Ways to be smarter
Re-shuffle your friends. Be an intelligent follower with some smart dudes.
Learn to use your ears more than your mouth! Ask more than you provide answers.
Start learning to do things differently.
Study a little bit about laws and learn why lawyers are usually smart people!
Learn to at least break some rules!
Anytime you are being confronted with questions, learn to always get out of the box.
Replace social media with reading real books.
Be friends with every one of different profession starting from mechanics, fashion designer, cleaner, conductor, accountant, nurse, doctor etc . Have a mixture of friends! Each one of them got a life lesson for you!
Be stubborn. Tell yourself I don’t want to passive but proactive!
Try to learn from other people mistake. Instead of you mocking anybody, learn! learn!