Author providedĮlon Musk ( who I write about here) has combined an understanding of physics, engineering, programming, design, manufacturing, and business to create several multibillion-dollar companies in completely different fields. We also have modern tech heroes like Steve Jobs ( who I write about here) who famously combined design with hardware and software.Įlon Musk has combined an understanding of physics, engineering, programming, design, manufacturing, and business to create several multibillion-dollar companies in completely different fields. But no one had ever studied them together and synthesized them into a new discipline until researcher EO Wilson pioneered the field of sociobiology in the 1970s. Modern polymaths go against the grain of this popular advice, building atypical combinations of skills and knowledge across fields and then integrating them to create breakthrough ideas and even brand new fields and industries where there is little competition.įor example, people have studied biology and sociology for hundreds of years. Since Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers, popularized the concept, many now believe that to become world-class in a skill, they must complete 10,000 hours of deliberate practice in order to beat the competition, going as deep as possible into one field. I define a modern polymath is someone who becomes competent in at least three diverse domains and integrates them into a top 1-percent skill set. Specialists, on the other hand, just focus on knowledge from their own field.
In another words, they bring the best of what humanity has discovered from across fields to help them be more effective in their core field.
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