Being a Renaissance Person in the 21st Century | Randy LaFoy | TEDxMahtomedi
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- In his TEDxMahtomedi presentation, “ Being a Renaissance Person in the 21st Century,” Randy explores the benefits of becoming a renaissance person.
Randy LaFoy is a jack-of-all-trades, has won local and national awards, is good looking, smart, a public servant, has been called a Renaissance Man - and is very humble. He has a wry sense of humor and is a life-long learner.
He uses Century College’s FAB Lab to invent stuff. He has been in 48 of 50 states, and 12 foreign countries. He has several sailing trophies, and hopes to start the restoration of a wooden rowing shell (pre-1960) this year. He published Kidiary, a Children’s Journaling book, as well as a Reporter of Data Privacy Opinions.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
I was born this way in 1977. I'm an artist, I sculpt, paint, tattoo, pierce, I compose music, I play piano, guitar, drums, cello, violin, I study physics, astrology have a degree in psychology, I speak 4 languages fluently besides English, I'm former special forces, a triathlete, I broke records in distance running, I'm still young as well. I just see it as if you put in the work to learn something you will.
Nice 👌 you're definitely my role model
your story is amazing, people like you truly inspire young students like me.
Can we Connect Brother?
Autodidactic polymath
Can you give some advice how you were able to learn all those things and as a whole just general advice for young people like me who don’t feel okay with just one thing?
Wow what a line - The ideas that you dance with may be making a difference 400 years from now.
Gold
i play guitar , professional painter , play flute , sing , make sculptures and a professional stock trader . I'm learning how to rap now . just be very curious about what you are learning and look at it from a 3 dimensional perspective , best and the very important part is trying out the things you learn , it will make you more curious .
Great
I don’t know about the three “dimensional perspective” but fully agree with trying things. Be curious. I too am a musician, a painter, photographer, studied psychology, love archeology, astronomy, wood crafts and design and develop websites with PHP, HTML, CSS and JScript languages which I learned on my own. Just try things.
I do too much and find it hard to work with others except for a grand idea.ironically my step grandfather was a Whalen, Robert Whalen actually. I learned many trades from him and he gave me my first tools. . He was a banker. My paternal grandfather was an engineer for Honeywell and developed gyroscopes. My maternal grandfather bought and sold livestock but drove a semi truck as well. I majored in electronics before the tech bubble. I've been a contractor through the housing crashes. I can do anything. When the oligarch's and corrupt destroy society my offspring will survive.
You lack scientific expertise
To become a polymath first you have to get ready to been called mad by the people
That is why I love Lewis Carroll's quote from 'Alice in Wonderland,' "WE'RE ALL MAD HERE!" I quote this to myself more than necessary. I live by it. And most artists are considered mad, so why not fully embrace it?
I'm a polymath. This guy makes good points and poor ones. Lose the S.M.A.R.T. goals and other structured nonsense. Conformity is stifling to genius. Let your mind explore the dynamic connections between everything. It is not meandering, it is the organic, quantum, unfolding of a complex but discernable universe. It exceeds the limitations of language, art, science and consciousness. Reality does not fit in boxes. Stop labeling, organizing, scheduling, and just do everything.
Car breaks? Fix it. Get sick? Treat it. Broken relationships? Mend them. Questions about God? Answer them. Physicality? Master it. Skill deficits? Overcome.
Master existence, fear nothing, be subjected to no destiny, conditioning, bias or posturing.
Be. Pure.
its not that you are special but that society has created structure for itself to guarantee its existence.
If you cant fit into that, you are normal.
Not special, just not a sheep because you are not supposed to fit into it. Its not alive, how can you?
What you described is a normal man.
Very rare thing.
@tiporari: Bravo! That's the best comment I've ever seen on youtube.
Beautifully said, sir!
Hmm you must be very smart like a Psychologist
Oh I just love that you suggest he gets rid of SMART and other structured nonsense. Yes! I thought this was going to be an interesting talk, but it wasn't really, at all. Your comment was!
What a great talk in an age of singular minded focus pushers.
