Sheldor the Conqueror

[ricardo shillyshally]

So I think what came to define Sheldon as a character is also his downfall. He's a monopath,>'monopath. It means a person with a narrow mind, a one-track brain, a bore, a super-specialist, an expert with no other interests — in other words, the role-model of choice in the Western world.' Sheldon has an IQ, an inquiring mind, an eidetic memory; and yet he continually watches the same shows and films repeatedly in different formats. No way! I've only ever seen him read a geology book, Pride and Prejudice(out of spite), and maybe a couple of language books. Comic books. Yes you keep all that, but you devour the thousand classic novels, and great films of the world, that's the real education. He needed to become a polymath, not only to succeed in his own field, but to really fire up those neurons. ' Science, for example, likes to project itself as clean, logical, rational and unemotional. In fact, it’s pretty haphazard, driven by funding and ego, reliant on inspired intuition by its top-flight practitioners. Above all it is polymathic. New ideas frequently come from the cross-fertilisation of two separate fields. Francis Crick, who intuited the structure of DNA, was originally a physicist; he claimed this background gave him the confidence to solve problems that biologists thought were insoluble. Richard Feynman came up with his Nobel Prize-winning ideas about quantum electrodynamics by reflecting on a peculiar hobby of his — spinning a plate on his finger (he also played the bongos and was an expert safe-cracker)[quotes from http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/anyone-c...-polymath/. Richard Feynman, the real inspiration for Sheldon was a polymath. This show promotes two stereotypes; attractive women can't be smart, and intelligent men are socially and culturally retarded.