How to Become a Polymath
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- Becoming an autodidact or polymath has never been easier.
Follow these simple steps and you'll enjoy being a modern polymath very soon.
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I love how you explain what a polymath is in an academic way “on paper” so to speak… my experience of the education system is very different than yours. One semester in high school I got 5 D- grades and one F this was right before being expelled! I have been successful in business, I’m an excellent cook, I’m a successful stock option trader, I’m a general contractor and built 6 custom homes, I can operate heavy equipment, I am also a welder/ fabricator and I have several other interests I would like to pursue. I think experiencing and doing the thing is a much better way to learn. For me this has always led to the next thing. Thanks for your video I look forward to hearing more!
Now, I understand why I'm a lifetime learner at 69. Almost everyday for twenty years I memorized students names as part of my lesson plan as I walked into the classroom. It was very cool for the kids to see.
Brilliant!
Yes, it always blew my students away back when I was teaching that I knew all their names.
When you switch to another topic on audiobook to give yourself a mental break from what you're mainly studying the day, can that book be something fictional? Or vice versa?
I certainly switch to fiction as part of my own interleaving.
However, it's rare that I read fiction without some kind of purpose. If I want to be entertained, I go for a walk, play a card game (with physical cards) or practice card magic, play the guitar, etc.
One problem I've been facing is what exactly to study. I worry that maybe the subject I want to study is too broad, or maybe it's too obscure to be useful. Do you have any ways of picking your disciplines?
You might find the vision statement training I gave here useful for determining what to study:
th-cam.com/users/liveMFz31HpVkj0
Being Bipolar has naturally made me a polymath. Nine years of college and 2 years of Navy Nuclear Power School all without a degree. I learned chess to 1500 and was successful at online poker and many other things. And then I came down from my Manic Episodes and dropped things. Oh well. I know lots about lots of things I shouldn't know about. This video is important for me. I really need to get on a structured program.
Structure has been important for me as well. As much as I can get.
Best of luck to you.
I’m curious what you mean by “shouldn’t know about” 😂
Anthony, thank you so much!! I can’t wait for this, one! (I go around calling myself a “shitty polymath” to deflect from accomplishing anything while explaining my eccentricities lol)
I just finally signed up at your website, I was trying to find a way to pay for something because I’ve been casually annoying you with random stuff for months
But I found SO mUCH awesome free stuff and I couldn’t even find something for sale 😂❤
Thank you for all the work you put in just to help people expand their capacities🎉
You remind me of my genius uncle if he weren’t wrong about literally everything lol
My uncle-hood has finally arrived!
Thanks for all your wonderful comments and looking forward to hearing from you more in the year to come. Happy New Year!
Manufactured curiosity exactly even when you naturally are, thank you.
Good point: You can easily pile on more of the curiosity you already have.
Great suggestion for enhancing one's natural state - thanks!
This topic and video helps me a lot even though I am a polymath who learning engineering, mathematics, music, literature, science, arts, politics, theology and etc. Thanks for your info that added my new foundation to continue to explore anything.
My pleasure.
Anthony further you'd like to see covered on the channel?
Are you self-learning all of this?
My studies are deeper than I expected from esoteric to actual rituals. But I can’t pin point my subjects but even if I read anything connected to my studies I grow spiritually at the same time. Our life is an actual game but we’re in control. It’s either you want to play a fun game or a horror game. Thank you for this now I’m getting polymath books
Happy polymathing!
Found your very cool channel😊... I cultivate a mindset that the "shoshin"-mindset of japanese Zen. It means an attitude of a beginner, open, curious. For me, every day is day 1, week 1.
Fantastic - thanks for mentioning and for giving us unfamiliar with this something new to learn. 🙏
Hello, Anthony. Thanks for the insightful video. It has inspired me to be more open to learning new things. Often, when I feel like I know a lot, I become complacent and lazy. But after watching this video, I’m motivated to become more disciplined and organized in pursuing my interests. I have a passion for many subjects, including programming, biology, history, politics, languages (my favorite), chess, physics, math, engineering, music, and more. Thanks again for your channel. I wish you continued success. Hugs from Brazil!
