If being a generalist was so ineffective, why are the founders of the five largest companies in the world - Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, Larry Page, and Jeff Bezos - all polymaths? Are these legends just genius anomalies? Or are they people we could and should imitate to be successful in a modern knowledge economy? You have to be odd to be number 1 - Dr. It is more accessible and more essential in a modern knowledge based economy.
I believe that this is the best time for why nearly everyone should become a polymath. One of the key ideas essential to becoming a more successful polymath, is to try new things and dare to be different. This in turn dictates how readily we form memories of various kinds, and how strongly we retain them. Among other things, this bit of the brain produces significant amounts of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that regulates the rate at which new connections are made between brain cells. It appears that a great deal depends on the nucleus basalis, located in the basal forebrain. There is a common pessimistic assumption that learning somehow stops when you leave school or university or hit thirty, yet it is at odds with the evidence. In Estonia, the phrase, ‘Nine trades, the tenth one - hunger’ is still common place. Indeed, the Chinese had the expression, ‘Equipped with knives all over, yet none is sharp’.
There are dire warning against being a ‘generalist’, which have persisted for hundreds of years, in dozens of languages. So, what sets us apart? Why do people still fear polymaths today? I often hear the term, ‘ Jack of all trades, master of none’ used as negative insult towards my background of science, art and multiple layers of learning. We manage to achieve mastery across multiple industries, arts and fields of study.
We are never dull, not 'generalist' and certainly never stop learning. ‘The greatest scientists are artists as well.’ - Einstein A Polymath (from the Greek, ‘having learned much’ and the Latin, ‘ homo universalis’, or the ‘universal man’) is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems and we Polymaths are very different. According to many people, I am a modern Polymath.
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