The Art of Living Many Lives... Effectively

You're an Actor, I'm an Actor, and everywhere is an Actor. We all have roles to play in life, and we all live many lives.

How we convey those said lives comes down to our ability to communicate and market ourselves. We are told by society that we are meant to live only one role, and that our acting must be of that singular role.

Although as you know if you're reading this, we have many roles. From being a parent, to our job, our hobby, and even our next job or career.

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The "New Way", a shift in Culture

We've been told for so long that we have to embrace the mono-skill culture. That we need to be specialists, or cogs in the wheel. Fit into only one box, and that is just simply not true.

Over the past 20 years especially, there has been a return of the generalist mindset.

Entrepreneurs are prime example, but even more so are the creators in the Digital Renaissance.

The Tree Trunk analogy

As you get deeper into your skill, then the branches start to go out. In order to go even deeper, then you need to pull from other areas to gain a new angle.

Some people refer to Polymaths as multiple trees, and your attention is that of a squirrel jumping between the branches of trees. "Forests of Knowledge".

Being adaptable to Change

In the art of many lives, the skills it takes to explore many fields take adaptation to a whole other level. It is like being an actor, as Koe puts it, as you need to wear the mask of the expert. Eventually you become that expert through practice. Not through acting per se, but in some cases when you learn a new skill.

You need to learn how the expert thinks in that field, and adopt that mindset to gain a better understanding.

Failure is part of the process

However despite that mindset, there will still be times you failed. Either because you didn't know enough, or just simply due to circumstances.

That is okay, and people who live many lives often get really upset when this happens. As we don't have the stability of having just one role, and we think that we made the wrong decision of having many roles. That isn't the case, it is simply a normal fail in the process.

Thank you Koe Yeet, for a great video!

In life we are not meant to have just one role. We have our first job, the next, the job as a parent more than likely, and the job of an elder. Our jobs change simply due to aging at times.

Why can't our career jobs do the same? We end up playing different roles regardless.