{"id":72,"date":"2019-04-24T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/?p=72"},"modified":"2019-04-24T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T21:00:23","slug":"polymath-vs-jack-of-all-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/2019\/04\/24\/polymath-vs-jack-of-all-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymath vs Jack of All Trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-73 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Abdulrhman-shared-a-drawing-with-you-26-1024x908.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Abdulrhman-shared-a-drawing-with-you-26-1024x908.png 1024w, https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Abdulrhman-shared-a-drawing-with-you-26-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Abdulrhman-shared-a-drawing-with-you-26-768x681.png 768w, https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Abdulrhman-shared-a-drawing-with-you-26.png 1406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Failed attempt to show the difference between polymath and jack of all trades (inspired by this <a href=\"https:\/\/polymathuniversity.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/ss-wed-music.jpg\">sketch<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: I am trying to wrap my unfocused self in some cool terms like \u201cpolymath\u201d \u2013 also when someone asks you in a job interview how you know such and such, don't mention the word polymath.<\/p>\n<p>I had breakfast today with my friend Ahmed, and the question around Polymath vs. jack of all trades came up. After googling for 2 minutes, it looks like:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack of all trades:<\/strong> Understand the basics in a lot of stuff ( &gt; 5 stuff ) no source of this number, I making this up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Polymath<\/strong>: Knows 2-4 stuff very well and he\/she expert in those fields.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My question: is polymath a jack of all trades + <a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/mental-models\/\">mental models<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The value of multidisciplinary is tremendous if it was dedicated to the right efforts. I believe a person with such capabilities and horizon will find a hard time finding the right opportunity and perhaps need to create it themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer: I am trying to wrap my unfocused self in some cool terms like \u201cpolymath\u201d \u2013 also when someone asks you in a job interview how you know such and such, don&#8217;t mention the word polymath. I had breakfast today with my friend Ahmed, and the question around Polymath vs. jack of all trades came &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/2019\/04\/24\/polymath-vs-jack-of-all-trades\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polymath vs Jack of All Trades&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,18,16],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-jack-of-all-trades","tag-mental-models","tag-polymath","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}