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by austincheney 2708 days ago
It is like exercise... you are shaping your brain to the problem. The US military actually tests for this in what's called the Army GT score of the ASVAB test.

When I took the ASVAB in high school I scored a 107. That score is too low to become a warrant officer so I had to retake it a couple of years ago for my officer packet and I scored a 129 out of a maximum 130. That puts me in the top 0.1% of testers. I am not smarter or more intelligent than when I was in high school. I do write software though. Every couple of years I look back on my software and algorithms realizing how I continue to improve and see the solutions more clearly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Services_Vocational_Apti...