# Polymath A polymath is a person who has attained a high degree of proficiency in several disparate fields, but not necessarily the highest degree of proficiency in any one field. Polymaths are especially prone to the [[Impostor syndrome]]. The effect gets stronger as one becomes more and more aware of all the details that are not known/mastered yet. People are either unconsciously incompetent, consciously incompetent, competent then reach various degrees of mastery.