The Issue With Being A Multipotentialite

Comparison syndrome and how it affects multipotentials is something that is very familiar for me and I want to give you my view on what are some strategies I'm practicing to overcome comparison syndrome as a multipotentialite

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🖖 Hey! I'm Enrico and on this channel I go behind the scenes of tech. I'm a tech Product Manager, builder of digital stuff, YouTube aficionado and overall meme connoisseur. I am also a rare Italian who doesn’t know how to cook.

[Cah-Games]

This was an eye opener for me. I like having a lot of interests, it keeps life interesting, but my problem is that these interests shift pretty quickly, so in the end I can't manage to get really good at something and I feel like a failure because of comparison syndrome. Damn it!

[alexk]

For me the problem is not that I'm not happy because I compare myself to the best people in many different fields, I know that I'm not as good as they are and it's OK with me. The problem is that I feel like I could've achieved great results in some of those fields, but I simply don't specialize enough and, as a result, do not excel at anything! I simply don't know what to focus more on, too many different interests are tearing me apart. And I simply wanna be great at one thing, but I don't know what that thing is

[dodecadumpling]

This video is absolutely incredible! This topic is so rarely talked about! And on top of that, the video is so beautifully created! Love this channel!

[jb]

In English we have a term "Renaissance man" for somebody who is very good at a multitude of different abilities. Think Leonardo da Vinci.

[devidaskgodse]

I have been taking therapy for a while and persistently hold unrelenting standards of work from myself as well as from others. Your video made me realise the reason behind it. I have the obsession to have every piece of work going through me be compared to the best ones. It comes from a desire to excel at everything that I can be. I'm not sure how to solve it, but just knowing that where it came from gave me a sense of relief. As they say, once you have clarity, the problem dissolves itself! I can't thank you enough for making this video.

[YouCanDoAnythingYouSetUrMind]

Thanks man! I really needed this. My key takeaway from this was that anyone can be extremely successful, but a few people get to the spotlight. So why not strive to become the best, even if you’re the only one to experience the success? It should matter to you, and You are the only person that matters, after all.

[kawaii_princess_castle]

Great idea with the journaling exercise! One thing is to be curious about different disciplines the other is to be an expert at them! To be an expert you need years of study and experience! For me, the fact that one needs to work in just one field kills the playful curiosity of knowing more about that field because now it becomes an obligation and not a freely want to know more just by the sake of knowing more ( intrinsique motivation)

[mamf]

Multipotentianility, a gift that is a curse

[cirecrux]

It's almost uncanny how all your videos have to do with something I was just thinking about. Keep up the great work!

[purplewave]

Oh this is what it is, I couldn’t find what I was, definitely not ADHD, question is, how is this an advantage if I seek to be the top performer in everything I do, yet after a short while (months) I end up moving on, I went from trading, to biology, to quantum physics, philosophy, rapping, dancing, soccer, psychology, construction, etc and I know the basics and I did learn in all these but ended up moving on. Can’t wait to know more, not in a hurry thankfully, and definitely not an expert

[Slumberprince]

Depression for me happens when I open myself up to new skills and get excited to try, then I level out. I go back to my comfort zone. I've lumped my interests into a single category (artist/ craftsmen) and decided that much of the outlying skills are for my pleasure and leisure.

[germanflores]

You just read me to filth 😂 LOVE THIS IS MY LIFR

[nope]

Follow the best, because they have the best advice, but realize their skill is practiced with many hours.

[devilichus]

I am into Music production (experimental and genre flexible) and playing a few instruments, making every kind of brutal and clean vocals. Writing story, poem, lyrics and lore creation, Traiditional Art, Digital illustration, graphic design (The visual Art is my main field I am more like advanced on concept design and paintings ) I will soon start to learn using 3D softwares more productively and better coding along the way. I love creating my own stuff all the time. I have an ability to observe and interpret, learn quickly. Among all those skills I found my passion as creating concept artworks for the games the main focus is there. But being able to create music giving concerts around my city is also a great activity to have. Or recording and mixing my own music in my home studio. Anyway whatever you do find your main passion and take it to the center and go more focused on that while developing in others more slowly and gently to guarantee you can monetize them either if your first plan doesn't work or just for the sake of learning.

By the way you can listen our melodic death metal band Grumpic Disease's debut album The Ancient Cure on spotify. I'm doing the vocals and I guarantee it is a tasty home recorded album. 😂

[wasabiginger]

For me, “luck” reveals one’s belief that the world is full of “accidents”. Once I worked on my personal world view & spiritulity … I realized neither luck or accidents exist … because I moved into a place with myself of seeing how my life was in sync with all of creation … and whetther I found myself in a place I didn’t like or was wow soul purpose … BOTH were showing me what my soul wanted to learn next. But each to their own beliefs!

[werewolfradio]

The 'why' is the most important question you have to ask yourself if you are a multipotentialite. It is the main premise for every interest you pursue. it is always one.

[blackcitadel]

Nice 🔥. For me the hardest part is to manage the time to work on each of them.

[Hexdus]

The multiple interests personality comes pre-installed with ADHD. How high the chances might him not being high on the Adhd spectrum ?

[ileanaprofeanu]

the way I like to think of myself is as "jack of all trades, master of none" and I think it's a great way of thinking to stop worrying about any mastery and just enjoy what you're doing and what you ARE achieving instead, after all, this was the pact from the beginning, "master of none"

[kasratabrizi]

I fully agree with your video! I thought about this myself (I am also a multipotentialite). I know from myself that I have a lot of talent and potential (as a kid, I wrote stories, poems, drew, played the violin, built stuff with legos, ...) but it got destroyed, sabotaged because of where I grew up. My parents are from Iran and they immigrated to Belgium in a small town.

Now, in Belgium people are not so open minded, very closed, they embrace mediocrity (meaning anyone that tries to stand out or has a different way of thinking, gets ostracised and punished). That mentality in combination with the fact they are also extremely racist and I got discriminated a lot as a kid and adult, it completely broke me and created chronic stress and depression which just completely ruined the natural flow of expressing myself and reaching self realisation.
Now I am 35, I still have that creativity and energy to learn but I constantly get anxiety because my mind learned from passed experience that creativity and being myself is not a good thing for my survival and I still struggle with it. I mean, imagine Steve jobs or Bill gates grew in Belgium, do you really think they would create Apple and Microsoft and take on the world? The environment is a huge factor and a lot of people don't realise that. So yeah, If I would have grown up in LA, maybe I would have been a totally different person and may have succeeded.

It is not fair but what can we do about it?