The Polymath Epidemic

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Love the idea of consciously dedicating ourselves to curiosity and everything else you explored in this video! Interleaving is a super interesting concept I'll definitely be exploring more. The school you mentioned sounds fascinating. I like the idea that we all have the potential to be a polymath. I think that's reassuring to those of us who find ourselves exploring lots of varying things, as well as those of us who've become stuck in one because of societal pressures. Great video!

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I like the idea that people with more free time are more creative! I think that automation and robotics can help our society to reduce the need for manual labor. This would allow more opportunities for those in poverty the time to be polymath.

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I related to this video so much! Didn’t even know Polymath was a thing but I agreed with all of this. I literally have thought about creating a place of learning and curiosity where it is communal learning. I’m so excited that there are others like this!!!

The research done on this video is well done, we need to encourage our generation more to explore things we don't know. Ignorance is common in all of us and having curiosity for things which we don't know only keeps us growing.

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Your drive and thought process is amazing.
Very much enjoyed this video!

Oh that's what it's called. Always wondered if there was a name nut yeah I fit this category. A focused life of learning and fitness makes me happy

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I 100000% agree a healthy body is a healthy and clear mind. Even the latest science on the gut-brain connection proves this. Brain fog and other mental focus issues could be linked to issues in the gut more often than not

Equilibrium is other word for the polymath. But......... jajaja.........

Everybody is a polymath, but we often fail to distinguish between "hard to learn" and "cannot learn." That's why most people fail to learn new things. They are comfortable basking in the fact that they are "experts" in a field or subject that may come naturally to them.

Become a Polymath autodidact!

Love your thoughts on this! I would add- Our institutions are not designed for individuals that have a wide variety of interests with endless curiosity, they're designed to mold individuals to fit neatly into one specific career so they become obedient consumers. Unfortunately for many, especially us polymaths, following the predetermined career path often leads to a life of mediocrity and many find themselves unfulfilled, or worse, depressed and jaded.

This sounds like ADHD. 🤔 No joke

This is a very nice resume if we understand polymath in the sense of Waqas Ahmed whom I consider an important researcher on the topic. But it should not be confused with people such as Leonardo de Vinci, and perhaps a few others that are grouped under the same term.
Polymathy as I understand it is not about having multiple interests and talents. Polymaths, as I understand them, pay higher attention to divergences and gaps in the world in relation to their own worldview. For a polymath the world is a puzzle and life is playing around with that puzzle, over and over again until adjusting reality and the image of it to each other. From this basic need, all other activities are derived, such as the need to understand things, to manipulate them, to test them, to know them, etc. in order to feel safe and loved in the world.

Mere interest and curiosity cannot explain the phenomenon. Even if it seems for others quite arbitrary, the polymath is not interested in a random number of subjects, but in topics that are meaningful to their problems to be solved or questions to be answered.

I have the intuition that polymathy is somehow related to a certain type of over-alertness, which is present from birth on in a child, and is rather problematic than beneficial, because it requires a certain training to deal with in order to avoid physical problems such as colics and psychological problems related to stress and paranoia. Further, I observe that it is a phenomenon of the mind that also influences the way we connect with the world. It enables those persons to communicate in a much broader way, but at the same time makes their common day social interactions more difficult, since they have little skills on social talking and other human tokens that express connectedness. As a result, many of those people feel very isolated and lonely. The lack of clear criteria seems not really helpful for real polymaths and those educating them.

very on point. i spent 10 years in unemployment with a dedication to curiosity

I may be at fault for not listening to the whole video, but polymathy and curiosity are different things, you become a polymath through curiosity, but that doesn’t mean that if you’re curious you’re a polymath. First of all, curiosity is a natural process that can’t be induced by a whim, it’s important to understand it. A polymath is a person who has specialization in multiple areas, there’s a meaning that this word carries that is hard to obtain, everyone throws it around nowadays interpreting it to their emotional content, which implies false virtue-signaling.

Yeah you should meet me and you will regret your words when you said everyone is polymath

I am a nearly 50 year old polymath. It’s so wonderful that there are people like you in the next generation, so aware so early.

Stephen Hough ( b.1961 )
British-born classical pianist, composer, writer, poet, novelist, professor, and painter.

The downside to being a polymath is having to deal with envy and jealousy.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful information. This is the kind of thing that will help save us all and help improve our relationship with each other.

The capitalist model only needed useful idiots. Hence the insane times and the atrocious consequences today.

Thank you for making this video. I have had to fight all my life against the label of being "Jack of all trades, master of none.". I am a 'jack of all trades', and a master of many. Which no one seems to appreiate.

Having knowledge about & expertise in a lot of things is an epidemic? Uhhh, okay. So people can't have knowledge or expertise anymore, is that what you're implying? You sound like you want the next generation to be entirely uneducated just from the title alone, Ms.

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