Put it all together, and people will THINK you’re clever. But the aim of this book is to teach you a few lessons in the knowledge that can amaze everyone you speak to, the memory to help you recall it, and the creativity to use it in the right place. Cleverness, as I see it, is a mixture of four things – intelligence, knowledge, memory and creativity. But there are a lot of people out there with only an average amount of intelligence, but who are regarded by everyone who knows them as ‘a really clever person’. Some people have a lot of it, and some people very little. What’s the difference? Intelligence is something you’re born with. But it’s important to note that when I say ‘clever’, I don’t mean the same as ‘intelligent’.
This book will teach you how to be clever. How To Be Clever So, what’s this book all about? It does what it says on the tin.