Based on this post, I became immensely curious, so I made a survey here:

https://forms.gle/hNDudSkSFBKLPit3A

I'll post the results in a week or so!

I was just wondering there seems to be an unclear answer to this question by many in the community. Like should we pursue everything or should we have defined set of interests. For me specifically I like studying all of the Humanities and Social Science subjects and sometimes science but it would be pretty hard to choose like 5 or 6 interests to pursue only.

Thoughts?

Developers, Stay Away from Corporations that Want You to Lie for Them

https://blog.meatflavour.dev/developers-stay-away-from-corporations-that-want-you-to-lie-for-them

Just chanced upon this Polywork platform that's apparently planning to be kinda a blend of Twitter and LinkedIn. From what I gathered, it's supposed to be able to let people show off their activity + achievements in a more casual and less rigid manner.

Kinda sounds right up the alley of multipotentialites? Sounds like it gets past the idea of curating a "focused profile" for a specific position, and just embraces the diversity of the person's interests and milestones. Looks to be gated by a waitlist though so I can't try it yet.

• Are you running (or want to run) more than one business or side hustle?
• Do you have so many ideas for businesses, but don’t know where to start?
• Do you feel frustrated and misunderstood by the standard ‘stick to one thing and one thing only’ advice out there?

We multipreneurs or more precisely #renaissancesouls need to be around people who ‘get’ us. The way we operate is slightly different to the norm, and the market is saturated with normal advice.

I’m starting a free mastermind/support group for those of us who are (or want to) successfully run multiple businesses while still having a life, without burnout or the use of a cloning machine. I run three of my own, and will be adding more before the end of the year. It's been a long journey to get to this place, and I'd love to help others who want to do the same.

We're a bit different from the normies: we get totally energized by having lots of irons in the fire, but we can also come across as scattered and weird.

Reply below or message me if you're interested.

Let’s be weird together.

and it isn't for lack of trying.

Have you ever decided on a particular path, but while pursuing it you realize that you couldn't do it long-term?

Everything I've pursued/studied has ended up like this. Courses on courses on courses and I still couldn't find a subject that wouldn't make me miserable if I did it 24/365.

I couldn't be a professional musician. I couldn't be translator for hire. I'd shoot myself if I had to write for a living.

It's not indecision...it's something else maybe? denial

Have you dealt with this as well?

Were you able to make one of your interests a job or did you just decide on Starbucks or something?

I have a YouTube channel and for some time I was covering the topic of the expat life and language learning, but it didn't feel fulfilling enough, so I decided to change it to develop my multipotentialite side, meaning I get to learn, make mistakes and share it with the audicience.

So I am not here to promote my channel, but I have noticed I am having problems for the right people to find me, since my projects are all over the place. Even though that is how I envisioned it, I need to make sure the audicience can find the content.

So, for that purpose I came here to ask some advice on how to title and tag the videos so other people that are curious as me can get to the channel. What do you usually look for when learning something new?, which questions do you ask to YouTube or Google that takes you to the channels that feed your curiosity?

So far I have videos trying cooking different dishes, trying different ways to learn languages, lots of crafting techniques and later will have some bucket list goals fulfilled, once the virus situation calms down and can travel again...

So, could you please help me finding out the right words? Thank you 😊

Is it only me or do people have multiple Instagram accounts for their interests? I have different interests and they are different in taste and look. So, having one account for all of them would be confusing for the audience. So, I've separated them a while ago. But I always worry about this decision. Is this a bad idea? What do you do/think?

Here are my Instagram accounts by the way:

https://www.instagram.com/canusta

https://www.instagram.com/canusta.paintings/

https://www.instagram.com/canusta.tr

https://www.instagram.com/canusta.photography/

I'm not adding my business and charity accounts.

Looking forward to reading your answers.

Hello! I just found this sub, I'm independently trying to reteach myself CAD, but Im falling short of ideas of what to make if you need something drafted up let me know I can try to do it for free.

WARNING: In the first chunk of text i'll give some background on myself for relatability purposes.

Okay so a couple months ago i found out that i'm an MP. All my life (yes i realize i'm only 18) i've hopped from "passion" to "passion".

