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A friend once described me as a polymath. After I corrected him with anecdotes proving that my numerical skills don’t warrant the title of a mathematical superhero, he explained what it meant. From the Greek ‘Polymathes’, meaning ‘having learned much’, my friend had been trying to tell me that I know lots of stuff about different things. I prefer ‘Jack-ess of All Trades’ but it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

Polymath Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) said that “a man can do all things if he will.” Embodying a basic tenet of Renaissance humanism that humans are empowered and limitless in their capacity for development, this concept led to the notion that people should embrace knowledge and develop their capacities as fully as possible. Hopefully, Leon wouldn’t mind a woman also giving everything a try. So I am.