You’re going to too many meetings. If Michelangelo did as many as you, he’d never have been a master.
http://predictablesuccess.com/blog/if-picasso-had-your-schedule-wed-never-have-heard-of-him-redux
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
–Thomas Jefferson,
How does a renaissance person think? Here’s one psychologist’s thought:
“people who are high in both thinking style are Renaissance people. They have the brains of scientists and the sensibilities of poets. In other words they have the positive features of both thinking styles and do not have their negative features because they are kept under control by the other thinking style.”
For more, check out the whole post-
http://www.creativitypost.com/psychology/how_renaissance_people_think
What kind of side-projects do successful executives work on? Polymath ones of course!
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/292434/pet-projects-of-tech-execs