Do you have analytical intelligence? 4 tips to learn to reason better

It is the one that we commonly talk about, the one that we readily associate with intelligence itself and that we try to quantify according to scales. “It relies on all cognitive faculties, that is to say language, logic, memory, attention, understanding”, explains Brigitte Prot, educational psychologist, teacher and trainer, author in particular of Generation Z, unleash the desire to learn (Odile Jacob, 2023).

Analytical intelligence “is the ability to evaluate different data, then to deduce or induce, finally to reason. This constructed and sometimes complex mental process allows information to be processed in a methodical way. Particularly useful in the field learning, particularly at school and then at university and professionally, analytical intelligence relies above all on training.” The good news is that there is no age to start brain sport. Here are 4 tips for better reasoning.

Take care of your lifestyle

It seems obvious, and yet: to strengthen your brain and allow it to function optimally, you must above all keep it in good health.

Pay attention to your diet, your sleep, practice physical activity (avoiding the risk of head trauma), treat your problems (hypertension, diabetes, etc.) and regulate your stress, a real mental pollutant.

Slow down

Analytical intelligence feeds on knowledge, but it needs to assimilate it, not consume it.

It is therefore better to delve deeper into a subject that interests you rather than read the entire press diagonally, or worse yet, post an article on the networks after having read only the first ten lines.

Play

Board games, card games, crosswords or arrows, sudokus, Scrabble… All these supports invite you to solve small problems by exercising your logic while keeping a smile.

It is moreover thanks to games that the child “becomes intelligent”: he explores, takes risks, questions himself, makes mistakes, without there being anything at stake since it is only a game.

Enrich your knowledge

Thanks to brain plasticity and in the absence of injury, it is possible to learn new things throughout your life. Like the grandfather of a student of Brigitte Prot who did not hesitate to take his baccalaureate with his grandson and obtained… a mention!

Whether it is academic knowledge (a foreign language, a musical instrument) or more familiar data (information on your genealogy for example), these elements will be additional points of support to refine your analyses. Then don’t hesitate to share them: the more you communicate, the more your brain becomes active.