My original intro

This is actually my second attempt at creating a blog having characterisitcally run out of gas during my first attempt. I had almost completely forgotten it. Recently I came back across it.
My intentions now are almost the same as the first time I attempted this so it seemed worth reposting...
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As reflected in the name of my blog I intend to use this place to explore ideas that are occupying my mind in a fairly random stream of consciousness fashion. I am not aiming for consistency or coherence. Many of the thoughts I intend to express here are embryonic. It is sort of a view into the engine room of my mind. a 'worldview-in-progress' that will never be complete. Therefore readers may find much which is less than elegantly thought out and even contradictory. While I won't fall back on Whitmans excuse that 'I contain multitudes' I do think it is true that unless you play with many ideas, take em apart and look under the bonnet it is next to impossible to truly grasp them or to come to informed opinions. I intend to write these entires FAST. That leads to more spontanaeity and generates more ideas.
So what kind of topics do I expect to find myself rambling about here? A pretty broad cross section. I like to think about most things. This is partly a reflection of genuine intellectual curiousity/restlessness and partly that of personal egotism. I have always admired the polymath, and aspire to be one myself. The notion of competence in multiple fields is one find immensely fascinating, whether intellectual as in the case of writers such as Asimov who wrote vast amounts covering history the bible, art and science or physical in the case of athletes such as Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders, guys who just plain won whether smacking baseballs or catching footballs. Probably the greatest polymath of alltime is Leonardo Da Vinci who stands out to my mind as the most complete example of excellence in multiple fields in human history
The benefits of such interdisciplinarity may be open to question. Fitzgerald, through the mouth of his hero Nick Carraway mocks the desire to become "...that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded-man' "commenting that "-life is much more successfully looked at from a single window after all."
There is a very good argument that the leveraging of individual aptitudes by focusing on those areas in which they produce the most efficient results is a far more rational way of achieving personal excellence.
MBAs talk about the 80/20 principle ('80% of the output flowing out of 20% of our actions) and a number of business bestsellers have recently been written arguing that 'strength building' is a far more successful paradigm than the development/minimising of weaknesses.
Of course it can also be argued that the ability to fully grasp the life lessons of multiple fields of inquiry leads to the ability to make a far broader range of mental connections and avoid the 'boxed thinking' inherent in the single-lens world view.
In the end personal aspirations are as much, an issue of life experience and and temperament as they are of rational thought.The passions that drive us are seldom wholly rational. The bottomline is that I am far more interested in the wood than the trees. There may be a distict disadvantage to nongeniuses such as myself spreading themselves too thinly, but I am too stubborn in my interests to care.
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