[geocrasher]

There's a site called https://puttylike.com/ that calls it a "multipotentialite" and in the gal's Ted talk she makes us out to be victims. That, I don't like- but I do like the premise of most of what she's saying otherwise. Being a generalist only means you get to explore whatever's fancy today, and because you've defined yourself as eternally undefined, nobody generally cares.

[juped]

It's easy to feel like a victim when you learn really quickly, are very good at a wide variety of different areas, and languish in poverty and debt because the only way to get non-marginal employment is 10 straight years of the exact same specific thing that doesn't even have 2 years of learning to be wrung from it.

[merlinsbrain]

If Wapnick’s work resonates with you, you might enjoy Barbara Sher’s Refuse to Choose. [0]

Sher is the author who “coined“ the “scanner” term.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287818.Refuse_to_Choose_

[froh]

I don't get the victim part.

https://www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_...

Emilie Wapnick is very positive and encouraging to allow yourself to love doing several things.

The only cautious part is about 'culture' focusing on specialization, and not encouraging the pursuit of seemingly unrelated paths.

Is that what you were referring to?

[em-bee]

victims of what?

[geocrasher]

Victims of "the system" that prefers specialization.