyone with no specialized training or equipment. Lets get right to it.

N-Back Training
In 2009 the Wall Street Journal ran a story about a software program that will raise your IQ 2.75 points every hour that you train with this computer program. Its called N-back training, which is a program that presents you with a screen like this:

What then happens is that the 8 grids shown above on the screen start lighting up with a box that is colored and a number is spoken.You have to remember previous patterns and spoken sequences. As your "N" back number is repeated with a longer stretch between when you observed the previous sequence to the time that it is asking you for that back information, your brain rewires itself and becomes more plastic and open to increases in fluid intelligence due to this rewiring. Apparently the effect of fluid intellegence increases keep going even when you take a few months off from training. Also your brain will rework itself and optimize, sleeping more efficiently with greater periods of REM sleep. Pretty amazing. Like SERIOUSLY amazing. It used to be believed that the human brains intelligence for each person was determined by the time the child was 4-5 years old as the brain became fully developed with its individual connections finalized.
Now we find out that depending on how hard you train, you can get close to a 3 IQ point increase PER HOUR of training. Anyone that was serious about this could Einstein himself out after a serious month of work. Simply type in N back training software into Google to get some good training sites online.

Underwater Training
 Holding your breath underwater expands the Carotid Arteries that supply the brain. When you hold your breath underwater while swimming causes carbon di oxide to build up in the bloodstream which expands
Carotid Arteries. Doctors are aware of this, every medical doctor has to memorize the Carotid expansion trait while going through medical school. Not only this, but the effects are permanent, and while also supplying more blood, also clears away toxins and enables more cerebral fluid to circulate.
The above effect is greatly increased by swimming underwater, called the Mammalian Diving Response.
Basically, when a person is diving underwater, (the bottom of the pool is better, more pressure) more circulation is forced into the brain and other internal organs which exaggerates the effect from number 1 above.

This is how you do it: Accumulate 20 hours of breath held underwater time at 1-3 minutes per swim underwater within three weeks from start to finish.
You will achieve: a 10 point or more IQ gain; better attention and awareness.

The above information if acted upon can make a HUGE difference in your life. You will be able to better positively interact with others, see relationships between different things, items and persons and have the ability to infer more information and structure it in order to get an edge on life that you didn't have before. Being smarter is always better, you will be more self aware of yourself, others, and the environment around you and be able to use almost anything in order to help you navigate through life. Imagine the difference between having say a 120 IQ then after 6 months of work having a 160 IQ. Want to see the difference having a sudden big IQ would have in your life, (even though exaggerated) see the Bradley Cooper movie "Limitless". Its about a standard Joe Schmoe who is struggling to write the Great American Novel and lives in a crappy little apartment and has trouble relating to people and trouble finding ways to make money. Enter a special pill developed by a pharmaceutical company: Instant several hundred IQ point raise. Suddenly his life totally changes....he finds out how to make money from the stock market, how to deal with people, and run with a jet set crowd. While the above methods will instead give you a 30-40 point raise, that is significant and will allow you to achieve new heights in your life.