Office workers who work from nine to five may be tennis coaches, part-time photographers or even resident singers after work, leading a colorful life.
But recently I began to wonder, is it really harmless to pursue a wide range of interests, and will it achieve nothing?
A wide range of interests ≠ versatile, not every interest is worth calling a skill.
For example, those hobbies written casually on your resume are probably just written casually and can't be any economic pillar. I once met an applicant who said that he had mastered Cantonese. When someone asked him, he just said good morning ... and it was the gossip emotional section of the magazine that commented on his love of reading.
How many people who claim to love English can clap their chests and say that they are qualified for interpretation and translation in the company? How many people who say that they like painting really take picking up a brush as their daily homework? Real interest has flavor. Even if you eat and eat, you can dig flowers if you really put yourself into learning. Otherwise, you can't call it a qualified foodie even if you eat Haisai.
Give a casual start to all kinds of interests and keep yourself busy. It seems to be very efficient and fulfilling, but it is actually just self-comfort. I seem to know all the things I mentioned, but I don't know anything.
There is a word in Japanese called "give up halfway", which not only means giving up halfway, but also means incomplete and imperfect. This is really a terrible state, because if you really just give up halfway, it will be abandoned and you will forget it. But if I can't put it down in my heart, I will suffer-I obviously have so many specialties, why are the pearls covered with dust? So I felt sorry for myself and fell into a huge contradiction.
It takes time to cultivate interest, and inattention seems to have become a common phenomenon. We are all stingy to invest time in our own interests. I don't have the patience to read a slightly longer article, and all kinds of hot spots go with the wind and spend every day in useless busyness.
At the beginning of the new year, I think the 30-day plan is a good idea, which means learning something new every month. I did implement it three times in the first quarter. Near the end of March, I couldn't come up with a plan for April. It doesn't matter. Give me some time to think. If you cultivate interest for the sake of cultivating interest, I'm afraid it's putting the cart before the horse. What I need more now is to polish an interest into a skill. Otherwise, we will fall into the above misunderstanding.
Doing one thing well is better than doing many things. So it is right to have a wide range of interests, but wrong is the attitude towards interest. Never let good things go bad and accomplish nothing.