how to become smarter and wiser, or About the benefits of receiving external information as one of the factors in personality development If you have ever asked yourself the questions listed in the title of the article, then most likely you understand that they can be solved exactly in this order. A person, from the beginning, acquires life experience - receives information from the outside, and then processes it. And if the process is successful, the personality develops, becoming smarter and wiser. If a person is limited in receiving information, then a fundamentally new experience In fact, he has nowhere to acquire it. There is nowhere to get food for the development of the mind and there is no basis for the emergence of wisdom. Those who are called smart and wise people are mainly learned people and/or people who have seen and experienced a lot. Isn’t it? Fate doesn’t give it to everyone the opportunity to participate in long journeys and experience many adventures. Not everyone manages to experience her favor and her disdain, in all their manifestations. Many will say: “Yes, and - thank God!” But how can a person with an “ordinary” fate internally to evolve, so to speak, “without leaving home”?..Is this possible? Quite. Receiving information from all currently available sources! And, what is very important, passing it through yourself, reflecting on what you have learned, analyzing the causes and consequences of events, making internal decisions and drawing conclusions. Otherwise, everything new will be remembered, at most, for a few days, and then, happily, it will disappear from memory, like everything that we consider unimportant, and therefore unworthy of being stored there. And if you want to develop diversified and quickly, have information that is difficult or even impossible to access in ordinary life , and in addition, guarantee yourself high-quality elaboration and deep understanding - read books, attend trainings! With their help, you will increase your erudition. Many people would be much more attractive to others, and their own lives could turn out much more interesting and more successful if they developed themselves internally. Develop and become more interesting!