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Books - Read, read and read. Anything is good for you. From Economics to Psychology passing by Non-Fiction and Biographies. Read something you are interested in. The subject itself doesn't really matter if it interests you. By reading you will broaden your vocabulary and your perspective about life. You will have something interesting to share with others since you will have some knowledge that they don't have.Frequent smart people - Some sociologists say that you are the average of the 5 people you frequent the most. If this is true then hang out with these people. By only listening, you will learn how they speak, how they think and how they present their content. I personally think that listening skills are more important than talking skills. When you talk, you are giving. When you listen, you are receiving. Yet too many people talk and don't listen enough. ( I am using a graph made by Oliver Emberton - An amazing guy that you must follow )Follow smart people on Quora - You have the luck to be a member of a community which allows you to read and learn interesting facts, experiences or advices from people who have already reached a form of success. Be challenged intellectually by their responses or questions.But this won't make you a smart person. Only an intellectual.

You enter a library, . . .. . . take a book off the shelf, and notice that it’s filled with seemingly random strings of characters.You take another book off the shelf. Same thing.You examine a few more books and notice that all the books are quite similar.Each book has exactly 500 pages. Each page has exactly 40 lines. And each line has exactly 50 character slots.You examine a few more books and estimate that there are roughly 100 potential characters (including a blank spaces) that can go into each character slot.Hmmm. Interesting.Then you notice a sign that says “START HERE.” You go there, pick the first book off the shelf, and see that every page is blank.You pick up the next book. It has a single letter ‘A’ in the first character slot, and all the other pages are blank.You pick up the third book. It has a single letter ‘B’ in the first character slot. And, again, all the other pages are blank.Then you look out across the library, and the shelves go on and on as far as the eye can see.Your best guess is that each book in this library is a unique combination of characters, and that, collectively, the books in the library cover all the combinations that can be formed in books of this nature.You do some quick math and calculate that there must be 100^(500*40*50) books -- or 100^1,000,000 (one-hundred to the millionth power) books.A vast number indeed.Then you begin to wonder what books might be out there.There must be:A copy of “Hamlet," -- TAKE THAT, infinite monkeys!A copy of “Hamlet” with one typo.A copy of "Hamlet" with a different typo.A copy of “Hamlet” with two typos.A book containing all the best Quora answers that can fit in 500 pages -- including some Oliver Emberton answers that haven't been written yet.An accurate 500-page biography of your life (from your birth until your death).An extremely elegant proof of the Riemann Hypothesis (or is it a counterexample?)A book containing a cure for cancer.Wow! Just wow!This is exciting.Those books are out there somewhere. You just know it.You have a cure for cancer almost at your fingertips!Then the reality of the situation hits you, and you realize that the odds of finding any book you might want to find are very, very, . . . in fact vanishingly, . . . slim..The numbers are just too big.And there you sit with mixed emotions -- torn between absolute wonder at what books must sit in this library, and abject depression because you’ll never find them.---------This is basically Jorge Luis Borges’s “Library of Babel” thought experiment.It never fails to blow my mind.

Terence McKenna is like your favourite song; there’s nothing exactly like it, but there are many other, different songs you might enjoy.After listening to all of his talks, I really wanted to still hear more. But there are no more. There are only others speakers that you might enjoy. The Psychedelic Salon podcast has most of his talks.If you’re interested in the brain, Oliver Sacks and Vilayanur S. Ramachandran have both given a few talks.If psychedelic drugs particularly interest you, choices seem limited. Maybe biographies or documentaries about McKenna, Timothy Leary, and LSD/magic mushrooms in general might interest you. Timothy Leary was known for his charisma, but it doesn’t seem to come across well in YouTube form, and his books are generally bizarre. There’s Ram Dass also, but personally I find his talks quite dull.Alan Watts may interest you if you like philosophical stuff about life generally.If you’re into reading, there’s a lot of interesting material out there on related subjects. I particularly enjoyed the book “Shroom” by Andy Letcher, and “Acid Dreams” by Martin A. Lee.You might enjoy the biography of Terence written by his brother.Regarding being a brilliant thinker, I think that was true of McKenna in a poetical sense. I don’t think even he himself, by the end of his life, thought most of his ideas really added up. He just enjoyed speculating and getting excited about mushrooms and society, while slightly high on cannabis, and ended up having to do that whether he wanted to or not, to make a living.