being multipassionate
The Brief: Stop specializing—live a multidisciplinary creative life
open.spotify.comIdentity formation = exploration + commitment
Things go wrong
Multipassionate Moratorium - refusing to commit for fear, continuous exploration, optionality
496 - How to Know What to Start, Continue, Double Down On or Quit
youtube.comOnce you reach a level of skill that people are willing to pay you for it you most likely aren’t gonna be the most passionate about it because you’ve excavated it. You spent so much time and resources and just dug it into the ground for people to be able to see that you’re worthy of it. Part of being passionate about something is the curiosity is that exploration Is that newness either in knowledge or in time. So recognize that when you are seeking to monetize a passion that it’s gonna go away to some degree not to all degree but some level of it you’re going to have to sacrifice so with that I think you should choose kind of a middling passion not something that’s gonna destroy you if You were if that passion were to leave. And it also needs to be something that you are good enough at right so it has to be like passionate for you to pursue but skilled enough for others to want you and yet meet that balance of interest/mastery.
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youtube.comYou don’t need balance, you need support.
Living in a mode of discovery, rather than assumption, it’s preferable in any situation
Christa Nicholson • The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
this is a MG, multipassionate's default. We just need to remember to frame it as such, instead of giving into conditioning and shame about our 'uncertainty'.
Our 'uncertainty' is really an advantage.
treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket. That is to say: think of your backlog not as a container that gradually fills up, and that it’s your job to empty, but as a stream that flows past you, from which you get to pick a few choice items, here and there, without feeling guilty for letting all the others float by.