3 Tips to Become Smarter and Take the Spotlight

Do you have trouble getting people interested? Would you like to join a conversation, but feel like you have nothing to add? Does everyone seem to know more than you do?

Note: This article is from blogger Benjamin Malev, who gives us 3 tips to become smarter and attract people's attention.

Often, you might struggle to find the right words, try to be clever, but no one pays attention to you, and think to yourself, “Why can’t I be in the spotlight for once?” I was embarrassed at social gatherings and did not know what to say, but I followed a simple plan to become more intelligent and shine in the spotlight.

Tips to Become Smarter and Take the Spotlight

1. Create your own ideas

Understanding the source of your thoughts makes you extraordinarily intelligent. This implies that reading a ready-made idea is like cooking a dish following a specific recipe. That is, the food may be great, but you will not learn to cook, and when you find yourself in a kitchen full of ingredients, you will be lost.

You do not understand how the ingredients interact to form a delicious meal, while an experienced cook does not need recipes. He knows why the different ingredients are put together and understands how to combine them to form a delicious dish.

In addition to reading prefabricated concepts that only present one viewpoint, you may be excellent at mulling over ideas but not at coming up with original ones. So, to structure your own ideas, search more deeply, read original books, and follow the way writers think.

That helps you connect ideas and build your own that attract attention. When you return to the source, you have plenty of room to interpret and form your original ideas, so search deeply to come up with them.

2. Always keep a pen and notepad

What do you do when you have a great idea? Do you just keep it in mind or do you write it down? Most of us are lazy; we do not write down our ideas or take the time to discover them correctly. We may keep the idea in mind and go on with our day, and then later find that it totally slipped our minds.

So, keep a pen and a diary handy to write down your new ideas as soon as they occur, or you can write them on your smartphone. For me, I often have great ideas when I never expect them. Topics for my essays appear in my head while I exercise or shower, so having a way to write them down immediately is a great way to keep track of your best ideas. Your ideas are priceless, so do not waste them.

3. Accept loneliness

Let me guess, you like to stay up to date. You read the latest news during breakfast, check your email every 5 minutes at work, even while doing the smallest things, and aimlessly scroll through your Twitter.

When was the last time you sat in silence and let yourself get bored? According to research, boredom fosters creativity. When you stop consuming information, you actually think. However, willing yourself to stop is like trying to resist a delicious piece of cake while on a diet; that is, you're more likely to give up.

Instead of wasting your energy, get rid of temptations, find a quiet place, turn off your smartphone, close the door and your eyes as well, allow your ideas to interact with each other, stimulate your creativity, stop consuming information non-stop, and start coming up with your own ideas. The American novelist Herman Melville says, "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

In conclusion

Drawing others’ attention is not about having the proper set of skills from birth. It's about developing your identity. People don't listen to fools. They listen to those who encourage them to learn more. All you need to become someone worth listening to is to learn constantly. Be interesting enough to smoothly attract people, so make an effort, be clever, and be deserving of people's attention.