![]() Sure, polymath concepts sometimes make the news on top publications, like this article from 2012 “In defense of polymaths” published on the Harvard Business Review. The problem with this line of thought is that it’s a self-reinforcing circle: this society values specialists, dismisses the value of polymath, which makes the way specialists are measured the way everyone is measured, thus making polymaths even more dismissed because they have a harder time stacking against a way to value people based on specialist metrics only. How could one be as good as someone that is a specialist? That’s the baseline message. ![]() “Surely you can’t do things as well as them”. Inevitably, this message also mean that if you can do many things, you aren’t good enough. Specialists are the most valuable people in the framework of this society, and this message is constantly pushed across all media. Our society has a clear form of rejection for people that are able to do many things well, while there’s constant praise for specialists. Emilie Wapnick (2015) Why some of us don’t have one true callingĪs a co-author of the Manifesto Ibridi I couldn’t agree more with Emilie. And you might feel like there’s something wrong with you. You might feel like you don’t have a purpose. ![]() But what if you’re someone who isn’t wired this way? What if there are a lot of different subjects that you’re curious about, and many different things you want to do? Well, there is no room for someone like you in this framework. ![]()
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