Friday, April 6, 2012

Actually, I'm NOT talented. I'm MULTI-TALENTED.

And like most multi-talented individuals, I have trouble focusing on any one area of study and practice for more than an hour or two at a time.

The world has yet to familiarize itself with the true social and psychological nature of multi-talented people like myself, the Howard Hughes, Syd Meads, Todd McFarlanes, Frank Millers, and Katsuhiro Otomos of the world. When in "training" and when I was taking art lessons at one point at the age of 17 or so, I recieved what was pretty much just about the most horrible advice a multi-talented person or student can recieve from an art teacher, or any teacher in school for that matter. "Pick one thing and be good at it. Don't be a Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing." If only I was dumb enough to fit that mold, I might be able to follow advice like that, but when you're multi-talented, you despise getting ANY and ALL advice that says only do one thing. Because multi-talented people know better than most (except maybe some pschologists and professionals), that when you're multi-talented, it's INCREDIBLY difficult to find a job, and basically IMPOSSIBLE to "just do one thing and be good at it". All my creative and intellectual heroes growing up (or at least a whole lot of them) were multi-talented, just like me. But they became famous because they found an outlet for their genius that was profitable, that was in tune with their multi-talents. NOT because they made themselves master just one thing.

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