Never could find out the name of what I wanted to be and when finding it the universe brought me this video. I am a performer/ dancer who is also an artist. I am also a motivational speaker. I am learning to play the saxophone and I want to learn more like languages etc. I am grateful for this video and I am training of not already to be a renaissance man
Great video. We are real and we are in numbers! more than we even think. Most people are generalist because its what humans are designed to be. Thank you for holding this speech
Thank you💛
I enjoyed this short presentation. I do disagree that widespread acknowledgement is a necessary element of a Renaissance man. Such people are among us, but their humility (a desirable, albeit not necessary, attribute) precludes publicity. The combination of their depth and breadth of knowledge and practice of all things human is recognized by those that know them.
Why didn’t he write a book on this ☹️ Brilliant work sir
Very good
amazing
It's a lonely place. I'm a Polymath, and I wish I could meet another one.
Isaac Newton would slap him in the face for these characteristics of being a polymath.
I really felt that brain fart when he tried to say characteristics😂
When? Time post?
Omg 😳 this is totally me!
good video
The tiny stage looks like it's for a stand up comedian.
Maybe he pursues that as a side career
The volume on this production is poor. Love the message, if one can hear it.
i am usually sensitive to such recording mishaps;
however witht this recording I found no such audio issues.
Call of duty ray
gun Lol
I wonder if INFJ's find it easier to be a reaissance person because we tend to make connections between highly different subjects or facts. I write music, like to listen to Neil Tyson DeGrasse. I enjoy interior decorating, have a cat, like to learn about nature's ecosystems, creatures, and plants. I practiced as a psych nurse and later as a substance abuse counselor. I like to study mythologies and different faith traditions.
Why the internet is a blessing and curse..
This guy is literally trying to purely say “main characters of our world, do the things that you SHOULD be doing.”. It’s as simple as that.
Super important due to ai
im watching this for school in quarantine. The hyatts way
me toooo
Maybe we go to the same school
@@pepop6922 hyatts?
Evie Winters yes, do you go to Hyatt’s?
@@pepop6922 yep i do
Financial savviness is a characteristic of a renaissance man/person? What is this guy talking about? DaVinci was a broke starving artist! What does money have to do with being a renaissance man? Also, universities are a disaster now a days. Just explore people!
I'm a broke starving artist with 7 kids. We live comfortably. We are blessed by God. My talents are from him. A true renaissance man should give all glory to God in what he does. I'm so blessed, I drive a Baptist church bus for my flock, and we're Catholics. I'm the architect and builder for my own mansion from my plans and its all in a town in Franklin County. How on earth would any of that be possible for a layman as my self? God alone!
leo had been rewarded after did many amazing things by rich Italian family.
This dude ain‘t a polymath
it doesn’t take one to know.
Agreed! This dude is on some good polymeth!
The sub optimal mind of this non polymath attempting to give description to polymathy is beyond banality lacking genuine insight & encapsulation of the all encompassing nature of polymathy which is a great deal more than the overlapping of skillset acquisition, polymathy is not merely something you do as all that is is autodidactism, true polymathy is in actual fact a simultaneous automatic experience, Da Vinci was right, there are indeed 3 classes of people, (1)Those who see, (2)Those who see when shown & (3) the majority (the sub optimal minds) those who will never see, the problem though is really those who see when shown because whilst being able to understand a great deal with instructions (which must be underpinned by genuine curiosity) they will never achieve the automatic ability of those who see or indeed be able to comprehend the entirety of what is seen by those who do so within the first group, you are born with it or you are not, for example Nikola Tesla, neuro plasticity in rewiring your brain can help especially through the subconscious but for some individuals their wiring is a neuro divergent typeset at birth, the true polymath whom is savantly automatic, seeing & feeling naturalistically how all things connect to everything else which is beyond a banal intellectual exercise.
I agree with you, everyone can't be a Polymath, because the brain structure of a naturally curious person is different from the majority. But, everyone can try to expand their knowledge.
r/iamverysmart
I agree with you all. Not everyone is capable to become an actual polymath. This talk is for that kind of people so I found the title quite deceiving.
Do you frequent Mensa meetings by any chance
Agree, love your comment. Thanks for sharing
Too much preaching
Remember this when the world is on fire... We could of saved you
This got dark. Lol! 🤭
@@returnoftheromans6726 it was my pleasure 😇
i liked this talk up to 3:40,,,but it doesn't speak truth,, there were no renaissance persons, there were only renaissance men,,,there should have been women, but there wasn't any