Does anyone else on /sci/ wish to become a Renaissance Man?

NEET thread?
NEET thread.

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yes, also neet

I'm also good at using google.

Overrated jacks of trades. I'm dedicated myself to only a few subjects, else you'll never be the top

It's possible if you can manage to dedicated all of your life to knowledge. Given that you are on 4chin, that may not be the case with you. Intelectuals are dying because no one can manage to be well rounded while also managing to seriously contribute to a field.

I've literally mastered Philosophy, Literature and Mathematics and I'm only 20 years old.

All thanks to ebooks and Wikipedia. Thanks God!

i respect your ambition. good luck in life my friend, maybe one day you'll have a great discovery in your search for the truth.

>>8589652
I think that any man or woman who tries to spread himself/herself that thin will fail to gain an in depth and intuitive grasp of any of the fields they attempt to become proficient in.

>>8590613
>I think that any man or woman who tries to spread himself/herself that thin will fail to gain an in depth and intuitive grasp of any of the fields they attempt to become proficient in.

>he actually thinks this in an age of internet communications and mobiles in everyone's pockets


It's easier than ever, friendo.

>>8589652
yes

>>8590613
in the pursuit of knowledge, you'd start to realize that all these topics are interconnected, and to attain a total understanding, you'd need to know about a wide variety of subjects

are you legit retarded? there is not a single human who is capable of being able to master all of scientific subjects unless they were born geniuses, get a life faggot.

It's a lot more difficult nowadays cause the new stuff requires so much more background knowledge that it's impossible to be an expert in many fields and contribute to the cutting edge topics.

Yes, but my works are a bit more ancient than ye.

I'm working my way through Archimedes' Book of Lemmas, shortly to be followed by his Cattle Problem and then Appollonius' of Perga's On Conics.

I'm also reading Keynes' General Theory, and quite frankly this is an intense son of a bitch.

>>8590581
Hmmmmm not sure if..

>>8589652
Human knowledge has become far too specialized and compartmentalized for becoming a polymath to be feasible anymore. You will fail.

>>8589652
Waste of effort. Nobody hires jacks of all trades.

>>8590544
Yeah, and neither will you.

>>8590618
thats when the breaking points gets clear

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Tbqh famalam I too want to be renaissance man. I've always been a triple threat between sports, physical sciences, and music. But I wish to one day master history and classical literature. What are some good books that aren't just memes?