TO BE SMART FOLLOW THESE STEPS

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   1-Reflect. Look back on your day every night before bed and think about how it went and what you could have done differently. Reflection (thinking about your strengths and weaknesses, how you appear to others, etc) can help you find areas of knowledge or behavior that you want to improve, and motivate you to keep working on them.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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   2-Ask a friend to help identify blind spots. You might think that you're great at asking questions in class and ignore that behavior when you reflect on your day, but the others in the group might not be interested in the answers and think it'd be smarter to ask the teacher after class. Remember that everyone has their own definition of what's smart - so ask 2 or 3 friends, to get a good picture of how you present yourself and where you can improve.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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   3-You should also be able to think about yourself and identify flaws, or have people close to you who are willing to help with this. Even if you like yourself just fine and don't want to change, knowing what other people see will help you understand how they react to you - which will make you smarter and more sympathetic toward others.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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   4-Know when to stay quiet. There's an old quote which states (paraphrased) that the fool may appear to be wise, until he opens his mouth. Sometimes, you may think that nothing you say or do will appear smart. In those cases, think first and stay quiet... no one will know how dumb you feel, but they will remember how smart you looked by staying out of it!
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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   5-Read! . This is NOT necessary, but reading quality books is a good way to learn. A person who has been reading quality books for 10 years is undoubtedly smart. You could start with something simple, like a fun novel entangled with philosophy.
   
   
   
   
   
   Source : wikihow

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The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are here. And they are big. “Bigger than bigger” is the official tagline. Ever since the first Galaxy Note started the trend of big phones (phablets) the market has expanded to millions of devices.
Till now, the screen size was one of the biggest factors stopping an Android user from considering an iPhone. Are the feature sets in 6 and 6 Plus finally enough to convince an Android user to jump ship? Let’s find out.

1. Larger 4.7 and 5.5 Inch Screen:

This is the biggie. I know a lot of people who liked the iPhone and wanted to own one but didn’t solely because of the small screen. Large screens are addictive. Once you try it you can’t go back. If you’re a Note or Galaxy user looking for a change, there has never been a better time to make the switch. The iPhone 6 has a 4.7 inch 1334×750 screen while the larger 6 Plus gets a full 5.5 inch 1920×1080 HD resolution.

2. Awesome Camera And Slo-Mo

While the camera is only 8 megapixels, it’s in a class of its own. This time Apple has integrated “Focus Pixels” technology, which makes focusing incredibly fast. And the 6 Plus gets Optical Image Stabilization that rectifies the blur caused by shaky hands.
The cherry on top is the slow motion mode. Up from 120 frames per second to 240 for iPhone 6. I’ve watched some footage that was taken in this mode and it is surreal.

3. Apple Pay

I know it doesn’t sound like a “killer feature”, but for US citizens, it can be. Apple Pay makes processing payments simple and secure. Using the NFC and Touch ID you’ll be able pay at select stores and outlets (more than 200,000 and growing) with just a tap of your phone.
Apple Pay uses a tokenized system so the merchant has none of your personal information like your card number or CVV. This can drastically reduce credit card fraud. And unlike Google Wallet, your credit card credentials are stored on your device and are not uploaded to the cloud at all. The only way to authenticate a transaction is by scanning your fingerprint using Touch ID. That means even if you lose your phone that’s filled with all your credit card details, no one could steal your information.

4. Widgets, Extensions And Openness With iOS 8

This has been the biggest argument between iOS and Android. Closed vs open control over your device. While Apple isn’t completely taking the open source route, it is opening up certain aspects of the OS, and it’s doing so securely. Apps will continue to run in a sandbox mode but now they’ll be able to communicate to one another in the sandboxed environment itself.

iOS 8 is also adding widgets to the Notification Center. These are interactive and have live updates, just like Android widgets. Only they’ll be accessible from anywhere, not just the home screen.

Extensions are going to bring apps closer and make it easy to share data from one app to another, something Android has been good at since day one.

5. Health And Fitness Tracking

While Android is catching up, iPhone is still at the forefront of fitness and health tracking. The M8 motion co-processor on the iPhone 6/6Plus is always running in the background, keeping track of how many steps you walked and more.

The new M8 chip has a built-in Barometer that will track elevation and the steps you climb. It can also distinguish between walking, jogging, and cycling all on its own.

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