Becoming a Renaissance Person: Part II

Horizontal skills can be brought to bear on many different pursuits and disciplines. A high level of creativity and problem-solving skills as well as a will to learn can bring a genius a long way towards entering a new field. There are, however, many details that...

Becoming a Renaissance Person: Part I

Many artists have interests in more than one area. We can train our powers of skills acquisition and problem solving on many fields. There is the option to excel in multiple fields and there are examples of how this has worked out well for some. This is called being a...

The Direction of the World

Let’s be honest. Beethoven composed on a home entertainment system that had its heydayover a hundred years ago. Van Gogh worked in a field that was necessary to create likenesses until videoand film made it obsolete. Most people would rather check their social media...