Thanks so much for your post and great about your decision to get more disciplined. Bring it on!
I have never heard of this term. If someone had asked me what it is, I might have said it is a person who knows many levels of math. I suspect that could be a functional definition of a person who know math at many levels.
How much of this is inherited trait? I think of my dad, who was building an airboat of his own design. I was in the 1st grade and he had a problem that he spent hours trying to solve. I looked at the problem for about 2 minutes and gave him the solution. He was stunned. So inherited?
Are philosophers more likely to be polymaths? Critical thinking is at the core. Too bad we have so little of it now.
I just have questions now and I love this video.
I don’t know if there ate answers to these questions, but my dad is also a genius builder. I have inherited none of those manual skills, but talking with him has provided great exercise in critical thinking.
I want to do everything and nothing. I want to do what I want went I want when I’m interested in it. When I lose interest I want to move on to the next until I’m interested again. Why am I like this?
I couldn't say without speaking with you about it to get more details.
Often, people haven't spent enough time on crafting a vision so they can push through the obstacle of losing interest.
Here's a training many people have told me they found useful:
th-cam.com/video/MFz31HpVkj0/w-d-xo.html
Some of the responses I've received from this video are in my book The Victorious Mind, which you might also find useful.
All my nephews are this way. I think it is a mild form of ADHD, attention deficit due to the practice of our devices. The longer your attention is exposed to these devices the shorter your attention span becomes. As the years go by reality will become distorted. So limit your time from devices and engage in real manifestations.
I have been wanting to become a polymath, but whenever i try to learn something for example it is mental math, months im good at it when i trying it to learned again i seemed become worse at that?
One of the balances to strike is not leaving learned topics so long that they start to fade. Interleaving can help with this:
th-cam.com/video/3U34nJGuFvQ/w-d-xo.html
You gave the secret. Are you polymath? Just asking. By the way, Thanks..
According to the dictionary definition. 🙏
24 seconds in video and I am already in love with your content, by the good choices of your words.
Thanks for your kind words. Anything you'd like to see covered going forward on the channel?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM We can target students, about how they can study effectively, and remember most of it, it'll increase traffic for your channel and help many others.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Very valuable advice, thank you! Also, I feel your mic has improved compared to last time I listened to you back in summer.
Thanks for checking this one out.
Yes, even though it doesn't look that great, this mic works a lot better than the previous one. I also have finally been able to rebuild my library, and that has reduced the echo substantially.
One big question How can we tell if we’ve become a polymath?
Because polymathy is involved, it's multi-layered, but ultimately very simple, you will display:
Diverse knowledge and skills: You have expertise or significant proficiency in multiple, often unrelated fields.
Intellectual curiosity: You have a strong desire to learn about various subjects and continuously expand your knowledge.
Ability to connect ideas: You can draw insights by linking concepts from different disciplines.
Adaptability: You can quickly grasp new concepts and apply your knowledge to solve problems in various domains.
Creative thinking: You often generate innovative ideas by combining knowledge from different areas.
Ongoing learning: You actively pursue knowledge in multiple fields throughout your life.
Practical application: You can apply your diverse knowledge to real-world situations or create tangible outputs.
Recognition: Others may acknowledge your expertise in multiple areas.
For more, please see this video on the matter:
th-cam.com/video/We0idHm3QlA/w-d-xo.html
I fucking love ur channel and ur book " victorious mind" , ive listened to it multiple times and have finally developed my first memory palace. I have two questions, first why dont you go live anymore ? I love ur prior eps and have also listened to some them multiple times especially the ones concerning meditation and depression...fellow suicidal thoughts guy here. Second is there any possibilty of u reaching out to Sam Harris to be on his podcast? Ive been using the waking up app for two years and it has truly helped with my "unvictorious mind"at the moment. I think it would be a phenomenal meeting of the mind . I will also advise who ever works at the app to get u on, im pretty sure im not alone in this desire...keep up the wonderful work that ur doing, some of ur lives have helped me in some dark times..your book also has giving me hope, and once again thank you👍👍
Glad that I've been able to help in some way!
