Genios

During the Renaissance, polymathy became part of the idea of the ‘perfected man’, the manifold master of intellectual, artistic and physical pursuits. Leonardo da Vinci was said to be as proud of his ability to bend iron bars with his hands as he was of the Mona Lisa.

We live in a one-track world, but anyone can become a polymath – Robert Twigger | Aeon Essays

Our age reveres the specialist but humans are natural polymaths, at our best when we turn our minds to many things

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