Welcome to Cosmic Teamwork.
I document my observations and tips about team formation - cosmic style.
Hope you have a nice visit!
Life patterns for prolific, polymathic people vary from those for deep specialists. Learn about the four basic patterns that can help you achieve your multiple dreams.
Problem Solved! How a small shift in thinking about team composition can help get past finger-pointing and get to root cause.
Frustrated by your lack of life progress? Feeling stuck in a box ? Gain insight on how to leverage the power of habits to light your own fire.
Learn about how words do actually hurt you physically and have the ability to trap you in an unwanted, unintended ritual. And start to think about how to work around what has happened to you.
Could it be that people with a polymathic “thought-style” could have a brain that possesses highly efficient circuits to combine memory, plus they have a really efficient habit-loop formation mechanism?
Savants are a different mind altogether. They were brought into the world to illuminate the brilliance of our brains’ capacity. There is no one type of Savant. Yet all are incredible glimpses into how our minds operate.
You are looking for a Polymath But remembering the one-way mirror. If you aren’t one, you might not be able to see one. Here are some tips.
"The secret to teaching kids to be polymaths comes from 4 things: train the body by doing sports, the creative mind thought art, scientific thinking through logic and problem solving and finally learn languages! This creates a very strong Neural-network in the brain that can be used for anything" --Hadear Marzooque
While may recruiters focus and bias towards hiring monomaths for roles requiring specialization, in many cases a Polymath or a scanner would be equally suitable for the role. Work to avoid bias towards monomaths in specialized roles.
So how do you build a functional team in a VUCA environment situation? First, pick your team leadership and associated process. Second, pick your specialists carefully to match your team leadership to avoid gaps.
In general, a polymath looking at a monomath looks through a one-way mirror. This ultimately creates communication conflict
A Polymath is a person whose expertise spans multiple disciplines at the level of mastery. They have an intense curiosity about many things just like a scanner does. However, they typically act on connecting the disciplines in multiple ways throughout their lives. They see the patterns across disciplines and use them to match an idea to a previously known idea.
Minds that can be described as scanners generally like the process of exploration of new things. They like to explore everything. They try out many different careers, and they “refuse to choose”
A specialist or monomath knows a lot about a single discipline or practice. And they know this to the exclusion of other things. They devote their lives to collecting information that fits neatly into one category alone and operating in that manner in all facets of their lives
