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My Work to become a polymath. ~ A very learned person.

✔ A polymath is not necessarily a brain.

✔ A ploymath does not think of his or herself as being particularly smart, only curious.

✔ Curiosity and interest are the true motivation for work.

✔ The polymath makes lots of mistakes.

✔ Based on truthful self knowledge, shared intelligence and the advancement of both science and the arts.

✔ Polymaths like to take trips to book stores, both new and used.

✔ They like to build up their own libraries.
 
✔ They like to build meaningful web pages.

✔ Polymaths also like to play with computers, to make things.

✔ They are often artists, and musicians.

✔ Polymaths especially like to write.

✔ Polymaths always respect the opinions and the person of others, especially teachers.

✔ There is no greater ignorance than the presumption to look down on someone else.

✔ You can learn something from almost anybody.

✔ Polymaths have common sense.

✔ The polymath takes command of his or her own intellectual development from an early age, usually no later than high school, and continues to learn throughout life.

✔ Basically, the polymath lifestyle is one of confidently taking on interesting challenges. It is also one of balance and perspective, viewing things from different perspectives as well as keeping a fundamental sense of conscious purpose.

✔ Polymaths never act like you know everything, even if you think that you probably do.

✔ Expertise is by its very nature self-limiting.


✔ The polymath tries to exercises all parts of the brain.

✔ Acquiring general knowledge, not essentially memorization although some ability to remember is required.

✔ The polymath is also a poet, a composer, an artist, or a novelist perhaps.

✔ The basic principle of intellectual freedom is to be able to buy any book you like.

✔ Polymaths strive for the freedom to read many kinds of difficult books.

✔ Perhaps this is why most polymaths prefer bookstores to libraries: many of the books they buy take a long time to work on, perhaps years.

✔ Polymaths do not like to be forced to do anything.

✔ They may be reading their own book in class instead of what the English teacher wants them to read.

✔ But they usually catch up on their school work in the nick of time because they read and write well.

✔ Polymaths often find what they are forced to learn in formal schooling to be trivial.

✔ Polymaths often try teaching.

✔ There is no better way to learn than to teach others.

✔ Polymathic people are often found hanging out in universities.

✔ Polymaths often find themselves in an entrepreneurial position.

✔ Many polymaths and other intellectuals are sub-optimal in terms of making money.

✔ The Polymath attempts realize our full potential.

✔ It is not only for the mind but for the soul.
 
✔ It is an advocate of sanity and rationality.

✔ It is also an advocate for the arts, for beauty and virtue, for truth and  reason. 
1) Read the Encyclopedia for general knowledge.
2) Complete the Dewey Project.
3) Become a master in at least three areas.
10,000 hours of study in each area.
Be a Life Long Learner.

General Science
 = 9905.5 Hours

45 Advanced Cardic Life Support
45 Basic Trauma Life Support
45 EMD Certification
135 Pharmacology
90 AEMT Hospital Clinical
180 AEMT Clinical
180 Advanced EMT
135 Advanced EMT Lab
90 EMT Specialist Clinical
90 Medical Terminology
180 EMT Specialist
90 EMT Communications
180 Intro. to Microbiology
180 Computer Assem. Programming
180Calculus 2
180 Applied Statistics
180 Calculus 1
180 Calculus 2
180 Intro to Computer Science
180 Applied Statistics
180 Basic Economics
180 Intro. to Engineering
180 Intro to Basic Programming 
180 Microcomputer Data Base
135 Digitical Circuits 2
Fundamentals of Nursing Lab
Fundamentals of Nursing
180 Pathophysiology
135 Pharmacology
180 Analytic Geom/Calculus
90 EMT Basic Refresher
180 Pre Calculus Math
135 Math for Drug adm.
135 Fortran IV
180 Analytic Geom/Calculus
180 Mechanics heat & Sound
180 Math Analysis
135 Intro to Logic
180 Human Anat./Physiology I
180 Fund of Electronics
90 Digital Circuts I
180 Math Analysis
135 Chemistry II
180 Human Anat/Physiology II
180 Contemporary Biology
225 Chemistry Theory
180 Intermed Alg/Plane Trig
225 Emergency Medical Training

