THE THINKER: Spends an extraordinary amount of time thinking about very little. Usually seen at the head in a motionless pose like the famous Rodin statue. Not good at multi-tasking and to-do lists!
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or a bloke who has never played cricket, Egon Mikolajczyk is one hell of an all-rounder. But despite having never wielded the willow, there are not too many things that Egon has not attempted. In fact, it wouldn’t be pushing the truth too far to refer to Egon as a polymath, from the Greek word which describes someone as “a person of wide-ranging skills or great versatility and whose knowledge spans a significant number of subjects”. His list of achievements and interests is expansive but they have all come from very difficult beginnings. As Egon says, “I was made in Germany but born in Katanning to Polish/German parents who immigrated to Australia after World War II with very few possessions.” Egon’s father was a member of the Polish Army but after the invasion spent time as a German prisoner of war. “They came here with nothing,” Egon said of his parents, who went on to settle in Albany where Egon did his primary and secondary schooling. He must have been a very attentive pupil because, at the age of 16, he went to UWA where he gained a Bachelor of Science (maths) Degree and a Post Graduate Diploma of Computing. Then began a diverse range of employment opportunities which
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