Education Bookcast

97. The Polymath by Waqas Ahmed

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Dec 7, 2020
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class
04:11 • 2min
3
Encouragement of the Polymath
05:41 • 2min
4
The Eating of the Samurai
07:42 • 3min
5
Polymaths - A Culture of the Many-Sided Potential
10:34 • 4min
6
How to Understand Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence From Different Perspectives
14:45 • 2min
7
The History of Western Philosophy
16:41 • 4min
8
What Happened in Central Asia?
20:54 • 2min
9
The House of Wisdom in Baghdad
23:17 • 1min
10
Polymaths Quote - The Song China Bit
24:29 • 4min
11
The Rich Athens Hypothesis
28:08 • 2min
12
The Polymath
30:12 • 2min
13
The Myth of the Specialists
31:58 • 3min
14
Specialisation Is Not the Norm, but the Exception
34:31 • 2min
15
The Rise of Specialisation in the Enlightenment
36:51 • 4min
16
What Is Encyclopedic?
41:12 • 2min
17
I've Got 151 Biographies in My Notes
43:24 • 4min
18
Almost Everyone Is a Polymath
47:11 • 2min
19
The Polish Clergyman
49:15 • 2min
20
Copernicus Was Really Into Astronomy
51:41 • 2min
21
Is There a Polish Intellectual in the 15th Century?
53:54 • 2min
22
The Great Alchemist, Isaac Newton
55:25 • 4min
23
Then There's the King of the Marley Empire, Mansu Musa
59:42 • 2min
24
Is This a Real Place?
01:01:39 • 3min
25
The National Hero of the Philippines, Jose Rital
01:05:02 • 4min
26
What's in the Rest of the Book?
01:09:12 • 2min
27
Is Specialization a Necessity for Survival?
01:11:10 • 4min
28
Anders Ericsson's 10,000 Hour Rule
01:15:37 • 2min
29
Is There a Filtering Problem With IQ?
01:17:40 • 4min
30
Is There a Relationship Between IQ and Personality?
01:21:21 • 2min
31
Are You Low on Openness to Experience?
01:23:09 • 4min
32
What Is Syncretic Perspective?
01:27:34 • 2min
33
Aristotle's Anaconda Veda Argument Is a Good Idea
01:29:12 • 2min
34
How Polemathy and Creativity Are Related
01:31:32 • 4min
35
Are You 25 Times More Likely to Win the Nobel Prize?
01:35:23 • 2min
36
What I Learned About Polymaths
01:37:32 • 2min