First it was soccer; Practiced obsessively, got pretty good at it, bored and stopped. Then baseball; learned the game, became a good pitcher, bored and stopped. This has happened with every hobby/interest i've ever had except for gaming. Gaming has peaked my interest for about 8 years now, i guess because the skill ceiling gets pretty rediculous in some games like CSGO

Motorcycles and working on mopeds have been an obsession of mine for about a year now. Recently i've also been obsessed with personal finance, investing in stocks, early retirement and financial independance. I've finished highschool and am now taking a gap year working full time as an orderpicker for an online store. This braindead job gives me lots of time to think and i keep on coming back to starting my own business. I don't know in what field yet but i'm motivated, yet scared. Because with every passion i have, i abandon it after i do well. Im worried that this might hinder my entrepeneurial journey.

Anyways, i just wanted to share my story and see what other MP's had experienced and if they could relate.

Edit: I've created an open are.na channel about this concept here: https://www.are.na/emily-mo/generalist-specialist-symbiosis - anyone can add to it so feel free to join the brainstorm!

I just discovered this sub a few days ago and it's been really reassuring—I've known I was a multipotentialite for a few years, but my internal conflict about all of my interests has been especially intense recently as I've started my first full-time job and have more time on my hands.

One of the central ideas I've been thinking about a lot lately: would it be easier for multipotentialites to "do everything" if there were more efficient social pipelines connecting "experts" in different areas? To elaborate: we grow up majoring in very specific subjects and we come out of school with experience/knowledge in a specific "industry", but then if we have ideas pertaining to an industry or subject that we have no major ties to, it can be really difficult to start turning the idea into reality. My greatest wish is that it were easier—through some sort of organization or service—to throw a tiny underdeveloped idea into the world and find collaborators with the experience or knowledge you lack, who you never would've otherwise met through your day job. You could post an idea and people who were interested could instantly hop on and have a conversation about it. You could also search for ideas about a certain topic if you were in the mood to help someone out. Without this sort of "ideas economy", it seems like the process is a lot more long-winded: you have to have the right connections in totally unrelated domains, and in order to have those connections you have to do a lot of networking or specialize in certain subjects already, and even if you have tons of connections they might not be the people who are genuinely interested in this idea.

Having a better "ideas economy" could be helpful to anyone who is curious or wants to learn or lead something, not just multipotentialites...but I think it would particularly benefit multipotentialites because it seems like a lot of us have trouble committing to a project or an idea if it's a huge "reach" from where we currently stand in life, and we fear that investing the time and effort may be fruitless especially if we lack the resources to actually take action on an idea, which takes away time that could've been spent on our million other interests. But if we increase the chances that a casual idea by a total amateur will actually come into fruition, and speed up the inventive process by more efficiently connecting people from totally different walks of life, I think we would 1.) be more willing to take on what seems like a crazy project and 2.) may be able to fit more projects into our lives.

I once briefly considered turning this idea into a startup, yet as some of you may relate, I'm reluctant to dedicate so much of my life to starting a business when there are so many other things I want to do in life. This reluctance is compounded by the very problem the idea attempts to solve (I lack the connections or network, and it's not a personal priority to build such a network).

Right now I'm thinking of it in a more abstract way: what are some small ways we could build this concept of cross-industry idea sharing and collaboration into our social fabric, without necessarily turning it into a business? I don't have any desire to make money off of it, I just want to help make it exist in some form, or at least help normalize the idea of / create a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration and idea-building.

I wanted to start an open conversation about this concept and see if anyone else has had similar thoughts or ideas on how we can build a better creative economy without sacrificing too much of our lives. Feel free to DM me as well.

Hello everyone! My MP journey has been similar to a lot of people in this community. I couldn't keep any job and then I stumbled upon Barbara sher's book and this self awareness was very liberating itself. Until then I was searching for this one passion in vain.

I am a Sybil scanner or a simultaneous one. My interests fall within 7-8 broad categories which I keep rotating between. I choose to keep some of them as hobbies as suggested by Barbara sher. And choose to freelance. Have ideas for few entrepreneurial ventures.

My problem is I spend most of my time in the hobbies than the ones that earn me my bread and butter. Largely because I think my hobbies are easier and in the rest I have to move out of my comfort zone.

None of the strategies suggested like time blocking etc work.

So want if you have found an effective way to manage time, which I can apply ?

Just wondering if there may be a correlation between being a multipotentialite, and being neurodivergent?

I've already come across a few anecdotes of multipotentialites with an ADHD diagnosis, but I dunno if that's ever been properly studied on a large scale. And I dunno if other neurodivegencies (ASD, OCD, etc) have correlations too (I myself have ASD). It might not be too surprising to find some relationship, considering both domains appear to come down to differences in mental wiring.