Carol Burt
2 min readOct 7, 2021
Photo by Lance Grandahl on Unsplash

I’m just saying

How much chutzpah does it take to call oneself a polymath? More than I possess, that’s for sure. I’m pretty cheeky, but a polymath?

Yet I notice many people include in their profile the information that they are a polymath. Wow. We’re in distinguished company here on this platform. Act respectable, everybody.

Do they know Leonardo Da Vinci was considered a polymath, as was Nikola Tesla, Ben Franklin, Aristotle, and…

Carol Burt

Former print journalist, former mayor, retired law enforcement officer. Writing about politics and government along with random personal essays.