Intellectual people with free time, perhaps?

Question

Make me more like you. I want to learn things. I want to be bright and knowledgeable. You got there somehow. Show me how you did it.
I will explain more if you ask. Just instant message me. I prefer msn... [e-mail]

I will truly appreciate it.

Answer 1

Trust me, you don't want to be intellectual. You want to be wise, smart, amiable, humble, yes, but not intellectual. You turn intellectual on me, and your head will be in the clouds with electricity sparking off your hairs and full of doubt and condescension. I tried to be intellectual and it almost sent me to the insane asylum. Too much brain activity and too much stress can overload your system.
Just accept everything, find peace with yourself, think positively, and give more than you take. If you try to be more like me, you'll find yourself listening to everything more and discovering more about yourself and your own nature. Your fascination with life will awaken your inner powers, potential, happiness, and fulfillment, and you will be spending more time trying to enjoy and appreciate the moment and everything that enters your life than trying to be more like anyone else or learn more about anything else.

Answer 2

I'm not on msn, but you're welcome to e-mail me. For now, I'll just offer some sage advice. Do as you are doing. Ask questions. I've just finished four years at uni, which taught me a lot, but being a uni student or graduate is by no means the only way to be an intellectual. I firmly believe in self teaching. I left school in Year 10, and in the three years or so before I decided to go to adult re-entry, I read a lot, and wrote a lot (just anything that came into my head), and my paltry skills learned at school grew rapidly into something quite impressive, if you don't mind me bragging. Because I was reading, I was influenced and inspired by the work of others. Because I was writing, I needed to look up things about spelling and grammar, and to check my facts. Thus, I pursued knowledge (be it from libraries, the Internet, etc.) and I attained it.

Of course, you don't have to do exactly as I did, but following up on pretty much anything that is of interest to you will broaden your knowledge. Read books, look up stuff on the net, ask people questions, and you will learn more than you can possibly remember. (Ask any of my mates - I forget stuff a lot, 'cos my head's too full!) Though again, you don't need to be an official academic to be smart (intelligence is, after all, the ability to obtain and use knowledge, rather than a sum of the knowledge itself), I found uni to be a great experience, that taught me a lot, in terms of both information and how to access information and use it. Good luck to you. :)

Answer 3

Culture is the greatest thing to possess in my opinion. Use more time broadening your horizons. This time you spend online. Learn french, study wine, jewelry, butterflies, learn how to figure out a rubik's cube, play chess on yahoo games, increase your vocabulary, and associate with those who do. For hobbies, I'd look into equestrian and Swim team, perhaps cricket or tennis. Study hard and take a true to the heart interest in learning. You can feel your brain when you're learning a lot, and I mean that. I have good advice for any semantics on anything within these categories, so choose what you will. Look into etiquette, and you'll find your newfound speech attracts others of like styles, and seems to have a charismatic effect over all others in your presence. Although it is a bit harder to have proper fun with the "normal" middle class groupage when you seem like you're on a pedestal and always formal to their eyes, but personally I prefer a good dinner party contrary to drinking and sunday night football. If you truly study up on these matters, you'll be a unique member of a dying breed in today's society.

Answer 4

I totally agree with Cordova, and all of those who suggested reading and always questioning what you read.

I'll go ahead and answer, even though I'm not sure I possess enough to be able to truly answer the question!

Also, I would experiment with anticipating and coming up with ways to dispel counter-arguments to any argument you make before they (the counterarguments) are expressed.

Also, question why you want to be bright and knowledgeable (although I think it is more than possible that you already are! Do you want to acquire these traits as one would acquire a skill? Are you wanting the ability to impress someone (though I doubt from your question that this is the case)?

Another thing, is to recognize your limits, you can't be knowledgeable about everything. Pick the areas that you want to excel at and focus on those. I'd love to learn every language known to man, continue to improve my piano technique, and gain extreme profficiency with just about any subject you could think of, but that is not possible for humans to do. We have to pick and choose. It is not possible to learn everything.

I think you're well on your way, the most powerful tool in the creation of intellect is books!

Answer 5

You have already proven that you are an intellectual person. You want to learn things and acknowledge that you do not know much. Every smart person knows that they do not know anything. It is precisely this, something you have demonstrated, that makes you bright and knowledgeable. The only people who are truly unintelligent are those who think they know something.

Answer 6

If you want to learn, then do it. Go to the bookstore or the library, find something that interests you, and read about it. Just remember, before you get caught up in the world of academe, there's a real world out there too.

Answer 7

Read everything you can.
On the internet, I can spend hours on sites like wikipedia and funtrivia, which would be good places for you to start as well.

Answer 8

I enjoy reading Dostoevsky, Rilke & Hesse. Hope that helps.

Answer 9

Get a good education. Go to your nearest college

Answer 10

Is this a serious question?

There's no 'there' to get to. And: be more like yourself, not like anyone else.

The short answer to the question is: read, read, read. And read the best stuff you can. And question everything, especially your own assumptions.