There are lots of reasons I stopped live streaming, but most videos now launch as premieres and I hang out in the chat. It's generally more effective, though I do live stream once a month still in the "MMM Mastermind" group which is sometimes called "The Inner Circle."
Thanks for the kind words regarding getting on this podcast. I currently make no effort to suggest myself to be on any shows, but perhaps if enough other people do, something like that might happen.
In the meantime, I've actually scripted a new guided, memory-based meditation that I'll probably release soon. It will work just fine on any app that streams audio. Please stand by and warm wishes for an amazing year ahead!
En ünlü polymath
Hello Anthony and thank you for your video. I am going to share my experience for people like me,
experimental people. And sorry for my english. I listen to it, I read it, never write, never speak.
I had trouble with learning japanese, with passing more diploma in maths for myself, and trying to
pass on math to my students (i am a maths teacher for teenager between 11 and 15 years olds, it’s
« le collège » in France). I ended up on youtube watching video about PAO system and mind palace
for counting cards. I gave it a try and in less than 2 months and with little work, I etablished my
record at 172s. At the beginning I planned on giving myself to the end of this year 2023 to pass
under the 180s, but now my record is 150s, and i am still under 2 months of training.
So I went for foreign language. I never learn spanish so by combining vizualisation and memory
palace I am trying to learn only vocabulary. In less than 10 hours of work I can give 423 words over
the 550 I have learned without watching the french part (nor the spanish part) just by parcouring my
stories and my palace. I « encode » about 100 words in 40 minutes, then i need 20 minutes to pass
them all once again. Then, if I respect my forgetting curve, i need less and less time.
I started without a palace, but I write stories down with all the association I was making in my mind
to remember the word and his meaning. It went fine for the first 100 words and then I had trouble
making association and remember it. I think it was because I let to much time between repetition.
Then i created a palace. I took my childhood house and the entire village and I planned on creating
a palace with 500 loci and put 4 words by loci, creating a story on each loci, connecting the 4
words. For now, it’s too much. I remember 2 or 3 words, rarely the 4th.
I tried to put 4 cards in 1 loci to, to go faster by putting on other object on top of the PAO, kind of a
PAOO, didn’t work for now.
So I went back to 3 words per loci. Not easy either because it’s only noun in my 2000 words the list
I find. It still feels confusing.
I will finish my 2000 words in spanish, then I will go for grammar during a months, adding a bit of
vocabulary each week (verbs!) and do my active recall on the 2000 first ones.
For the third and last month, I am going to do a « immersion » by watching a lot a spanish with
subtitles. That’s actually how I « learned » english. I went to bad at highschool to the first group in
College, just by watching all the Friends and Scrubs episodes in english with subtitles in a week or
two (don’t remember). But I had the basics in voc and grammar to do so and absorb the dialogues.
Then I will be starting everything over with german wich I’ve learned when I was young (instead of
spanish) but almost forgot everything. This time, I will prepare a list of vocabulary in a NVN
system « noun, verb, noun » so my stories, hopefully, would be easier to remember.
Because sometimes, with 4 words by loci, I remeber my story, by not for wich word I did it, or how
the word is prononuce, or I have the idea of the french word, but cant’ connect his translation with
my picture.
Since I am experimenting, I decided not to write down my storires anymore. Too much time. It
does’nt feel necessary. Because if you do your active recall, you don’t look at your invention, so if
you forgot it, watching your invention or the word, it changed nothing because your association
comes back looking at the spanish word.
A other problem is finding association between the spanish word, his translation, and the image you
can make to remember it. Now I am also trying number. I am sharing my idea, I hope it’s not a bad one.
I took my P of heart from my P-A-O system for card, 10 of heart is my 0, the ace is 10 the 2 is 20
etc.
Then I took my A of clubs so that 11 is my P ace of heart and the A of the ace of club, 58 is my P 5
of heart, and 8 is my A 8 of clubs.
70 is my P of 7 of heart, and 0 is my A of 10 of clubs.
This system goes from 00 to 99.
Then I took my O of spades to have a system from 000 to 999.
518 is a colleague playing soccer with maraca.
I am trying now to add a special cloth to do a PAOC system.
5181 is my colleague playing soccer with maraca and a hat on his head.
