I wrote this on June 5th of 2007 in my journal:
“My mom bought me this book about how to succeed in business, and I haven’t even gotten twenty pages into it before the writer is telling me that I need to specialize in something and not do too many different things. That sounds so boring. How can anyone be passionate about just one thing?”
I still go back and forth about this condition of being a good at a bunch of things instead of being awesome at one thing. Is it good? Is it bad? Does it make me look talented, or more like a flake?
This past week, I was on vacation. I wrote very little, surprisingly, but I did learn how to knit. I feel bad bumping hobbies and pastimes around sometimes, especially ones to which I want to give priority, but I’m going to get a warm and very green sweater out of it. So if I didn’t write about how beautiful the sky was on Thursday night in my journal because I was practicing my knit stitch instead, will the world still turn?
I think it might.
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Britt Breu said:
Welcome to a wonderful and very addictive pastime, Lindsay. I schedule a knit break in my day between writing periods. A little mind wandering and happy stitching does every writer well!
July 29, 2008 @ 9:52 am
Lindsey Anderson said:
I will simply just have to keep up my marvelous juggling act of favorite pastimes.
It’s good to see a fellow writer/knitter out there!
July 31, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
leafless said:
Specialization is not always a good idea. Comparative advantage is a better and more useful concept.
August 1, 2008 @ 12:54 pm