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The Renaissance Mind
Cultivating a broad range of pursuits was once seen as the richest way to live, and the surest path to Great discoveries.
Even today, in a time where the model of efficiency via hyper-specialisation has shifted our focus from ideas to output, the envelope-shifters we most look up to are polymaths. (Steve Jobs and Elon Musk spring to mind.)
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- Wide interests make him truly rounded, perhaps even multi-specialised.
- He can add value to any conversation, either through his familiarity with a particular area or his ability to draw parallels across subjects.
- He can connect with a wider ra...
- Start by reading magazines and blogs to get to grips with new fields;
- Sign up to a course in something new. It will help add extra dimensions to your life experience.
- Pick a new sport – a true polymath cultivates his physique.
- Give up t...
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He/She has a endless power to improvise with what is to hand.
The more fields of knowledge he/she covers, the greater his/her resources for improvisation.
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A Polymath is defined as one who is specialized in at least two unrelated fields or domains while having a passive interest in other domains too. They are individualists that hold a holistic view of the world.
Polymaths have an interest in many different phenomena and are curious and advent...
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- Action: “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
- Experiment: “Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itse...
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