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There is no such thing as general intelligence exercises (to my current knowledge). You know those brain mobile games, that claimed you'd be smarter by doing s

There is no such thing as general intelligence exercises (to my current knowledge). You know those brain mobile games, that claimed you'd be smarter by doing some pattern matching games? They got sued for lying about how effective their games are. It doesn't work, only makes you better at said game. There was a post on HN recently lamenting about the calculus cartel and you don't get taught WHEN you need to use calculus. Which is the only time you actually need calculus.

THENATHE 4y ago
To be frank, I disagree. A large amount of thinking at a level higher than day to day mundanities revolves around understanding how to think abstractly and critically. Something like calculus, while completely worthless to many people, teaches concepts like: things that seem overtly complicated are not necessarily, things that appear simple and small could be wildly complicated, and the process of telling the difference through practice, skill, and experience; how to think in ways that are beyond sensory; how to build knowledge on subjects that can provide context (if you know how to perform limit functions you can more accurately estimate what a limit function would look like and then apply that concept or estimate) to the real world in abstract but useful ways. General intelligence exercises is just a term to mean “teaching people how to think in a more abstract way”