Juan Arroyo

Readings.

Meditations on the books that shape how I think, and short spoken meditations recorded across the last months. Dated as I wrote or recorded them, lightly edited for clarity, kept close to how they first came out.

Spoken meditations

Out loud.

Short-form scripts recorded and rehearsed as spoken pieces, kept here beside the reading meditations because they belong to the same practice: thinking in public, one page at a time.

21/02/26

On polymaths

Polymaths are rare. After the last decades of specialization and automation, openness, integration and transferability of knowledge are the ultimate competitive advantage. What I mean by openness is being ready to overcome any challenge, being adaptable and not attached to the past. Flowing dynamically like water. Integration is taking concepts and abstractions from experience and intellectual education to solve complex problems in real life challenges. This capacity increases more than proportionally with the volume, variety and quality of information that you are exposed to every day. It is also enhanced by the real attention you give to these things in real life. Finally, transferability is thinking creatively using knowledge from one field to another apparently distant. The most important lesson from this habit is the realization, the consciousness, that unity is a fundamental feature of reality.