Your intellect can be "activated" in the pursuit of a superficial knowledge of Markov Chains to tell your boss or remember in the future that it might help you

Your intellect can be "activated" in the pursuit of a superficial knowledge of Markov Chains to tell your boss or remember in the future that it might help you with problems. EZ-learning stuff will help you then. Or your intellect can be "activated" in the sense that further engaging it leads you to deeper, more general knowledge. Is this website doing it? I don't believe so.