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Why do you want to improve your abstract thinking skills?

I would be surprised if there is anyway to improve these skills, g(aka IQ) is notoriously hard to improve.

But I imagine you want better abstract thinking skills for a specific reason, and it'll probably be much more effective to skip directly to the reason you want to improve these skills.

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To be honest, there's no definite reason other than personally growing and being able to understand more concepts. I don't know if IQ can be "improved", but I do know that people who have battled through difficult problems develop ways of thinking that make it easier for further difficult concepts to be understood. Abstract thinking is very powerful and you can train it.

IQ can be higher and lower during a lifetime, surprisingly, as long as you maintain brain plasticity.

This works even better for people who think of intelligence as something improvable, like physical skill. You might not start with great ability, but with practice you'll get better.

It is not, and by thinking so you are limiting yourself.

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