when you describe someone as being smart, presumably you are refereeing to an attribute that is innate. You can study smarter, but this does not make you smarter but rather more efficient at whatever task you are trying to study. For it to make you smarter would require such techniques to lead to a permanent rise of IQ, which has not been shown to be the case. Psychologists have spent a long time trying to find ways to raise IQ and have failed, according to Dr. Jordan Peterson.