With all the emphasis these days on what steps you can take to become successful and what not, there’s bound to be an increased sense of guilt for not being a high achiever. I’m not sure the self-help industry is doing any favors in this regard, either. It seems to be getting more common for people, youngsters especially, to think less of themselves if they aren’t excellent at something or stand out in such a way that’s very visibly obvious to the masses. I think a lot of people would agree with this when I say it, but have a hard time living it, and that’s really unfortunate. Thus, one’s worth would be level with their achievements and I hope most would agree that it’s very unhealthy to value achievement over character or virtue. If anything, it runs the risk of being impractical, but that’s different from being wrong and I’ll speak more on that in a little bit.īut as far as I can see, for someone to disagree with that, they’d be well-conditioned to think that life isn’t worth living if you’re not busy mastering something. It’s an interesting question to me because, on a philosophical level, I find it very hard to think of how it could be inherently wrong to have a lot of interests and dabble in a lot of different things. Should I be more concentrated and less saturated whilst spreading myself a bit too thin, so to speak? I want to do so much, and I like so much, but that's at the expense of vigilantly focusing and zooming in on one endeavor. QUESTION: “I’ve been saddling on the fence about my tendency to dabble in many endeavors and contemplating on whether it is indeed a good or bad thing. We’ve looked at this a bit before, but this one has a different twist. Our asker if on unsure about whether it is good or bad to live a life full of dabbling versus a life full of focus. Not thoughtful in the sense of doing thoughtful things for people, God no, but thoughtful in terms of questioning things deeply. We’ve got a question on the slab that I like as I find myself feeling sorta thoughtful today. I’m really thankful to all of you for being here today for what we came here to do – give some advice. Listen to Greg narrate this post on whether to dabble in endeavors or focus on one thing on Episode 224 of the podcast Optimal Living Advice.
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