One other thing, if you really want to feel smarter, you need to learn something instead of ruminating the same old thought.
Ancestral knowledge, collective consciousness, chinese, japanese and most of dream seeds will help, but mostly reading (or audiobooks if that’s your thing).
Edit: Lol, one is never too careful, I know something here is gonna get twisted or misinterpretted.
One book won’t make you smart, ten books neither. If you want to be a genius reading book is to you what weight lifting is to bodybuilders. It’s your lifestyle
Super important to get the « faith » to study is unstoppable willpower. It’ll turn you into robocop