Be strongly inclined to be an intellectual? (4,1,4,4)

'be strongly inclined' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'to be an intellectual?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'an' could be 'i' (Roman numeral for one) and 'i' is found within the answer.
'intellectual?' could be 'good' ('good' can be similar in meaning to 'intellectual') and 'good' is present in the answer.
'to be' could be 'am' and 'am' is located in the remaining letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?