Do You Seek to be a Polymath?

Epsira · February 12, 2015, 11:02:19 PM

If so, what are your range of interests, and how are you going about learning them?

I've been focusing on my interests that allow me to save time in one way or another: literature and writing, Biology (Molecular biology mostly, but physics applies to my writing), meta cognition, and I'm uncertain what dream research would be considered, but neuroscience/psychology to some extent.
My other interests outside of this include coding and programming, engineering, sketching/drawing, martial arts, etc.

Recently I've designed a way to structure idealized curriculum for myself.

1.) Take mental goals or desired abilities and dissect them down to their core abstractions
2.) Localize abstraction to an area of the brain (Where is it in the brain, this gives visual representation for associative mapping of multiple cognitive regions)
3.) Research stimulation of respective brain area (how does it function in mental process)
4.) Build curriculum stimulating these areas

This method directly relates to increasing cognitive efficacy and association between differing brain areas.
It's about developing how to think before tasks as opposed developing thought arising from task completion. The latter happens regardless, the former offers more room for growth.

Yu · February 12, 2015, 11:03:40 PM

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Polymath

Um...huh?

Ushan · February 12, 2015, 11:03:51 PM

I'd rather just jump from interest to interest when they hit me.

Verbatim · February 12, 2015, 11:06:18 PM

Quote from: Yu on February 12, 2015, 11:03:40 PM

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Polymath
Um...huh?

someone who is an expert on basically everything

so like, da vinci
or... newton
or me

Doctor Doom · February 12, 2015, 11:06:31 PM

Quote from: Yu on February 12, 2015, 11:03:40 PM

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Polymath
Um...huh?

Apparently not.

Dustin · February 12, 2015, 11:08:35 PM

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Verbatim · February 12, 2015, 11:09:14 PM

Quote from: Dustin' on February 12, 2015, 11:08:35 PM

Not math; not science.

uh, no

i'm literally a master of everything

duh

Epsira · February 12, 2015, 11:09:17 PM

Quote from: Yu on February 12, 2015, 11:03:40 PM

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Polymath
Um...huh?

Someone possessing knowledge on a broad topic spectrum.
Like Leonardo da Vinci.
It doesn't seem as prevalent anymore, and I think it's because labor specialization from the industrial revolution changed our association with learning.
For the worse, as it exists.

Solonoid · February 12, 2015, 11:16:50 PM

I'm more the type for wise words than for hard data.

I'm enamoured with the beauty of this world and its contents, and while I seek to know more of it, I also understand that a degree of beauty lies in it's secrets.

Destati · February 13, 2015, 12:49:09 AM

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