If you’re looking to boost your intelligence you can always read a book,
surround yourself with educated people, learn a new skill and take care
of your health by exercising, getting enough sleep and eating “brain foods.” You can even increase your intelligence by watching TV and movies from time-to-time.
Of
course, you have to be discriminating in which shows and movies to
view. Educational content like documentaries and current affairs
programs are your best options since they may improve your general
knowledge and conversational repertoire. Sometimes this type of content
can even help you discover a new interest that you may wish to turn into
a hobby.
Besides documentaries and programs like the news, you
can watch the occasional movie like the following eight films. I’ve
found that these movies have not only peaked my interest in new subject
matters, they’ve also provided some valuable life and business lessons.
8. “Inside Out” (2015)
Yes. This is a Pixar film. But, as Charlie Jane Adams, one of the founders of i09 and author of the bestselling All The Birds in the Sky, explains,
this story about a young girl named Riley struggling to adjust to
moving to a new city “ is an extended metaphor for the changes that
happen in your heart and mind as you grow up -- the dueling emotions
show the emotional states of a child, being supplanted and rearranged as
you learn maturity.” The film also explores “the complexity of the ways
that different emotions interact with each other.”
During the
course of the film Riley’s emotions, Joy, Fear, Sadness, Disgust, and
Anger, discover “how to manage more difficult situations, and to abandon
their old assumptions about what kind of emotional state is best.”
Additionally, “Inside Out” also explores “the ways that memories are
stored in the brain, and how memories can change over time as you
revisit them.”
Even though this is a kid’s film, those are all priceless lessons that entrepreneurs should learn during the course of their entrepreneurial journey.
7. “Limitless” (2011)
This
thriller starring Bradley Cooper follows Edward Morra, a struggling
writer, who is introduced to a nootropic drug called NZT-48. This
mysterious pill grants him the ability to fully utilize his brain, which
in turn, drastically improves his life.
While there isn’t such a
drug, at least not legally or at this level, “Limitless” will prime you
to think smarter. Priming, according to Psychology Today,
“is a nonconscious form of human memory concerned with the perceptual
identification of words and objects. It refers to activating particular
representations or associations in memory just before carrying out an
action or task.” For instance, if you see the word "yellow," it might be
slightly faster for you to recognize the word "banana." This is
“because yellow and banana are closely associated in memory.”
6. “The Imitation Game” (2014)
This
film tells the story of mathematician Alan Turing, a.k.a. the father of
modern computing, as he assisted in a British code-breaking operation
that helped shorten the Second World War.
Besides learning the
history of Turning and how he laid the groundwork for computers and
artificial intelligence by inventing a “universal machine,” “The
Imitation Game” also celebrates human ingenuity, encourages you to think
big, and inspires you to learn more about Turing and the machine and test that bear his name -- which would come in handy if you’re involved in the tech industry.
5. "Memento" (2000)
Christopher
Nolan’s fascinating detective story follows Leonard (Guy Pierce), a man
who is incapable of forming new memories, as he attempts to find his
wife’s killer. The film starts in the middle and works it’s way back to
the beginning in order to make the viewer go through the same emotions
as Leonard.
Juggling between these non-linear narratives can improve your attention and imagine since it forces you to draw your own conclusion. But, more importantly, “Memento” illustrates the importance of memory techniques.
4. “Good Will Hunting” (1997)
This
Academy Award-winning film follows a janitor with genius-level
intellect working at MIT with a troubled past. Good Will Hunting
actually brought in an MIT professor for
the complex mathematical equations, and there are also plenty of
excellent literary and philosophical discussions between Will and Dr.
Sean Maguire (Robin Williams), the most valuable lessons from “Good Will
Hunting” are understanding that education can come from anywhere,
there’s no such thing as “perfect,” and the importance of emotions and
relationships.
3. “Primer” (2004)
Written,
directed, and starring Shane Carruth, who has a college degree in
mathematics and previously worked as an engineer, “Primer” is a science
fiction drama about two engineers who accidentally discover how to time
travel. The film, like Memento, has a non-linear structure, explores the
philosophical implications time travel, and discusses complex physics and science theories the Meissner effect and Feynman diagrams.
This
film can also be compared to a Rubix cube in that it requires multiple
viewings in order to rearrange the plot until you figure this
complicated puzzle out.
2. “A Beautiful Mind” (2001)
Inspired
by the bestselling biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and
mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., this Academy Award winning film
focuses on the discovery of the Nash Equilibrium, which as Investopedia explains,
“is a concept of game theory where the optimal outcome of a game is one
where no player has an incentive to deviate from his chosen strategy
after considering an opponent's choice.”
That may sound confusing, but economists have
used this theory to “work out how competing companies set their prices,
how governments should design auctions to squeeze the most from bidders
and how to explain the sometimes self-defeating decisions that groups
make.” Furthermore, the “Nash equilibrium helps economists understand
how decisions that are good for the individual can be terrible for the
group.”
1. “Pi” (1998)
This
surrealist psychological thriller film, which was written and directed
by Darren Aronofsky, follows an unemployed number theorist named Max who
suffers from cluster headaches, paranoia, hallucinations, and social
anxiety disorder. The film is notable for covering themes ranging from
religion, mysticism, and the relationship of the universe to
mathematics. Max becomes obsessed with these themes in order to find the
key to the chaos that surrounds us everywhere, which he can use predict
anything, such as the stock market.
An introduction to these
themes is extremely interesting, but I’ve found that the real takeaway
from this movie is the dangers of constantly looking for something that
may not be there. No matter how educated and informed you are, you can’t
always predict what’s going to come next.
What movies do you believe have give your IQ a boost? And, don’t worry if they’re not critically acclaimed or complex. Even “trashy” movies may make you smarter.
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