Comments on: How to Become a Renaissance Man/Woman

By: Funchilde

Funchilde — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:34:04 +0000

Marelisa, I just found your blog and am so enjoying the nuggets of wisdom and jewels of knowledge, pearls of insight and inspiration. I particularly enjoyed this post and of course would like to add, that I believe Ben Franklin should/would qualify as well!

By: Funchilde

Funchilde — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:34:04 +0000

By: Patrick`

Patrick` — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:25:36 +0000

Dear Mare,

Any modern, living polymaths come to mind? In the male category there is Jonathan Miller. Suggestions for female candidates would be helpful. You can e-mail me at prkelly@hotmail.com.

By: Mare

Mare — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:52:03 +0000

@Urban Panther: I think the trick is to direct enough concentration and effort at one thing at a time that you get some level of expertise before moving on to the next thing. Other than that, I think that having knowledge in many different areas actually helps you learn new things (more neural connections or something along those lines).

By: Urban Panther

Urban Panther — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:44:23 +0000

So, my immediate reaction to this posting was “Huh, I always thought of myself as jack of all trades and master of none” and there is my very clever response already in Natural’s comment. Great minds think alike, Natural, or fools seldom differ?

Seriously though, I do have so many interests that I find it hard to push one right through to completely mastering it. Having just now examined all my interests/talents more thoroughly because of your inspiring post, they all seem to come under the category of creativity and art. Blogging allows me to pursue many of things you have listed. I learn, from reading other blogs. I mentor and pass along wisdom, hopefully in a humourous way on relationship ups and downs on my blog. And I push my limits of creativity through writing and photography. I think I have moved from Jack to Renaissance. Thanks!