Have you ever been asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Now if you had to guess, how old would you say you were when you were first asked this question?
the problem wasn't that I didn't have any interests -- it's that I had too many. This continued after high school, and at a certain point, I began to notice this pattern in myself where I would become interested in an area and I would dive in, become all-consumed, and I'd get to be pretty good at whatever it was, and then I would hit this point where I'd start to get bored. And usually I would try and persist anyway,because I had already devoted so much time and energy and sometimes money into this field. But eventually this sense of boredom, this feeling of, like, yeah, I got this, this isn't challenging anymore -- it would get to be too much. And I would have to let it go.
This pattern caused me a lot of anxiety, for two reasons. The first was that I wasn't sure how I was going to turn any of this into a career. I thought that I would eventually have to pick one thing, deny all of my other passions, and just resign myself to being bored. The other reason it caused me so much anxiety was a little bit more personal. I worried that there was something wrong with this, and something wrong with me for being unable to stick with anything. I worried that I was afraid of commitment, or that I was scattered, or that I was self-sabotaging, afraid of my own success.
If you can relate to my story and to these feelings, I'd like you to ask yourself a question that I wish I had asked myself back then. Ask yourself where you learned to assign the meaning of wrong or abnormal to doing many things. I'll tell you where you learned it: you learned it from the culture.
this question gets asked of us again and again as we get older in various forms -- for instance, high school students might get asked what major they're going to pick in college. And at some point, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" goes from being the cute exercise it once was to the thing that keeps us up at night. Why?
See, while this question inspires kids to dream about what they could be, it does not inspire them to dream about all that they could be. In fact, it does just the opposite,because when someone asks you what you want to be, you can't reply with 20 different things, though well-meaning adults will likely chuckle and be like, "Oh, how cute, but you can't be a violin maker and a psychologist. You have to choose."
A multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits. It's a mouthful to say. 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.
Now, let's say that you are, in your heart, a specialist. You came out of the womb knowing you wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon. Don't worry -- there's nothing wrong with you, either.
if there is one thing you take away from this talk, I hope that it is this: embrace your inner wiring, whatever that may be. If you're a specialist at heart,then by all means, specialize. That is where you'll do your best work.
to you I say: embrace your many passions. Follow your curiosity down those rabbit holes. Explore your intersections. Embracing our inner wiring leads to a happier, more authentic life. And perhaps more importantly -- multipotentialites, the world needs us.
この動画は、なぜ人は天職を見つけられないのかというタイトルの啓発的なスピーチです。簡単に言うと、人は幼い頃から大人たちに、「大きくなったら何になりたい？」と聞かれます。大人たちはかわいい答えを期待し、笑い、真剣に耳を傾けない。そして多くの子どものころに持っていた興味が、「大人になったら一つに絞らないといけないよ」というなんの悪意もない言葉によって子どもは無意識に絞っていく。そしてその絞ったものが、成長過程で考え方が変わったり、現実的に考えすぎて諦めたり、飽きてしまったときに、次の興味のあるものを探せないのです。なぜならもう一つに絞ってしまい、それを最終的には将来の職業として選ばなかったのだから。
これを「色んなことに興味を持ちなさい」を育てられたらどうでしょう？一つ目がダメでもまだ他にも興味があるものがあるはずです。一つに絞らずにすべて好きなら追いかければいいじゃないですか。職業は別に１つでなくていいのです。なぜなら、あなたはマルチタレントとしての才能を持っているのだから。
現に、色んな職業を持っている人達が世界にはたくさんいる。弦楽器職人であり心理セラピストの人、 雑誌編集者からイラストレーター兼事業家、兼先生、兼クリエイティブ・ディレクターに転向した人。大部分の子供達は こういう人たちの事を耳にしません。多くは、選択しなさいと言われるだけで、焦点の絞られた人生は社会で美化され、宿命とか天職とかいう言葉で崇められる。まるで、人は優れたものを一つ持って生まれ、この世でそれを果たすのだと、そしてそれを探し当て、それに人生を捧げねばならないというように。
ですから、このトークから１つ学んで頂きたいことは、自分の内なる資質を大切にしてほしいということ。あなたが真のスペシャリストならそれを全うすればいい。それがあなたの最高の仕事なのだから。しかし、内に秘めた情熱を大切にし、好奇心を追っていくつもの穴に入り込み、その好奇心の交差点を追求してください。内に秘める情熱を大切にすることが、幸せな本物の人生につながります。そして世界がそういう人達を必要としているのです。
自分なりの解釈でまとめてみましたが、思わず、「なるほど」と思わされるスピーチでした。子どもに関わることが多いので、頭に入れておきたい考え方ですね。「目指すのは、サッカー選手だけじゃなくていいんだよ」と。