40 Different Disciplines? - Explorations in Science

When I looked back, I originally estimated that I had done in-depth studies in about 40 different disciplines. I thought that it might be a good idea to fact check this. The following list is an attempt to list the disciplines I have studied.

So far, I have come up with over 100 different subjects. Not every subject I list can be classed separately as a “discipline,” but each of these has been studied in depth. I also think I am probably missing a few subjects. I have lost track of may of the things I studied.

As I look at this, I have to wonder when I ever had time to study all these subjects. First of all, I am 68 and I have had many years to work on this. The second reason is that I have spent hours a day reading, researching, doing analyses, thinking, etc. I have over 11,000 article citations and 2,000 book citations. I have been reading almost constantly. As I studied these disciplines, I collected links and put the links into Mind Maps in a mind mapping program called Freemind.

The process of mind mapping allowed me to learn these disciplines more efficiently. I could organize the literature by subject and also by date. When looking by subject, I could break the material down by sub-subject, and dive deeply into the areas I was interested in. I used the date ordered links to follow the progression of ideas from beginning to end.

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