I love this video, really very inspiring!! The phrase "it feels like sifting through a hoarder's house" was very funny and true in equal parts jajajajajaj. I'm glad this channel is in your "passion projects", that's a very good thing. And it's great that you also show parts like this and the content is genuine/real! (Seeing yourself overwhelmed even though you do so many things, made me remember what Sylvia Plath wrote, which I feel is something that can happen to us often and that represents us perfectly at certain moments: “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited”). Keep it up! :D
Aww thanks!! Love that you quoted Sylvia Plath! From the book The Bell Jar, there's a scene where the main character imagines herself sitting in a sitting surrounded by fruit, each representing a different path in life she could take, and her starving to death because she can't bear to choose just one. I read that before learning about multipotentialites and scanners and all and yeah, it felt so real and relatable!
F O R E S H A D O W I N G Anyway, the stepping back from everything is a good move. I actually kinda jumped when you mentioned going through all your ideas and so on is like going through a hoarder house. I have been cleaning out two hoarder houses since last year, and it's very easy to get very, VERY frustrated when trying to organize things. Best solution? Step away for a bit, and your brain will come up with a new strategy on its own, and it works out fine. Like the silt being stirred up in a pond, stop stirring and it quickly becomes clear again. I had a similar thing happen to me a few months ago: I was thinking about many, too many, things I want to pursue or need to do (well, still ruminate on them a bit, unfortunately) and it was too much to process. My mind/body decided that was enough and I just stopped. Stopped worrying, stopped thinking (within reason), stopped reading as much, just basically went on an information fast. It didn't take long, and either new or buried ideas gently floated to the surface, just like that. It's like cutting through the static, to use another metaphor. Thank you for the video.
Congrats on your degree!!! I loved this video so much! I totally relate with the escapism with gaming. That was me with Fortnite a couple of weeks ago.
It's so helpful sometimes though!! Happy that there are sooo many kinds of video games, too, we can never get bored and they're always there waiting for us when we need em :)
I agree. This happened to me when I i was in highschool. The previous years, i didn't find it difficult until my second last year. Once It was my second last year, I went all in studying and going through my strict timetable. However, after a few months, I began breaking down because it was too overwhelming to cope with. Balancing your studying with business and hobbies. Because of that, I started distancing myself from my friends and stopped hanging out which made things worse. That's why I believe that you should rank how PASSIONATE you are about something, since I later realized only in my last year of highschool that half the extra curriculars didn't matter and was only there for show.
Ohh yeah! That's important, too! Maybe having alittle "passionate scale" we can use for our pursuits, to keep track of how much we're getting out of them and whether or not we need ot keep pushing through or take a step back.
This multipotentiality got me everywhere i wanted, but at a point, it seems like i have bumped into a quandary. One of my solutions is to actually have all kinds of disciplines that i enjoy studying focusing on one particular big problem. In that way i can be sure that i'm productively managing them. The only person that can control me is me. Being a renaissance man is a gift, but at the same time it seems like entering a laboratory with highly precisely engineered instruments and having no clue of what you can do with them. If i were to choose videos that could demonstrate my lifestyle, your vlogs would do the justice.
Many people with this personality type say the same thing: feels like a gift, but a curse at the same time. I think society does so much to convince us that we don't fit in, too, so we lose confidence in ourselves!
Really appreciate these videos! I'm definitely interested in a lot of things and a bit of a multi-potentiate but also have ADHD so have bad executive function a lot and feel like I achieve very little. Sometimes I feel a lot like I've denied myself the things I love by trying too many things so really appreciate the message that you can sustain multiple things but also acknowledge burnout and when a change is needed.
Yes! ADHD and having a multi-passionate personality type go hand in hand in many cases haha. I get the same way, I focus too much on a ll that I haven't done instead of what I have done, and it drives me to dark places. One book I read recommended keeping a little "small wins" journal where you write down all the things you've done, even as small as "Got up and exercised!" I've been trying to make this a habit and it helps a lot :))
i can relate to this so much, have passion for many things and pursue relentlessly over a period of time and get burned out. feeling disorganized sometimes, too many ideas, i was into music making ( yt channel)since early this year, now slow down a little, into tennis group s/ friends, play piano to relax , i do define yt music as passion projects
Yes I"m the same!! The disorganization of ideas is seriously stressful. But it's all a process and the more we learn about ourselves and accept our nature it'll get better :)
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