Looking at the rest of the thread it seems a lot of people are conflating other traits for middling intelligence, say, being in the 35th to 65th percentile intelligence range. Which is a somewhat literal interpretation but roughly what I would personally consider a qualifies as a "midwit".
If that's what specifically you're asking about, it's a little fuzzy depending on how much weight you want to lend the concept of a general intelligence quotient (G factor), but roughly speaking if you're over 25-30 years old then at best you probably won't be able to train yourself any more than 10 percentile points consistently higher on a good state of the art suite of tests meant to measure g. But that's all arbitrary and whilst I believe the underlying kernel of a concept holds true, that there is are factor(s) that affect all forms of cognitive activity which just so happen to be highly heritable, the weightings and task choices are entirely arbitrary so cannot be claimed as a truly unified and objective measure of intelligence. So yeah, if you're a midwit as I define it, that's unlikely to significantly change at this point, at least using the imperfect tests we have currently to measure it.
But that isn't necessarily a problem, as I said it looks like many people here are not purely speaking of middling intelligence when they say "midwit", but middling intelligence coupled with numerous other negative traits, like a lack of self-awareness of emotional instability. Truly just having an average intelligence is not a problem, and honestly even the majority of people that folks here might consider based and righteous are themselves probably not exceptionally intelligent.
So I say don't fret too hard about the strict intelligence portion which is relatively fixed but in real world settings can be mitigated, practice good mental hygiene in other respects such as focus and proactive self-reflection and you can still see strong positive changes in a few chosen areas. You can also just get and stay physically healthier, that is as much a factor in mental acuity as any form of direct cognitive training.
Looking at the rest of the thread it seems a lot of people are conflating other traits for middling intelligence, say, being in the 35th to 65th percentile intelligence range. Which is a somewhat literal interpretation but roughly what I would personally consider a qualifies as a "midwit".
If that's what specifically you're asking about, it's a little fuzzy depending on how much weight you want to lend the concept of a general intelligence quotient (G factor), but roughly speaking if you're over 25-30 years old then at best you probably won't be able to train yourself any more than 10 percentile points consistently higher on a good state of the art suite of tests meant to measure g. But that's all arbitrary and whilst I believe the underlying kernel of a concept holds true, that there is are factor(s) that affect all forms of cognitive activity which just so happen to be highly heritable, the weightings and task choices are entirely arbitrary so cannot be claimed as a truly unified and objective measure of intelligence. So yeah, if you're a midwit as I define it, that's unlikely to significantly change at this point, at least using the imperfect tests we have currently to measure it.
But that isn't necessarily a problem, as I said it looks like many people here are not purely speaking of middling intelligence when they say "midwit", but middling intelligence coupled with numerous other negative traits, like a lack of self-awareness of emotional instability. Truly just having an average intelligence is not a problem, and honestly even the majority of people that folks here might consider based and righteous are themselves probably not exceptionally intelligent.
So I say don't fret too hard about the strict intelligence portion which is relatively fixed but in real world settings can be mitigated, practice good mental hygiene in other respects such as focus and proactive self-reflection and you can still see strong positive changes in a few chosen areas. You can also just get and stay physically healthier, that is as much a factor in mental acuity as any form of direct cognitive training.