Why aren't you a polymath?

Why aren't you a polymath?

Because I hab boobies.

I already have several scientific interests. But since I won't be able to make a living of it and since math is not my passion nor am I good at it it seems stupid to call yourself that.
And borrowing some quality textbooks made me realize there's still a lot of basics I still need to know.

Hit the gym, bro.

I don't like math

> the "i'm not good at math" meme

if you're not an absolute brainlet you can start to learn. a job in STEM is one of the only dignified places to work besides blue collar labor (the other places being bureaucrat office shit jobs)

>besides blue collar labor
le noble proletariat meme

Because the amount of information required to be an expert in any field has increased by such an amount it's literally impossible to be one.

Not hard to be an expert at physics in the time before gravity was discovered.

>its not my passion

stop with this meme, very few people end up with this holy grail life where they get to practice a hobby for a living.

IM PICKLE RICK

This

Knowledge is too specialised now for polymaths to be possible

Jobs in stem require advanced degrees. In the US, this will require $50k of debt, minimum. That's before any sort of job guarantee, and before living expenses for the time you spend studying. Either you work full time and struggle through partial differential equations in the evenings, mentally exhausted from work, or you go 6 digits into debt.

No excuse not to spend Sundays studying though.

I smoke cigarettes while looking sad and world-weary. Isn't that the same thing?

you mean like the 17 year olds over at /rym/?

>a job in STEM is one of the only dignified places to work besides blue collar labor
absolutely no chance you've ever worked blue collar jobs

According to Wiki, "the idea of the polymath was expressed by Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), in the statement that "a man can do all things if he will" Back in those days, being well versed, and having an expertise in the arts, science, philosophy, theology, languages, etc. was required.

What would be the requirements to be considered a polymath today? Would a basis of the classic nature be sufficient, or would that be de-emphasized in favor of technological skills?

Dropped out of school at 13.

ha ha ha
wew lad, how much you've betrayed yourself by admitting to that

I am.

this is a good thought process

I was trying to use my intuition to discover people who I would consider as modern polymaths, post 1800s when most people consider the end of polymaths.

Erwin Schrodinger is one candidate, Nobel Prize winner, Physics genius, very sophisicated thoughts on Biology, he influenced the discovery of DNA, he wrote poetry and had a deep interest in philosophy. He was very skilled at everything he tried.

So, my intuition is rather close to the classic distinction, broad skill in barely overlapping disciplines (physics, philosophy, biology)

Robert Oppenheimer is another candidate. Highly skilled in Physics, learned Sanskrit to a very high proficiency, in early age aspired to be a fiction writer, skilled in management(manhattan project director)

sonemic will NEVER lunch