Some activities you can do for your brain to become like this are:
- Chess
- Rubix Cube
- Lumosity (also a free app)...increases memory, faster thinking, etc.
Read authors such as
Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Frost, O'Connor, Kant, Pope, Locke, Oscar Wilde, and feminist historical books such as The Feminist Mystique, The Second Sex, etc. Authors such as Gloria Steinem and Simone de Beauvoir.
Some of these can also be psychology/neuroscience books which will help you learn how YOU work and how others work. Examples of these are
The Marshmallow Test, etc.
Also you can see intellectual and thought provoking speeches on TED TALKS.
Learn about all the theories you can...this is a recommended website:
http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/a_alphabetic.htm
Here are some other things you can learn about:
game theory
synthesia
rhetoric/fallacies/strawman/gaslighting (https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/)
capitalism,socialism,nihilism, marxism, freudian,
jungian
Lateral Thinking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking)
Other good sites:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://lesswrong.com/
http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/a_alphabetic.htm
Here are some other things you can learn about:
game theory
synthesia
rhetoric/fallacies/strawman/gaslighting (https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/)
capitalism,socialism,nihilism, marxism, freudian,
jungian
Lateral Thinking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking)
Other good sites:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://lesswrong.com/