For the past few months, I've noticed myself jumping from interest to interest in an unusually fast matter. In fact, I've felt I've always been this way for no particular reason.

Well, just recently, I encountered a survey to see if you're a "Renaissance Soul", or a jack-of-all-trades. I took the survey, and got shocking results: I am one...

Anyways, discovering that I'm like Leonardo Da Vinci & Ben Franklin made me feel much better about myself. I'll probably have to make lifestyle changes to cater for my mass hopping & honing each skill as I switch around.





Are you one too? Here's the survey(no, I did not write this survey):

-Do you find lots of different things "interesting"/ "worthwhile"?

-When you really understand how something works, where it fits, how to do it, do you lose interest in it?

-Do you hate the expectation that there's only one answer to "What do you want to be when you grow up?"?

-Do you find it more fun to think up neat ideas than to focus in on the details that make it actually happen?

-Do you describe yourself as a "dabbler"? a "dilettante?"

-Do you find it almost impossible to answer the question, "What do you picture yourself doing in five years?" in the singular? Find it almost impossible to do a meaningful long-range business plan?

-Do you have a hard time choosing?

-When you've figured out how something works, would you rather share that knowledge with others than become a specialist in one aspect of it?

-Did you have trouble picking a college? a major?

-Did you have no trouble picking a major but you didn't find yourself motivated to stick with that field much after college?

-Do you have a job that you can do but feel there's something more you haven't been able to identify?

-Is the idea of doing the same thing all your working life appalling to you? After even just a year or two, do you feel the itch to move on to something else?

-Do family members often say "Oh, X just hasn't settled down yet. S/he's always trying something different. I wish s/he'd just figure out something s/he's interested in and do it!"

-Do you have lots of unfinished projects and yet happily move on to starting something new?

-Do you distrust your own decision-making ability because you "definitely knew I wanted to be an X!" but that didn't hold your interest, and then you "definitely knew I wanted to be a Y!", but you got tired of that too, and then...




If 8 or more of the above questions applies to you, you might be one. But don't panic! Be proud of yourself! Really, generalists can be just as productive!


(I got the survey from here: [link])

PS: If my journal entry seem in anyway inappropriate, do tell me so I can remove it.