Want to Be a Polymath Like da Vinci? Follow These Four Steps This is a guest post by Christopher Hutton of Liter8 Ideas. Polymath (noun) - A person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning. Polymaths aren’t born, they’re made. They are created by way of human patterns and practices that were copied from the years of Da Vinci and Michelangelo. This post will give you the four crucial steps you should follow when you’re trying to become a polymath. 1. A polymath is a person that knows many things. Determine what you want to be an expert in. It’s helpful if you set exact and specific goals for you to perform. A way of building a plan for personal growth is writing something like a bucket list. For example, I want to write a thorough journalistic treatise on the topic of psychology and economics. It’s also worth picking goals that span a number of realms. Have someone else offer suggestions. Experience and opportunity is always abound, if you only find it and grasp it. 2. But one should know what they are studying, and how trustworthy it is. 3. 4. Your Turn
Frugivore Frugivore seed dispersal[edit] Seed dispersal is important for plants because it allows their progeny to move away from their parents in space and time. The advantages of seed dispersal may have led to the evolution of fleshy fruits, which entice animals to eat the fruits and move the plants seeds from place to place. While many fruit producing plant species would not disperse far without frugivores, they can usually germinate even if they fall to the ground directly below the parent plant. Many types of animals are seed dispersers. Plant adaptations to attract dispersers[edit] There are a number of fruit characteristics that seem to be adaptive characteristics to attract frugivores. Frugivore adaptations for fruit consumption[edit] In order for frugivores to be good seed dispersers they must digest fruits without consuming a high proportion of the seeds. Plant mechanisms to delay or deter frugivory[edit] Plants invest energy into the production of fruits. Physical deterrents [6] Levey, D.
Multipotentiality Multipotentiality is an educational and psychological term referring to the ability of a person, particularly one of intellectual or artistic curiosity, to excel in two or more different fields.[1] It can also refer to an individual whose interests span multiple fields or areas, rather than being strong in just one. Such individuals are called "multipotentialites." On the contrary, those whose interests lie mostly within a single field are called "specialists." While the term multipotentialite can be used interchangeably with polymath or Renaissance Person, the terms are not identical. Leonardo da Vinci may be the best historical example of an acknowledged genius who struggled with the difficulties associated with multipotentiality. Other notable multipotentialites throughout history are Averroes, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, René Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton, and Aristotle. External links[edit] Notes[edit]
In Defense of Polymaths - Kyle Wiens by Kyle Wiens | 8:54 AM May 18, 2012 Polymath is one of those words more likely to show up on the SAT than in everyday conversation. But the reason we don’t use the word much these days has less to do with vocabulary than it has to do with practicality: there aren’t a lot of polymaths around anymore. In case you don’t have your pocket dictionary handy, a polymath is a person with a wide range of knowledge or learning. Still, while we admire the select “geniuses” that can do it all, we tend to disparage the regular folk who attempt to spread their knowledge around a little. But why? “It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard,” Angelou said to the Smithsonian. What’s more, in the digital age, learning has really never been easier — and not just for the “geniuses” that walk among us. Information is everywhere, and it’s often free. iTunesU gives your everyday-Joe an opportunity to get a free, virtual Ivy-league education from his couch. So, why aren’t there more of us polymaths?