5189 is my colleague playing soccer with maraca and wearing overalls.
I am afraid I will create some kind of interference with this system… I am learning my phone
contact number to see what will happen.
I hope all of this can give motivation and ideas for others.
Best regards,
EK.
Yes, I suggested something that I believe is similar here:
th-cam.com/video/ogtVQ48VgC4/w-d-xo.html
Thanks a lot for your advice!
Amazing channel!
Thanks for being part of the mission to help spread mental literacy around the globe!
Hey! Surprisingly I wrote a book about that and a chapter is called exactly that.
Cool!
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Thank you! I appreciate the time you take to share your knowledge with us.💕
So nice of you to say so!
Are you currently weaving together any polymathic learning projects?
Not yet, but I'm very interested!
here i am again. recently i have been going back to zero. i used to be good at speaking publicly but now i have having a hard TIME SPEAKING IN PUBLIC that seems like im stuttering worse than other peers (i used to be good at sepaking ever since i was in elem) idk it started to get better at writing. INSHORT I CANT BE BOTH AAAAHGH
I would challenge that. Sometimes we go through hard times. Keep going, break the skills down, set goals the smaller steps you need to master and if you fall down again... reassess and keep going.
More challenges are coming, so the sooner you start practicing getting back at it, the better.
Does this way of looking at things make sense and help you out?
another work of art in words and ideas
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So basically pick the one you like the most and master it?
Actually, no. The Like/Dislike monster cannot win if you want to be a true polymath.
More on the Like/Dislike monster and conquering him here:
th-cam.com/video/kvtYjdriSpM/w-d-xo.html
I know someone who has learned many languages and engineered military equipment. He has mastered political philosophy and has a blog. He is a prominent member of a local party, and is a logical theorist in response to Darwinian materialism and has many articles and lectures. He is self-taught and said he wanted to study linguistics
Sounds like a wonderful contact to have. Do you have any similar learning plans yourself? Linguistics is indeed fascinating.
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM I will try I will try. I am interested in anarchist political philosophy and write in this field. I love physics and mathematics. I write short daily articles in a literary and magazine style. I love reading books in various fields. Knowing that I did not complete my studies due to financial circumstances, allow me to say that you are one of the few who are still aware of the importance of being a multicultural person and I have no doubt that you are one of the great people who guide us to more knowledge.
can we talk in private ? You sound like an amazing person, it would not be wrong for me to say that you are the one type of person I really want to discuss with. By the way, I don’t force you or anything, be free to refuse if you don’t want to. But I just think it could be interesting to talk, I have many similarities with you.
If you are a familiar with the forum of LessWrong would you recommend it to learn critical thinking? I’m asking because a friend recently asked me to give it a try since it enforces rationalism and I’m looking to get into it
I’ve read some articles on LessWrong, but not the forum so cannot say. It would be fascinating if reading a forum could teach critical thinking without any external reading needed, that’s for sure.
If you search ‘critical thinking books’ on my blog, there are several recommendations. And reading as much as possible and taking care to think reflectively is highly recommended, always with caveat emptor in mind as we carpe diem.
I’d also suggest getting in plenty of writing about a variety of issues into action, as well as many verbal discussions as possible.
Does this way of looking at things make sense and help you out?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM Well, it specifically refers to a series of essays called Sequences, which conveys the essence of rationalism or so I’ve been told. I was planning on doing external reading regardless of the content but I don’t know if the rationalist approach, even though it goes hand and hand with critical thinking, would lead to a different path than a more traditional approach of raw critical thinking.
And yeah I’ll definitely check the blog out when I get free time.
Thank you for sharing this video. I have for long have grand plans in my mind, but my problem tends to be procrastination, which I am working on. Greetings from Norway.
Procrastination can be beat. Power to you!
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM, and by Durin’s name I will beat it thusly!
Does a memory palace have to be inside? Or could it be a biome? Like a wetland with a wooden walkway with a number of short offshoots, each one is different. And you can drive a mind car to your beach, or a mountain, desert, etc?
All of these options are possible. I usually don't use them because they are relatively indistinct in my mind compared to walls and corners.
