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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.13 — 77,738 ratings — published 2019
The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.27 — 356 ratings — published
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,037 ratings — published 1979
The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.86 — 395 ratings — published 2019
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,128 ratings — published 2021
Mastery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.26 — 47,866 ratings — published 2012
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.18 — 125,489 ratings — published 2017
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,665 ratings — published 2014
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.28 — 331,724 ratings — published 180
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,453 ratings — published 2011
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,344,015 ratings — published 2011
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.39 — 377,307 ratings — published 1880
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.05 — 148,777 ratings — published 2003
The Italian Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.71 — 329 ratings — published 1972
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.14 — 111,574 ratings — published 2020
Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,691 ratings — published 2018
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,560 ratings — published -350
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,168 ratings — published 2017
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.85 — 20,673 ratings — published 2014
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,275 ratings — published 1939
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.04 — 450,434 ratings — published 1997
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.22 — 416,825 ratings — published 2003
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.23 — 776,882 ratings — published 1966
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.97 — 116,112 ratings — published 2002
The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.17 — 886 ratings — published 2018
Biohacker’s Handbook Upgrade yourself and unleash your inner potential (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.65 — 383 ratings — published
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,049 ratings — published 2015
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.05 — 42,706 ratings — published 2012
Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.34 — 32 ratings — published 2005
Isaac Newton (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,534 ratings — published 2003
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.15 — 36,575 ratings — published 1998
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,767,179 ratings — published 1953
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.09 — 503,843 ratings — published 1968
The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.84 — 34,561 ratings — published 1980
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.01 — 295,493 ratings — published 1992
Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,835 ratings — published 1979
About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,963 ratings — published 1989
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,224 ratings — published 2001
The Anarchist Handbook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.24 — 994 ratings — published
Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,994 ratings — published 2021
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,163 ratings — published
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,341 ratings — published 2021
The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,363 ratings — published 2021
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,613 ratings — published 2019
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,027 ratings — published 2018
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.37 — 220,647 ratings — published 2017
Don't Do Stuff You Hate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.37 — 41 ratings — published
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,580 ratings — published 2017
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.37 — 48,897 ratings — published 2016
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,307 ratings — published 2017
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.
I'm not saying you're more intelligent than Aristotle, or wiser. For all I know, Aristotle's the cleverest person who ever lived. That's not the point. The point is only that science is cumulative, and we live later.”
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I'm not saying you're more intelligent than Aristotle, or wiser. For all I know, Aristotle's the cleverest person who ever lived. That's not the point. The point is only that science is cumulative, and we live later.”
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“Michelangelo was just 26 when he sculpted the David. The slab of marble he used was deemed unusable for 35 years. Why? Experience and age are not the same as creativity or competence.”
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