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To me, thoughts are like layers of a building. Maybe best to imagine you're exploring a labyrinth with deeper and deeper layers.
Layer 5 is deep thoughts. It can get deeper. But i suppose i would quantify it as being deeply connected, by branches, to other thoughts. Deeply rooted perhaps.
When you think deeply about things, you get better at analysing problems.
Something i love talking about in depth is movies, but if I'm completely candid with you I think I had to engage with YouTube essays to learn to do so effectively. You learn fast when the topic is something you enjoy. I study engineering but I recently did an English course externally just for fun, and I was so much more engaged with that then my main course. Human passion is a curse, but without it we stop being human or even animal. With no impetus to do anything, perhaps.
Your own fear is the dam wall holding back a reservoir of curiosity. Let it flow forth. Everything else will come.
The most important thing is just look for what you're into, and latch onto it, and engage with it in as many ways as possible - not just reading and study but doing activities adjacent to it.
I genuinely enjoy deep thought and unfortunately phone usage really represses it. Friends that don't accommodate deep talks/lack of people to talk to full stop (no shams in it) similarly repressed the amount of deep talk that can be done.
people think you are are a mentally ill weirdo if you try to communicate beyond a superficial level these days. because everything has to fit into a short text messages of no more than like 25 words. otherwise it's 'too long to read'.
and they wonder why they are so depressed, anxious, sad, and lonely... well because this is what you choose. you choose a shallow miserable existence and it makes you miserable... rather than making choices that require more effort that would resolve the issues and lack of connection.
and when you point this out to people they get very angry and insult you because, you're using too many words and they'd rather go back to watching tiktoks and feeling depressed about their life.