Three ways to increase your intelligence
Continually expand the scope, source, intensity of the information you receive. Constantly revise your reality maps, and seek new metaphors about the future to understand what's happening now. Develop external networks for increasing intelligence. In particular, spend all your time with people as smart or smarter than you.
I'll give an upvote to whoever knows the source of that.
Timothy Leary's Intelligence Agents, quoting Aleister Crowley, supposedly.
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