Polymathy

What is Polymathy?

Lessons from 30 Years of Research.

Polymathy in Organizations

How people, organizations and institutions learn and organize knowledge for action.

Beyond Grades: Temperament and Interests, but Not School Grades, Highlight Distinct Polymathic Learning Abilities

Polymathy relates to the exceptional learning abilities, in which individuals cultivate and coordinate Breadth, Depth, and integrative capability across multiple domains. It builds on mechanisms typically associated with intelligence, including …

The importance of activity‑specific differentiation between orientation‑related temperament traits

Consistent individual preferences for specific reinforcers and adherence to specific regulators could be observed in behaviour from a very early age. The neurochemical framework Functional Ensemble of Temperament (FET) identified neurochemical …

Creative Polymathy and the COVID-19 Crisis

It is increasingly argued that polymathy—vocational and avocational pursuits in multiple domains—is deeply associated with creativity and innovation, and that its development enables the creation of important bridges between otherwise fragmented, …

Scientific Polymathy: Is the era of the “Two Cultures” finally coming to an end?

Today, we face numerous problems, from global health challenges to environmental crises, whose range and scope go far beyond any single discipline. Consequently, our standard approach—the very segregationist thinking described in Snow's …

Polymathy: A New Outlook

This article aims to contribute to the study of polymathy by introducing novel perspectives on the phenomenon and by advancing a new model that systematizes the different variables involved in its development. The article is divided into four …