
The Polymath
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He is currently Artistic Director at The Khalili Collections -- one of the world's great art collections -- and is simultaneously completing his postgraduate studies in Neuroscience at Kings College, London.
Previously, Waqas was Global Correspondent at FIRST Magazine, where his exclusive interviews included world leaders in government, business and academia. He was also the editor of Holy Makkah, the first-of-its-kind exploration of the sacred city, which received praise from UNESCO, the Commonwealth and the Vatican.
Born and raised in Britain, Waqas has since lived in several countries across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. He has degrees in Economics (BSc, SOAS) and International Relations (MSc, LSE), but his real education came from the five years he spent travelling the world researching and writing The Polymath, his first book.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue: Marking 500 Years Since the Death of Leonardo da Vinci, the Archetypical Polymath
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 A Timeless People
- Patronage
- Laymen
- Women
- The 'Other'
- Encouragement
- The Myth of the 'Specialist'
- Chapter 3 Shapers of Our World
- Leaders
- King-makers
- Revolutionaries
- Intellectuals
- Educators
- Mystics
- Explorers
- Scientists
- Artists
- Entrepreneurs
- Humanitarians
- Chapter 4 The Cult of Specialisation
- The Evolution of Specialisation
- The Modern Education Crisis
- Employee Disillusionment
- Work-Life Imbalance
- Survival
- Twenty-First Century Complexity
- Machine Intelligence and the Relevance of Humans
- Chapter 5 Reconditioning the Mind
- Individuality
- Self-realisation
- Against the grain
- Self-sufficiency
- Human optimality
- Curiosity
- A natural trait
- Sources of knowledge
- The limitations of mind
- Multi-perspectivism
- Open-mindedness
- Knowledge for life
- Intelligence
- General vs multiple intelligences
- Critical thinking and common sense
- Social and emotional intelligence
- Versatility
- Switching lives
- Cognitive shifting and neuroplasticity
- Multifacetedness
- Diversifying experiences
- A thought-action mentality
- Managing time
- Creativity
- The creative force
- Hybridity
- Connections
- The art-science intersection
- Brain chemistry
- Unity
- The bigger picture
- Context
- Systems thinking
- Whole brain thinking
- Genuine specialists
- Navigating the information age
- Revolution
- Chapter 6 An Alternative System
- Society
- A community of minds
- True globalisation
- Art and culture
- Education
- Establishing the purpose of learning
- Encouraging creative autonomy
- Nurturing all-rounders
- A 'higher' education
- Self-learning
- A polymathic curriculum
- Occupation
- Revising the notion of 'work'
- The twenty-first-century career landscape
- Blessings from above?
- An opportunity
- Programming Our Future
- Chapter 7 Twenty-First-Century Polymaths
- A Vanguard of Disruptors
- Conversations with Living Polymaths
- Noam Chomsky
- F. Story Musgrave
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Douglas Hofstadter
- Jao Tsung-I
- Benjamin Dunlap
- Hamlet Isakhanli
- Raymond Tallis
- Daniel Levitin
- Ashok Jahnavi Prasad
- Nathan Myhrvold
- Tim Ferriss
- Chapter 8 Owners of Our Future
- Polymathy through Time and Space
- Select Bibliography
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Supplemental Images
- EULA
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