Today, in spite of the scientifically proven necessity of life-long learning, the idea that innate intelligence (thinking skills) is enough to have a successful life is dominating the minds of people. Why is this the case? What can be done about this problem?

Nowadays
people
tend to believe that being born with intellectual
abilities
will ensure a better future rather than gaining knowledge throughout life.
This
essay will discuss the main problems associated with
this
issue and propose some possible solutions to avoid them. The main problems caused by the loss of
self-learning
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the self-learning
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process are
procrastinating
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procrastination
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and lack of motivation and ambition. Procrastinating is a state when
person
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a person
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is slow or late about doing something that should be done. If
people
only rely on their innate
abilities
and do not do anything at all, they will lose their valuable time and many opportunities. In the future, they will grow up to be a person who is unable to do any work in a timely manner.
Moreover
, when
people
do not study they lose motivation and become ambitionless, and in
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no
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success
will be preserved for them. There are several solutions like reading books and improving cognitive
abilities
by solving quizzes and puzzles.
Studying
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process can be frustrating for many
people
.
Therefore
, reading interesting books,
watching
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and watching
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animated educational videos can be good alternatives. There are other intellectual activities
such
as solving puzzles, interesting quizzes,
playing
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and playing
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chess, which not only
improve
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brain activity
,
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but
also
entertain
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a person. To sum up, relying only on innate
abilities
can slow down the pace of
developing
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development
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and possible solutions include boosting knowledge by reading books, solving quizzes and puzzles and playing intellectual games.
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