Ultimately, it comes down to your goal. I only use outdoor locations when I'm certain that they won't be fiddly. There's an example of the one outdoor Memory Palace I used for my TEDx here:
th-cam.com/video/gBvKFI7AlLE/w-d-xo.html
Does this additional resource make sense and my answer help you out?
Hey Anthony I am curious on how I can apply memory palaces to my life? I am really focusing on learning how to learn this year. However Is a memory palace usable in all areas? Ie i want to learn spanish, piano, and how to read faster, how can a memory palace make this better and increase my knowledge?
There are many applications.
I’m a musician myself and have a few videos about music in the FAQ section of the MMM Masterclass. It’s not the core focus of the program, though. Music is inherently mnemonic, so learning how to transform most instruments into Memory Palaces doesn’t take long.
Language learning is a strong use case for words and phrases in any language.
Then there are speeches and other verbatim texts, facts, numbers, anatomy and even fun applications like chess and card games.
I have a separate program for reading faster. Memory Palaces will help with one aspect of reading faster in particular, but there’s more to it than that.
One kinds of material do you want to read faster?
@@AnthonyMetivierMMM mainly being able to read for retention mainly non-ficition, psychology, philosophy, so being able to implement/ and use/ test over what I read at a higher level.
Great areas to be in.
Frankly, I'm not sure reading faster is always the ticket with topics like these. With philosophy in particular, I think Nietzsche got it right when he said that reading more slowly was the key.
I think the problem people tend to have with philosophy is not setting up the foundations first and/or not having enough international foundations. Work on that, and much else will snap into place faster through pattern recognition with the help of Memory Palaces for quickly absorbing key terms and figures.
Dear sir, how could i simply use moon as memory palace. I am weak in english, i watched your video but cannot understand because of my weak english.is there any back channel you could teach me?
How could i use moon as memory palace after hour and hour? And what's it variation gonna be?
Please check this video out and see if you can find a copy of the Alexander Dicsone texts in your mother tongue:
th-cam.com/video/9QF4AihKmbo/w-d-xo.html
Great video. 🙂
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Thanks again I appreciate everything that you do
You are so welcome - thanks as always for being part of the mission! 🙏
I am really waiting for this.
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Thanks it is a great discussion.
Thanks for checking it out!
Hello Anthony Metiever!I am a history student and I need your help!I learnt the method of loci and mnemonics and now I heard from others about photoreadind method!Do you think that this method can help me in learning historical textbooks/books?They tell us that we can read a book in 10 minutes by using this „photoreading"technique?I need your opinion about this situation!Thank you very much!
I've never heard or seen anyone demonstrate photo reading. Nelson Dellis and I just recorded something about how he's exposed people for trying to demonstrate this.
The weird thing to me is why people would use such a tired old metaphor. Why not shoot for the James Webb telescope reading technique?
I'll tell you one possible reason why:
Perhaps people using these techniques don't actually read enough to have an imagination enough to come up with more contemporary metaphors... and that's assuming they actually read at all.
Your thoughts?
Thank you, Anthony Metiever!The last question is how can I learn history book in detail fast?How to approach history using mnemonics?
I suggest not asking for it to be easier, but doing what it takes to get better with memory techniques.
Here's a tutorial to get you started on dealing with historical information in books:
th-cam.com/video/eIQRiqQFKQY/w-d-xo.html
Question can i combine image streaming with mind palace
And is it unlimited to have more mind palace like 100
Technically, using a Mind Palace is image streaming.
I don’t understand your second question. Please rephrase.
@AnthonyMetivierMMM what I saying is, can I have 1000 mind palace
Thank you In advance
I wouldn't do that myself, but there are no Memory Palace Police I'm aware of that would try to stop you.
@AnthonyMetivierMMM also when I'm visualize with my goal someone interrupt it, like I was driving a car and go to my mansion and then my thought or intrusive thought came in that I got hit by truck
If you dont know how to answer its okay
Very insightful. Thank you.
Thanks for checking this one out. Are you currently learning multiple topics?
INterleaving is key!
Yes, one of my fave of all accelerated learning tools. Why burn out when you can revive interest in a snap?
Persuasive.
Thanks so much for stopping by.
Any plans for polymathy in the year to come?