High School
200 AP Biology 1 
200 AP Biology 2
200 Health Science 
200 Geometry 3
200 Chemistry 1
200 Chemistry 2
200 Geometry 1 
200 Electrical Occupation 1
200 Biology 1 
200 Electrical Occupation 2
200 Biology 2
200 Geometry
200 Electrical Science 1
200 Algeba 1
200 Electrical Science 2
200 Algeba 2 
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17.6 Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
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2.0 Pandemics in a shrinking world   Miriam Segall
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7.6 George’s Key to the Universe   Lucy & Stephen Hawkin
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8.8 Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman  Richard P. Feynman
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11.5 Edison, His Life and Inventions
by Frank L. Dyer
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45.5 added in
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Christian Studies
= 2958.2

135 Wisdom Literature
135 Christian Counseling
135 Romans          
135 Introduction to Literature  
135 New Testament Survey   
135 Pentateuch        
135 Church Music                 
135 Book of Acts    
135 Intro. to Philosophy  
135 Major Prophets 
135 Theology of Holiness              
135 Church Administration
135 Homiletics
90 Pastoral Care
90 Old Testament Theology
135 Old Testament Survey
135 Church History Survey
90 Spiritual Formation
90 New Testament Survey
90 Evangelism and Church
Growth
90 Leadership by the Book
90 Inductive Bible Study -
Genesis
135 Life of Christ
135 Wesleyan Theology
90 The Gospel of John
90 History and Polity
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5.5 Becoming a Contagious Christian
by Bill Hybles
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2.3 Power Through Prayer
by E.M. Bounds
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7.6 The Jesus I Never Knew
by Philip Yancey
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4.8 Understanding the Bible
by John Stott
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3.2 The Wounded Healer
by Henri Nouwen
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6.8 Through the Gates of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliot
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5.5 The Lay Driven Chuch
by Melvin Steinborn
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2.0 Secret Societies
by David Southwell
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2.8 Fish - boost morale and improve results
by Stephen Lundin
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6.3 Worship His Majesty
by Jack Hayford
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8.0 Loving God
by Charles Colson
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4.8 Christian Basics    
by John Stott
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5.7 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team  
by Patrick Lencioni
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3.6 Healing for Damaged Emotions  
by Dr. David Seamands
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4.2 I Married You
by Walter Trobisch
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7.2 Influencer - The Power to Change Anything
by Kerry Patterson et al
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2.4 Poke the Box
by Seth Godin
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8.8 The Hole in  Our Gospel
by Richard Stearns
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2.8 Do The Work
by Steven Pressfield
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4.0 Heaven is for Real
by Todd Burpo 
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5.1 Crazy  Love
by Francis Chan
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12.6 Lifehacker:
The Guide to working  smarter, faster & better.
by  Adam Pash & Gina Trapani
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4.0 Devotional Life in the Wesleyan Tradition
by Steve Harper
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3.2 The Knowledge of the Holy
by A. W. Tozer
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Classics Studies
= 1470

180 History of West Civ to 1815
90 Cont. World History

High School
200 American History
200 American Literature 
200 American History 2
200 Major British Writers
200 Creative Writing
200 Michigan History
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
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Mr. Wesley - An Intimate Sketch
by Rev. T. Crichton Mitchell
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
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A study in Scarlet 
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Daisy Miller: A Study
by Henry James
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The Legend of Sleep Hollow   by Washington Irvin
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A Christmas Carol 
by Charles Dickens
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Philosopher at Large
by Mortimer Adler
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How to read a book 
by Mortimer Adler
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Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
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The Great Conversation
by Mortimer Adler
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A Tramp Abroad
by Mark Twain
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Apology:
The Death of Socrates  
by Plato
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The Whole Five Feet 
by Christopher Beha
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The Autobiography of Ben Franklin 
by Ben Franlin
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A Great Idea at the time… Great Books
by Alex Beam
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Dracula 
by Bram Stoker
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
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Brave New World Revisited
by Aldous Huxley
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Jane Eyer
by Charlotte Bronte
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The Killers
by Ernest Hemingway
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The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Master Builder
by Henrik Ibsen
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Two Friends
by Guy de Maupassany
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A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
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Mowgli's Brothers  from The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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