How can I become more intelligent?

[MadImmortalMan]

Well, your IQ is the ratio of your real age to your mental age, so I suggest you stop watching the Disney channel.

[Slargos]

I think "improving intelligence" is far too generic.  You need to break it down into digestable components.  Some mental skills that I find particularly useful are critical thinking and exposure.  Critical thinking allows you to evaluate your own performance effectively, and to differentiate between crap and useful information.  Exposure lets you see from different points of view and to make connections among bits and pieces.  Apart from all that, nothing beats "practice makes perfect".  If you do a job 100 times, each time looking for improvement, you'll do a much better job than someone who does it for the first few times.

For shame, Monoriu. You should know constructive answers are not wanted nor needed here. 

[viper37]

Reading books is not enough.
What else can I do?

Read the good kind of books.  Most universities offer their syllabus on-line nowadays, complete with working material and recommended chapters.
Find the field that interest you, gather these books and read.  Once you're done, read again.  And once more for the road.

What was it recently... something like "a mind is a weapon, and it needs books just like your sword needs limestone".  Yeah, I think that was it

[Slargos]

Reading books is not enough.
What else can I do?

Read the good kind of books.  Most universities offer their syllabus on-line nowadays, complete with working material and recommended chapters.
Find the field that interest you, gather these books and read.  Once you done, read again.  And once more for the road.

You should take your own advice. 

[Martinus]

Why are people giving serious advice? 

[Eddie Teach]

Because it's a serious matter.

[Syt]

Brain teasers are a good way to keep the noggin worked out:
http://brainden.com/

http://www.websudoku.com/

Also, do crossword puzzles. Preferrably ones that give hints that require you to think and not only reproduce learned information.
http://www.crossword-puzzles.co.uk/

[Monoriu]

Why are people giving serious advice? 

Are you intelligent enough to give a serious answer

[Slargos]

Why are people giving serious advice? 

Because we take Siegy seriously and believe he has potential.

If you wonder, now, why we never give you serious advice... well...

[dps]

Try just staying sober more often.

[The Brain]

I need to improve my intelligence level.
How can I do that?
Reading books is not enough.
I read a lot, and doens't make any diference.

What else can I do?

What exactly do you mean "intelligence level"? If you want to score better on IQ tests my impression is that doing a lot of IQ tests will help you. Or do you want to be better at intelligent conversation?

[Admiral Yi]

Buy a book on basic logic.

Read a quality daily newspaper.

Read your way through an encyclopedia.

[viper37]

Read your way through an encyclopedia.

Read Wikipedia and all the quoted sources

[Razgovory]

Siegey, you're smart enough.  I know we knock you on this board, but you aren't a dim bulb by any stretch.

Besides,

Though I said to myself, "Behold, I have become great and stored up wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem, and my mind has broad experience of wisdom and knowledge";

    yet when I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly, I learned that this also is a chase after wind.

    For in much wisdom there is much sorrow, and he who stores up knowledge stores up grief.

[The Brain]

Siegey, you're smart enough.  I know we knock you on this board, but you aren't a dim bulb by any stretch.

Besides,

Though I said to myself, "Behold, I have become great and stored up wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem, and my mind has broad experience of wisdom and knowledge";

    yet when I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly, I learned that this also is a chase after wind.

    For in much wisdom there is much sorrow, and he who stores up knowledge stores up grief.

Sour grapes. Being super intelligent is totally awesome, makes you happy as fuck. My life isn't misery.