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Someone who got bored of being an expert at just one thing.
means A person with deep knowledge and skill across many different fields, rather than mastery of just one.
from From Greek 'polymathēs' — 'poly' meaning many, and 'manthanein' meaning to learn. It traveled through 17th-century scholarly Latin and English as a label for people like the great Renaissance all-rounders, back when one lifetime could still plausibly hold mastery of several sciences and arts at once.
- etymology
- greek for having learned much
- classic example
- da vinci painted, engineered, and dissected corpses
- modern myth
- specialization makes polymaths rarer, not extinct
- real skill
- connecting fields others keep separate