Whether you are trying to survive an intensive schedule or just want to seem smarter in front of your friends, you can do a lot of things to both look and be smarter.

In his article “Top 10 Ways to Make Yourself Look (and Be) Smarter” published on lifehacker.com, Whitson Gordon, senior editor of lifehacker blog, provides ten simple tricks for boosting your real (and perceived) brain power:

  1. Read faster and better
  2. Speak up
  3. Don’t fall prey to BS
  4. Focus on what you know
  5. Get some exercise
  6. Talk to yourself
  7. Learn a second language
  8. Do things the hard way
  9. Know what won’t make you smarter
  10. Just believe you can be smarter

You can read more at: http://goo.gl/6TFL0

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