10/10 Hobbies to Become Smart Again (niche edition #2)

10/10 Hobbies to Become Smart Again (niche edition #2) 10 out of 10 hobbies to become smart again, but they get progressively more niche Do the New York Times mini crossword every morning Create before you consume Write something, draw something or make something before you take anything in It doesn't have to be good, and that's the point Stop reading new books and reread the classics again and again learn to identify trees, bark, leaves and silhouette Play GeoGuessr to train your geography It drops you anywhere on Earth and you work out where, from the road side of the road cars drive on It's actual geography learned by accident girls night idea make PowerPoints to show your friends what you actually do all day at work Learn something and make a PowerPoint Then, host a PowerPoint night Everybody presents, nobody's an expert and drinks are involved This is the most pretentious one, but my favorite Pick one artist and learn everything about them Childhood, influences, the movement they belong to Your brain likes concrete stories over abstract artistic movements Learn to solve a Rubik's Cube from a YouTube tutorial Surprisingly, not that hard, it'll take a weekend Find the expert. Whatever you got obsessed with this month, one of the world's 12 experts has a public email and has been waiting decades for someone to ask Email them I do this and you'd be surprised how often they answer Go to pop-up lecture nights from professors and get to the point where people start asking what happened to you