> I know incredibly smart people (engineers and other fields) who are It's the stereotypical professor super smart in one specific area but everything else is

> I know incredibly smart people (engineers and other fields) who are It's the stereotypical professor super smart in one specific area but everything else is a mess. Doctors can be like that too just ask an hospital IT person what doctors are like. I wish modern education inspired more polymaths aka "Renaissance man". People are forced to focus so tightly one one thing it becomes ridiculous. It's difficult but I think if we are raised that way and raise children that way it may become more normal. For myself I was into art as a child; drawing, painting, sculpture, crafts, photography. I also loved music and instruments. I found languages interesting my early to mid teens I invented my own writing system. Plus I have always made experiments as a child building things, or combing chemical compounds. But school pretty much forces you to pick one subject and that's that.