Am I a Wonder-woman, stupid, or just dexterous?
As I compose this Story, I am multi-tasking or switching between 3 activities.
(1) I am enjoying listening to David Attenborough’s “Life on Earth”, the audio version, via an Audible audio-book, as
(2) I also write this, plus
(3 +) I’m also doing “sundries”.
Sundries means checking out my 8 active WordPress blogs, my Facebook news feed, reviewing my Guidelines on using WordPress, and reading snippets of “The Science of Getting Rich.”
Perhaps I could describe myself as “a mad and enthusiastic scientist blogger who is on Facebook who loves David Attenborough’s works and wants abundance.”
But this, of course, would be just a tiny slice of the whole me. I do know that as far as my relationship to the world goes, that I love to be an active co-creator and to be “constructive” and to support others. Am I in fact, dexterous?
Maybe it is just that I, like many others, am a multi-potentialite. According to the “puttylike” website:
A multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits. Multipotentialites have no “one true calling” the way specialists do.
Yes, I do have empirical evidence to back up my claim to be dexterous or multi-potentialite … or sort of, if astrological science developed over eons of time apply. At the time and place I was born, 4 of the 7 “Planets” were in Virgo.
“Quackery” if you want it to be, but consider that the traits of Virgos are: planned, organized, meticulous, pay attention to detail, fussy, can be pedantic, can want perfection, high expectations of self, and loves information.
Well, all these attributes apply to ME. Other Star signs also may point toward being a multi-potentialite. The point is that we are made up of layers or combos and my Sun sign in Virgo matches the dexterous part of me.
Do I have too many fingers in one pie or too many pies? While I love to always be “constructive” in terms of making a good difference in this world, I have had to learn to put on the brakes, and to take breaks and not push myself too hard in my efforts to help others (called “efforting” which means “trying” too hard).
When I was in my twenties, I was once accused of trying things out and not finishing what I started. Even Yoda the Jedi Knight from Star Wars has advised us to: Do, there is no Try. This leads us to my definition of TRY.
TRY — attempt to do something and finish your attempt which is doing something, with either the result of accomplishing your mission OR finding that you need more time or more experience or more something, or just to “try another day or way” to fulfill your mission.
In my twenties, I tried to complete a Bachelor of Arts in South-east Asian Studies but found that the rest of my life was too stressful for me to devote the time needed to complete it. I withdrew from the program too late for the administrators to not grade me as a Fail for it, and for a long time after, I felt that I was a failure. Nobody told me that, not only babies and children naturally try things out, to see what works for them and what they like or don’t like or want, but adults do also!
Here are some other things that I have tried but not finished.
Aerobics classes which I paid for myself, but was too busy to go to most of the classes.
A Graduate Diploma in Education to teach secondary school students — which I ended because I was on a scholarship and would be indebted to having to teach for 2 years after (and I found that wouldn’t work for me, because teaching Science or English to kids twice my size who didn’t want to learn wasn’t my “cup of tea”).
A diamond painting of a Deer (it was supposed to have been a picture of Anna & Elsa from Frozen, but the seller sent me the wrong picture, one of a deer which is pretty complicated to do).
A Writing Course which a friend paid for, but which I didn’t ask for and Life was too stressful for me way back then when I was a teenager, to complete it.
Completing my first novel — I have outlined the entire plot and written 25 chapters but have ground to a halt with the ending, and I’m trying to get the courage up to just write any old ending and then re-visit and review and stew over it, and finish my story sometime!
Some things that I have completed:
A Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Biology, a Post-graduate Diploma in Social Research and Evaluation, volunteer work for the Activ Foundation, the Red Cross and the Ministry of Education, my driving test, setting up and running 8 WordPress blogs, taking notes and writing instructions in the workplace and using them for myself and sharing them with others, supporting my work colleagues and family and friends, and running jumble sales for the United Nations and for the Red Cross, to raise funds for Bangladeshi and Syrian refugees.
I suppose I could say in a bland manner that:
What I’ve completed out-weighs what I have started and not “finished”
But is anything ever really finished? What if “Life” is an ongoing journey, with no real finish line?
I will never let anyone call me “stupid” for pouring my being into multiple activities, or on the flip side, never let anyone attack me and call me scatter-brained, out of jealousy for my being dexterous and a polymath.
I suspect that by “there is no try” that Yoda meant to have faith in yourself and Do, even if you don’t accomplish your goal, because the trying is in the doing. When you have a goal, there is no such thing as “try” if trying means a half-hearted attempt with no real intention or with a weak intention to meet your objectives.
There is “try” if you are committed to the doing and if you look at trying from the viewpoint of the following synonyms:
- Do one’s best
- Endeavor
- Strive
- Aim
- Contend
- Have a go
- Make an effort
- Exert oneself
- Tackle
- Put oneself out and
- Go for it
There’s a balance between doing too much and not doing enough, and betwixt and between lies WHY you do what you do.
It’s well nigh time for me to start looking at what I have done, including what I have tried as part of doing, and to recognize that I have many interests, many skills, and abilities, and have completed and contributed a lot to human-kind or society.
To sum up, I think that in the sea of humanity, every one of us is a multi-potentialite of sorts — with various interests and skills and experiences. Nobody is stupid so don’t let anyone put you down for “trying” and not finishing. If you are grappling with being self-conscious about what you do, discard the thought right now that you are obliged to follow all of the social mores. Some of them are conveniences or frameworks for a few and not helpful to everyone, while:
“Every being in the Universe knows right from wrong”
[ quote from the movie K-pax ]
Be yourself, even if you do 3 things at once.
Some say I am mad running 8 WordPress blogs, which I do so because I love living, learning, researching, writing and sharing. I have a lot of stamina and unbridled enthusiasm, and maybe just to me, I am a Wonder Woman.
I am dexterous and a polymath and a multi-potentialite and to me I am wonderful.
And I think, so are you. Embrace all that you are.
Thank you for reading this. Your claps will be appreciated. Holding the mouse button down will generate a maximum of 50 claps. Thank you to Gelana for the inspiring Story about polymathy.
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