Why Some People Are Impossibly Talented

After all, what value will we, as inadequately trained mechanistic specialists, have in a world of superintelligent machines that can easily out-specialise us? How will our conditioned, one-dimensional mind be capable of comprehending the complexity of twenty-first-century challenges? How can we emancipate ourselves from the multitude of unnecessar

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Many of the most successful people — both today and in the past — have demonstrated interest in more than one subject: Charles Darwin, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Richard Feynman, Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, and many, many more. A study of the most significant scientists in all of history uncovered that fifteen of the tw

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polymaths are often known as generalists, the knowledge of many disciplines is their speciality.