Writing and Polymathy

I’ve recently read Learn Like a Polymath: How to Teach Yourself Anything, Develop Multidisciplinary Expertise, and Become Irreplaceable, by Peter Hollins, and thought it had quite an interesting overlap to do with writing.

It’s a short book, covering what polymathy is (and isn’t), the core idea of skill transfer, and how to break knowledge down and adopt the right mindset.

The short version, is that for practical reasons polymathy isn’t simply high intelligence (for many reasons, not t...