Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become an Extraordinary Autodidact (Learning how to Learn Book 9)

Beginner

Here, mindset and attitude mean everything. This means being willing to adapt when necessary, to become comfortable and even expert at navigating quickly changing parameters and shifting challenges.

Adaptable and Open

The truth is that successful polymaths are primarily driven by insatiable curiosity, a love for their fields, a yearning for mastery, creativity and expression—or a blend of all of these.

Chapter 2. The Polymathic Mind

This is called the Einstellung effect, and it essentially describes the man with a hammer who sees everything as a nail.

There is even a problem associated with having too much knowledge in one field, a dilemma of expertise that runs too deep.

The more polymathic you can be, the more functions you can inhabit, and the less replaceable you will become.

T-Shaped Problems