術業有專攻 專攻真的很重要么？

一年多前在工作上接到一個非常規項目，在那之后的某些特定時刻，自己的潛意識里就發出一些聲音，“這項目專業性一點都不強，有用么，我是不是在浪費時間？”

盡管在工作上自己是個很愿意接受挑戰的人，特別是那些之前沒人做過的，越能激起自己的興趣。這項目也恰好是個pilot project, 但一旦意識到要做很久，又要讓我把它跟專業、職業綁在一起，總覺得很虛。

自己有時也在想，那為什么做一件不那么有專業性的事情會讓人覺得很虛? 為什么我更愿意偏向做一件專業性很強/更專一的事呢？

最近看了Emilie Wapnick的TED演講，給了我一個對這種虛從何而來比較合理的解釋；同時也帶來些新的思路。

The notion of the narrowly focused life is highly romanticized in our culture.

It's this idea of destiny or the one true calling, the idea that we each have one great thing we are meant to do during our time on this earth, and you need to figure out what that thing is and devote your life to it.

Exactly !

她接著稱那些被不同興趣吸引，又沒有那么“專一”的朋友們為multipotentialites.

A multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits.

It might help if you break it up into three parts: multi, potential, and ite. You can also use one of the other terms that connote the same idea, such as polymath, the Renaissance person.

Actually during the Renaissance period, it was considered the ideal to be well-versed in multiple disciplines.

Barbara Sher refers to us as "scanners." Use whichever term you like, or invent your own. I have to say I find it sort of fitting that as a community, we cannot agree on a single identity.

看到這一段時我就一下子想到挺久之前一篇業界大牛的推送，有一段很形象的比喻我記得特別深。

大仲馬說的那句：“歷史是什么？是我用來掛小說的釘子”，所以要多在墻上“釘釘子”，“釘子多了，可掛的東西就多了。

盡管我也知道Emilie Wapnick口中的multipotentialites是那些被這個世界不同的東西所吸引且一直在嘗試中的勇敢熱忱的好奇寶寶，定不是那些因為浮躁才會東張西望的銀（比如目前的我）；

但釘釘子理論和multipotentialites 會讓現在不定時引爆浮躁炸彈的自己靜下心。同時這也是自己很想走的方向，盡管long way to go ：）