Prosody (linguistics) "Prosodic structure" is important in language contact and lexical borrowing. For example, in Modern Hebrew, the XiXéX verb-template is much more productive than the XaXáX verb-template because in morphemic adaptations of non-Hebrew stems, the XiXéX verb-template is more likely to retain – in all conjugations throughout the tenses – the prosodic structure (e.g., the consonant clusters and the location of the vowels) of the stem.[2] Unique prosodic features have been noted in infant-directed speech (IDS) - also known as baby talk, child-directed speech (CDS), or motherese. Prosody is useful for listeners as they perform sentence parsing. Prosody is also useful in expressing (for speakers) and detecting (for listeners) sarcasm. Emotional prosody is the expression of feelings using prosodic elements of speech. Anger and sadness: High rate of accurate identificationFear and happiness: Medium rate of accurate identificationDisgust: Poor rate of accurate identification
Theory of multiple intelligences The theory of multiple intelligences is a theory of intelligence that differentiates it into specific (primarily sensory) "modalities", rather than seeing intelligence as dominated by a single general ability. This model was proposed by Howard Gardner in his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Gardner articulated seven criteria for a behavior to be considered an intelligence.[1] These were that the intelligences showed: potential for brain isolation by brain damage, place in evolutionary history, presence of core operations, susceptibility to encoding (symbolic expression), a distinct developmental progression, the existence of savants, prodigies and other exceptional people, and support from experimental psychology and psychometric findings. Gardner argues intelligence is categorized into three primary or overarching categories, those of which are formulated by the abilities. The different abilities[edit] Musical–rhythmic and harmonic[edit] Interpersonal[edit]
Polymath: ‘A Renaissance Man’ Know something about everything and everything about something T H Huxley The only thing that I know is that I know nothing Socrates Definition of polymath: [n] a person of great and varied learning There is an increasing demand for people who can work across boundaries and in many different fields: people who can understand the linkages and connections between the various disciplines of modern life. This web section on polymath explores the connotation ‘A Renaissance Man’ and the relevance of wisdom to current life. The Renaissance man (or woman) knows a great deal regarding a variety of topics and is accomplished in areas of both the arts and the sciences: everything from how to gain weight; to how to take care of legal work without a lawyer. It was thought a Renaissance man should - • Be able to defend himself with a variety of weapons, especially the sword Wisdom Wisdom is the ability to make sound choices, good decisions--the best decision. What is a polymath? What is a polymath? top
Syntactic ambiguity Syntactic ambiguity arises not from the range of meanings of single words, but from the relationship between the words and clauses of a sentence, and the sentence structure implied thereby. When a reader can reasonably interpret the same sentence as having more than one possible structure, the text meets the definition of syntactic ambiguity. In legal disputes, courts may be asked to interpret the meaning of syntactic ambiguities in statutes or contracts. Different forms of syntactic ambiguity[edit] Globally ambiguous[edit] A globally ambiguous sentence is one that has at least two distinct interpretations. Locally ambiguous[edit] A locally ambiguous sentence is a sentence that contains an ambiguous phrase but has only one interpretation. One example of a local ambiguity is "The cat jumped over the fence stretched." Examples[edit] The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose. — Henry VI (1.4.30), by Shakespeare John saw the man on the mountain with a telescope. Who has the telescope?
Gifted education Gifted education (also known as Gifted and Talented Education (GATE), Talented and Gifted (TAG), or G/T) is a broad term for special practices, procedures, and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented. There is no standard global definition of what a gifted student is. In 2011, the National Association for Gifted Children published a position paper that defined what a gifted student is. The term "gifted," in that position paper, describes individuals who demonstrate outstanding aptitude or competence in one or more domains. An "aptitude" is there defined as an exceptional ability to learn or reason. History[edit] Classical era to Renaissance[edit] Gifted and talented education dates back thousands of years. Sir Francis Galton[edit] Lewis Terman[edit] At Stanford University in 1918, Lewis Terman adapted Alfred Binet's Binet-Simon intelligence test into the Stanford-Binet test, and introduced intelligence quotient (IQ) scoring for the test.
Project Polymath: Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Education for a New Renaissance Quaintrelle Sporty Parisian dandies of the 1830s: a tight corset helped one achieve his silhouette. The man on the left wears a frock, the man on the right wears a morning dress Though previous manifestations of the petit-maître (French for small master) and the Muscadin have been noted by John C. Charles Baudelaire, in the later, "metaphysical" phase of dandyism[5] defined the dandy as one who elevates æsthetics to a living religion,[6] that the dandy's mere existence reproaches the responsible citizen of the middle class: "Dandyism in certain respects comes close to spirituality and to stoicism" and "These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking .... Etymology[edit] Beau Brummell and early British dandyism[edit] Another prominent dandy of the period was Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay, the Count d'Orsay, who had been friends with Byron and who moved in the highest social circles of London.