Best Ways to Get SMARTER Online - Best Self Improvement Websites
Never before in the history of the world have we had such an opportunity to become knowledgeable with the Internet. There is an infinite amount of knowledge that you can soak in. You can become super humanly intelligent; yet for some reason, most of us squander this opportunity.
We watched PewDiePie, h3h3. Most people, when they make this type of video, they say funny cat videos. I don't watch funny cat videos; I don't know how many people actually do that. Either way, I'm not calling myself a saint. Usually, when I waste time, it's on the Internet.
But when used correctly, the Internet can be an incredible tool to boost your knowledge, increase your intelligence, and learn some very practical real-world skills. So here are five websites that have really helped develop me into a smarter person with more skills, and just I'm more useful now.
Number one is YouTube. Believe it or not, right here, right on this very website. YouTube is kind of a high-risk, high-reward platform for learning. So they put a rose dressing on the pizza. Well, there are millions of channels that will waste a lot of your time. There are also an equal amount—actually, I don't know if it's an equal amount—but there are a lot of channels that will teach you real-world skills in an entertaining way. You probably know this already; if you have any particular skill that you want to learn that you're passionate about, there is no better place to find tutorials for that thing than on YouTube.
So if you subscribe to channels that will help build you up and develop you as a person, like this one, and unsubscribe from all those channels that will waste your time, you will find that you'll become a much better person in the long run.
Number two is Khan Academy. I used this website back when it was just the YouTube channel, all throughout high school; it was a game changer. You want to learn chemistry, physics, math, history—you name it—economics, computer programming, it's all there. So if you're looking for introductory to intermediate knowledge on any academic subject you can think of, go to Khan Academy dot com. It is an invaluable resource for diving into the meat and potatoes of all these different disciplines and teaching you them from scratch.
Number three is Duolingo. Now, Duolingo is both a website and an app, and it is the best tool I have ever seen for learning a new language, which I encourage everyone to do. I learned more in one month of daily Duolingo than I did from one year of classroom Spanish lessons. That's how powerful this tool is, and the app is just incredible. It's so well polished, so well fleshed out, and it sends you push notifications to remind you every single day to work on your skill. So go learn a language and use Duolingo to do it.
Number four is Code Academy, sort of like Khan Academy, but for computer programming. I'll be honest, I'm not into code too much. I have dabbled; from the little bit that I've used Code Academy, I have nothing but good things to say about it. I have some friends who are really into code, and every time that I mention that I'm mildly interested in learning it, they always say the same thing every single time. They tell me to go to Code Academy. It's completely free, it's interactive, and it's one of those real-world applicable skills.
I talked in my last livestream about having a marketable skill, and when you have a marketable skill, people will want to pay you money for it. So if you don't have a marketable talent and you have been thinking about getting into code, there's no better time than right now. As society gets more digital, everyone's gonna need someone who knows code or at least understands how it works.
My fifth and final recommendation for a website that will make you smarter is, believe it or not, Reddit. Now, before you dislike the video, you got to hear me out. Reddit is a very interesting site in that it is what you make of it. When you just make a Reddit account, you have all these different recommendations coming to you on your homepage, and those are just the default subreddits. Go ahead and unsubscribe from every single one of those.
When you're done that, go ahead and subscribe to r/self-improvement, r/getdiscipline. There's a whole bunch of other ones I'll link in the description, and these will provide you with valuable communities of like-minded people who are trying to improve themselves and learn new skills. I don't think there's any other website besides YouTube that offers me so much consistent value on sort of a community basis.
So subscribe to subreddits that align with the skills you're trying to learn and the habits you're trying to develop, and you'll find that some of the advice on there is some of the best advice you'll ever receive in your life. It can also be some of the crappiest advice you've ever seen; so just definitely take everything on that site with a grain of salt, but this is the Internet—you should know that by now.
So that's it. The Internet does not have to be a place that sucks up all your time and makes you a lazy pathetic. It can actually help you have a better life; you just have to use it in the right way. So by visiting the right websites and unsubscribing from the wrong ones, you can use the Internet to its fullest potential, and you can let it help you reach yours.
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