How to be more like highly intelligent who live free of cultural silos

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Rapper Drake recently released his latest studio album, but is also famously known for being featured on a DJ Khaled song called “No New Friends”

The theme and crux of the tune is that as an adult, your social circles aremore or less complete and there is no room for others, and anyone brand new.

The song is more or less true for a lot of adults.

Granted, even if you wanted to increase your friend group, it’s hard to do, especially when you move to a new state, start a new job or commence at a large university or college.

It can be overwhelming, in particular, for the shy and introverted amongst us.

Nonethelss, a lot of us are also well settled into our lives. We don’t really go out our way searching for new connections, outside of business or work ones.

The unfortunate part is that when we purposefully sever our efforts to expand our personal network, we shut down our brain’s opportunity to grow.

We become less intelligent for closing ourselves off.

Here me out. I’ll connect this theory and back it up.

Read on.

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