{"id":1,"date":"2023-07-13T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amanzaidi.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2024-10-11T05:40:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T05:40:04","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amanzaidi.com\/pt\/uncategorized\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the polymaths?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1\" class=\"elementor elementor-1\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4be1372a elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"4be1372a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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https:\/\/amanzaidi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-09-at-17.49.38_fd38efe7-768x383.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amanzaidi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-09-at-17.49.38_fd38efe7.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de49e93 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"de49e93\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p id=\"ember929\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">According to Hindu mythology, human beings will become shorter and shorter as the yugas (epochs) go by. For instance, in Treta Yuga, humans were supposed to be 8 feet tall; and by Kali Yuga, they are supposed to have shrunk to 6 feet, and will keep on shrinking as this yuga progresses.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember931\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Set the mythology aside for a moment and mull over the achievements per human over the last 700 years. You will be tempted to conclude that we have truly shrunk in that area.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember932\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Consider these women and men, most from a few hundred years ago:\u00a0Leonardo da Vinci,\u00a0Hypatia,\u00a0Mary Somerville, Maria Sibylla Merian,\u00a0Al-Biruni, Ibn al-Haytham, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Rabindranath Tagore, Alan Turing, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Linus Pauling. These humans were among the rarest of rare human subspecies &#8211; the polymath.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember933\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Each of these names made <em>significant contributions to at least three completely different fields<\/em>, which according to Waqas Ahmed, the British author of the 2018 book, &#8220;The Polymath&#8221;, is the definition of a polymath. For instance, Leonardo da Vinci, whose name we recall first when we hear the word polymath, made noteworthy contributions as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect! Hypatia, his senior by over 1,000 years, was a philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember935\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">You may have noticed that in our age, we are bereft of such polymaths. Why is this so, do you wonder? I have a hypothesis that rests on 3 points:<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember936\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>a<\/strong>. The concepts of focus and specialisation are the enemies of <em>polymathism<\/em>. As with everything else that\u00a0we celebrate today, focus may have benefits. But\u00a0focus is overrated. <em>By definition, it means a narrowing. Not a widening.<\/em> Blinkers are great if you&#8217;re a horse and your rider needs\u00a0you to be kept on the straight and narrow and not be distracted. But you have to decide whether you are a horse and are meant to be ridden by someone else. If you fancy yourself a human being of free will and polymath dreams, then curiosity and distractibility\u00a0are your friends.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember937\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Distractibility has been made out to be an evil thing. It is not. Academics who have studied his life have inferred that Leonardo da Vinci had ADHD. They say that <em>he switched \u201cfrom task to task,\u201d worked continuously throughout the night, sleeping rarely and \u201calternating rapid cycles of short naps and waking\u201d<\/em>. He famously took 14 years to finish the Mona Lisa, because there was no way he could sit at one task in a dedicated manner. All signs of a neurodivergent and chronodiverse brain. And yet, he is among the most prolific geniuses to have ever walked this planet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember938\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>b<\/strong>. We have been <em>demonising<\/em> attention-deficit, training people to <em>focus more<\/em> and trying to <em><strong>treat<\/strong><\/em> ADHD. When instead, we ought to be encouraging people with such neurodiverse\u00a0brains to indulge themselves and discover everything that they want to. This, I believe, is part of the reason why we don&#8217;t see polymaths emerging in our age.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember939\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>c<\/strong>. Waqas Ahmed also points out calls out &#8220;the cult of specialisation&#8221; and draws our attention to education systems that stifle polymathic nature by forcing learners to specialise in narrow topics. I&#8217;m inclined to agree; schools have for several decades forced children to choose science versus art versus commerce. How about schools that encourage kids to choose zoology, art, economics and drama?<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember940\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Author Robert Heinlein once wrote: &#8220;<em>A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. <\/em><em><strong>Specialization is for insects<\/strong><\/em><em>.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember942\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>Understanding Polymathy<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember943\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Now many of us may be tempted to look at this and say, &#8220;Hey, I have multiple interests too. I paint and run and bake and write. I&#8217;m a polymath too!&#8221; For you, I have this to offer: Chemist, author and art collector,\u00a0Carl Djerassi says:\u00a0\u201c<em>Nowadays people that are called polymaths are dabblers in many different areas. I aspire to be an intellectual polygamist. And I deliberately use that metaphor to provoke with its sexual allusion and to point out the real difference to me between polygamy and promiscuity.\u00a0To me, promiscuity is a way of flitting around. Polygamy, serious polygamy, is where you have various marriages and each of them is important. And in the ideal polygamy I suspect there\u2019s no number one wife and no number six wife. You have a deep connection with each person.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember944\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Consider da Vinci&#8217;s serious involvement with painting, writing, designing buildings and inventions, and you will notice that the involvement represents not a mere dabbling.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember945\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Also&#8230; Why is it important that the fields of achievement be distinct and that they be fields of study? Because otherwise, bodybuilder, actor, businessman and politician Arnold Schwarzneggar would be considered a polymath. Has he made noteworthy achievements in four fields? Yes. Is he a da Vinci or a Tagore? Ahem, no! Which is why traditionally, businesspeople are not included in polymath lists. Business is not a discipline. Also, businesses have traditionally over-valued specialisation and focus, and are therefore inherently anti-polymath.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember946\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Waqas Ahmed&#8217;s book argues that &#8220;<em>specialisation encouraged by the production lines of the Industrial Revolution is counter-productive both to the individual and wider society. It suggests that the complex problems of the 21st century need the versatility, creativity, and broad perspectives characteristic of polymaths.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember947\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">There have been a few people who have diverse interests and they end up creating things that aren&#8217;t just functionally useful, but also socially important or beautiful. Steve Jobs&#8217; interest in calligraphy and art led to the development of fonts on the personal computer and to attractive devices like the iPod. Richard Branson&#8217;s interests in music, media, aviation and space exploration have led him to found companies such as Virgin Music, Virgin Media, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Galactic. Certainly the world can use CFO&#8217;s who are also sociologists and psychologists and engineers who are also climatologists and artists. Just imagine what we could change if people were like that!<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember950\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><em>Sources<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember951\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polymath#Waqas_Ahmed<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember952\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/leonardo-da-vinci-adhd-scli-intl<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember953\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Competent_man<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember954\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">https:\/\/www.the-polymath.com\/the-last-days-of-the-polymath-the-economist\/<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember958\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><em>Aman works in leadership, talent and organisation development, teaches positive psychology at the TISS-ODA ODCP and coaches professionals on their strengths. His\u00a0attentionally-challenged\u00a0brain rejects the idea of single-minded focus and indulges his multiple interests such as history, archaeology, anthropology and paleontology. 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