I was preparing for my day focusing on elements of a business model to help homeowners facing foreclosure make the best of their situation. I have been using the http://ted.org site to pick up my day by listening to short inspiring videos. Here is a list of the videos I have seen from that program so far.
Today, I viewed a talk by "Wofford College president Ben Dunlap (who) tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and lifelong learning."
Ben Dunlap is described as a true "polymath" (see definition below). The term reminded me of Dad with the bonus of Mr. Dunlap's focus on Hungarians also reminding me of Dad. Dad spent a lot of time with and loved a community of Hungarian artists in New York.
A polymath (Greek πολυμαθής, polymathēs, "having learned much")[1] is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath (or polymathic person) may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable. Most ancient scientists were polymaths by today's standards.[2]
Dad was a polymath. A picture into his world came when I was helping, with my sibs, to clear out the folks home of over 50 years and turned over a business card that had Dad's handwritten notes from the mid 1930's. He had written "look up these......"
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