Allowing myself to be a generalist

...a great thing about freedom: we can allow ourselves to be generalists and be content to be amateurs [...] Long live the cult of the amateur. Get into everything. I am reading Escape Everything by Robert Wringham, and there are so many words that are hitting home. It is explaining many of my struggles and anxiety of living in this weird ol world. The quote above though, I have never heard said before, but the contrary has given me much cause of frustration and unneccessary feelings of worthlessness in my life. I have previously kicked myself for being a jack of all, master of none... wishing I had dove deep into one of the many things that have grabbed my interest. Though now, I am turning it on its head, and looking at it as a trait I am proud of. For it has given me agility in life, a gift of perspective from many angles, an ability to connect to people of all cultures. I can talk to a metalhead about the latest Cattle Decapitation album, a homesteader about the seeds they put…