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Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then trying to bring those things into what you’re doing.
Steve Jobs
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History is filled with people of wisdom, many of them in the category of polymath. Today, we seem to be pre-occupied with creating narrow specialists. Classical education dealt with intelligence in a much different way than now. When you study a multitude of fields, you have to integrate your knowledge into a whole that makes sense.
A polymath is a person who has mastered multiple disciplines. He is a specialist and a generalist simultaneously. He has integrated knowledge. He can see a problem or a situation from multiple angles. He can provide creative solutions.
It is not the same set of disciplines for different polymaths. They master a set of disciplines with their particular uniqueness in talents. In classical education this was expected of each wise man. Our modern times tend to focus on too narrow a scope for specialization.
Intelligence is also a worthwhile interest to pursue, especially in this age.
Polymathy is not for everyone.